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Renaissance Papers collects the best scholarly essays submitted each year to the Southeastern Renaissance Conference. The 2014 volume opens and closes with essays on historically based explorations of identity: the first on the circle of Jane Scroop in Skelton's 'Philip Sparrow', and the last on dogs and horses as symbols of national identity in early modern England. The heart of this year's journal is English drama, especially Jonson and Marlowe: there are essays on Puritan logic in Jonson's 'Bartholomew Fair'; grotesque sex in Jonson's 'Volpone'; the role of anti-Catholicism in the creation of Marlowe's 'Dr. Faustus'; and the relationship between puppetry and the Faust legend. Marlowe and Jonson also surface in two reconsiderations of their non-dramatic works; first an essay on Ovidian resonances in Marlowe's 'Hero and Leander', and second a reflection on Spenserian echoes in Jonson's 'Epode'. The next essay shifts to the poetics of religious literature, arguing for clothing as an important metaphor for renewal in Herbert's 'The Temple', and the penultimate essay addresses imaginative resources in the Martin Marprelate pamphlets

Obwohl die Geschichte der qualitativen Forschung schon mehr als ein Jahrhundert umfasst, erschienen die ersten Texte zur Bestimmung ihrer Methodologie erst in den 1960er Jahren. Der Aufsatz erforscht die Gründe für diese lange Verzögerung und fragt danach, warum die Soziologie, die sich so lange mit qualitativen Methoden und Techniken beschäftigt hatte, sich so wenig um die Ausbildung der Methodologie kümmerte. Nachdem er die Entwicklung der qualitativen Methoden und ihres Einsatzes in den gegenwärtigen Sozialwissenschaften skizziert hat, entwirft der Autor ein Bild der Zukunft qualitativer Forschung. Bei aller Vorsicht, mit der man solche Zukunftsszenarien betrachten sollte, kann man doch fünf mögliche Richtungen identifizieren: (a) die Formulierung zentraler Methoden; (b) die Entwicklung der Datenanalyse; (c) die Verbindung zwischen Computer und qualitativer Forschung; (d) die Notwendigkeit qualitativen Forschung in der multikulturellen Gesellschaft und (e) Folgen für die angewandte Forschung.

Considering such witnesses of the time as Shakespeare, Dante, Petrarch, Michelangelo, Machiavelli, Montaigne, More and Bacon, Agnes Heller looks at both the concept and the image of a Renaissance man. The concept was generalised and accepted by all; its characteristic features were man as a dynamic being, creating and re-creating himself throughout his life. The images of man, however, were very different, having been formed through the ideas and imagination of artists, politicians, philosophers, scientists and theologians and viewed from the different aspects of work, love, fate, death, frien

The present transformation of health and human services spells the end of the American welfare state paradigm. Its demise is foretold by the rise of for-profit corporations exploiting various social markets, the multiplication of human service professions, and the implosion of ideological liberalism. For two decades, these forces have reversed a half-century of federal social policy. A renaissance in social welfare could commence by seizing the opportunities implicit with devolution and privatization. So reformulated, American social welfare could reconcile the multiple demands of a diverse population and the opportunities of a technologically sophisticated economy.

Renaissance Man is a mechanised figure, with casts of the artist's face, hands and feet, assembled around an aluminium trough with moving limbs. Two versions were commissioned in 2017 by Greene Naftali gallery and Piper Keys (supported by Elephant Trust). The works were concerned with two main, related, research concerns. The first was to develop a 'compulsive' anti-aesthetic, one that would challenge a contemplative, and class bound mode of artistic spectatorship, and to eschew a professionally slick and conceptually refined type of contemporary art whose surfaces exclude material slippage. In this respect horror, humour and 'idiocy' (see Kenning, 'You Cannot Be Serious! Art, Politics, Idiocy') were employed to produce something weird, crude and unnerving. The second research concern was to undermine the idealized, humanist model of intellectual progress, represented by the male modern artist, with his technical prowess and creative assertion of selfhood, and in its place to assert something more abject, compulsive and machinic, closer to the decentred and sexually determined subject put forward by psychoanalysis. In the work Kenning imagines himself metamorphosed into a mechanised animal, on all fours, locked in a single repetitive movement. He is rendered into what Jacques Lacan has called, in a reversal of Cartesian ontology, a 'jammed machine' (Seminar II). The artistically debased genre of kinetic art enabled a method of production whereby Kenning relinquished control over an array of compositional effects, focusing on getting the mechanism moving rather than on formal concerns. The finished sculptures displayed a compulsive character, embodying a 'weird', unnerving, somewhat crude (anti) aesthetic through seesawing and hinging movements and accidental sounds. The effect of this was witnessed in audience reactions to the work, which ran from laughter to wonder, anxiety to offence (Dan Graham: 'it's the most offensive work in the show!')

