| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations (some color) |
| Series |
Early modern literature in history |
|
Early modern literature in history (Palgrave (Firm))
|
| Contents |
Introduction / Shanyn Altman, Jonathan Buckner, and Roze Hentschell -- Part I RELIGION AND POLITICS: Medieval St Paul's and the Cult of Erkenwald -- The Cult of Erkenwald at St Paul's Cathedral / Simon Yarrow -- St Erkenwald and the Legendary History of St Paul's / Rory McTurk -- Sacred Space, Memory, and Materiality in St Erkenwald / Laura Varnam -- Part II RELIGION AND POLITICS: Reformation and Counter-Reformation at St Paul's -- The Beastly Body in St. Paul's Cathedral: Procession and Politics Under Mary Tudor / Jennifer Allport Reid -- London's Long Reformation, the Corporation, and St Paul's / Mary Morrissey -- Paul's Cross and the State Church: The Case of John Donne and the Jesuits / Victor Houliston -- Donne's Faithful Servants: Thomas Roper and Robert Christmas at St Paul's Cathedral / Mary Ann Lund -- Part III COMMERCIAL CULTURE: Playing at Paul's and the Rise of Commercial Theatre -- The 'Playhouse' at St Paul's: What We Know of the Theatre in the Almonry / José A. Pérez Díez -- Elizabethan Commercial Playing at St Paul's / Callan Davies -- John Marston's What You Will, Plausible Plants and the Children of Paul's / Will Tosh -- Part IV COMMERCIAL CULTURE: The Print Culture of Paul's Churchyard -- Buying and Selling Books Around St Paul's Cathedral: 'Be Dishonest, and tell Lies' / Benjamin King-Cox and Daniel Starza Smith -- Publishing King Lear (1608) at the Sign of the Pied Bull / Amy Lidster -- St Paul's and London News Culture, 1618-1632 319 / Kirsty Rolfe |
| Summary |
Old St Pauls and Culture is an interdisciplinary collection of essays that looks predominantly at the culture of Old St Pauls and its wider precinct in the early modern period, while also providing important insights into the Cathedrals medieval institution. The chapters examine the symbolic role of the site in Englands Christian history, the London book trade based in and around St Pauls, the place of St Pauls commercial indoor playhouse within the performance culture of sixteenth and seventeenth-century London, and the intersection of religion and politics through events such as civic ceremonies and occasional sermons. Through the organising theme of culture, the authors demonstrate how the site, as well as the people and trades occupying the precinct, can be positioned within wider fields of representations, practices, and social networks. A focus on St Pauls is therefore about more than just the specific site on Ludgate Hill