Renaissance Man is a mechanised figure, with casts of the artist's face, hands and feet, assembled around an aluminium trough with moving limbs. Two versions were commissioned in 2017 by Greene Naftali gallery and Piper Keys (supported by Elephant Trust). The works were concerned with two main, related, research concerns. The first was to develop a 'compulsive' anti-aesthetic, one that would challenge a contemplative, and class bound mode of artistic spectatorship, and to eschew a professionally slick and conceptually refined type of contemporary art whose surfaces exclude material slippage. In this respect horror, humour and 'idiocy' (see Kenning, 'You Cannot Be Serious! Art, Politics, Idiocy') were employed to produce something weird, crude and unnerving. The second research concern was to undermine the idealized, humanist model of intellectual progress, represented by the male modern artist, with his technical prowess and creative assertion of selfhood, and in its place to assert something more abject, compulsive and machinic, closer to the decentred and sexually determined subject put forward by psychoanalysis. In the work Kenning imagines himself metamorphosed into a mechanised animal, on all fours, locked in a single repetitive movement. He is rendered into what Jacques Lacan has called, in a reversal of Cartesian ontology, a 'jammed machine' (Seminar II). The artistically debased genre of kinetic art enabled a method of production whereby Kenning relinquished control over an array of compositional effects, focusing on getting the mechanism moving rather than on formal concerns. The finished sculptures displayed a compulsive character, embodying a 'weird', unnerving, somewhat crude (anti) aesthetic through seesawing and hinging movements and accidental sounds. The effect of this was witnessed in audience reactions to the work, which ran from laughter to wonder, anxiety to offence (Dan Graham: 'it's the most offensive work in the show!')

Beginning with the chapters on warfare in the first three volumes of the New Cambridge Modern History, Sir John Hale's writings on the subject present an original and rich assessment of war's place in Renaissance life and thought. The first section of this collection constitutes a major contribution to the study of Renaissance fortifications, their design, planning and execution, and their political as well as their military significance. The second deals with the recruitment and training of officers and men. In the third, contemporary reactions to war are analysed in a variety of social and i

Connecting Renaissance humanism to the variety of "critical posthumanisms" in twenty-first-century literary and cultural theory, Renaissance Posthumanism reconsiders traditional languages of humanism and the human, not by nostalgically enshrining or triumphantly superseding humanisms past but rather by revisiting and interrogating them. What if today's "critical posthumanisms," even as they distance themselves from the iconic representations of the Renaissance, are in fact moving ever closer to ideas in works from the fourteenth to the seventeenth century? What if "the human" is at once embedded and embodied in, evolving with, and de-centered amid a weird tangle of animals, environments, and vital materiality? Seeking those patterns of thought and practice, contributors to this collection focus on moments wherein Renaissance humanism looks retrospectively like an uncanny "contemporary"—and ally—of twenty-first-century critical posthumanism

"The Renaissance Conscience presents one of the first modern studies to explore the variety of ways in which people during the Renaissance conversed with - and let themselves be guided by - their conscience. Through the careful examination of a wide range of extant sources including theological manuals, legal treatises, letters, and literary and autobiographical texts, the authors illustrate how individuals in England and the Hispanic world during the period of the Renaissance sought to reconcile their private and public selves, and thus establish and protect their identity. Individual essays demonstrate the significance, diversity, and fluidity of notions of conscience in the early modern world. These thought-provoking case studies also reveal how authority figures and commoners from two distinct cultural spheres struggled with similar issues and did so with explicit reference to shared scholastic and humanist traditions - often with similar outcomes. The Renaissance Conscience sheds important new light on the ways in which medieval and Renaissance discourses on conscience impacted upon early modern life and anticipated contemporary notions of moral autonomy"--

Silk velvet was first woven in Europe during the second half of the 13th century, but it reached its peak of perfection during the 15th and 16th centuries--the Renaissance. The V & A holds one of the finest collections of Renaissance velvets, including a papal carpet, a 16th-century cloak, books and caskets covered in velvet, and numerous ecclesiastical vestments. This unique book introduces these velvets to the general reader, setting them within historical contexts, exploring the skills and special equipment needed to produce velvet, and describing the basic weaving techniques. A beautifully illustrated catalog of 50 lush pieces, all newly photographed with many close-up details, this book includes detailed weave analyses and diagrams

"Dies zu verdeutlichen und in seinen vielfältigen Bezügen auszuloten, hatte sich die internationale Konferenz »Renaissance-Humanismus. Bibel und Reformbewegungen des 15. und 16. Jahrhunderts und ihre Bedeutung für das Werden der Reformation« der Johannes a Lasco Bibliothek Emden zur Aufgabe gemacht. [..., die vom 14.-16. September 2016 in Emden als ReFoRC-Projekt im Zusammenhang des 500. Jubiläums des Novum Instrumentums stattfand, [...]." (Vorwort)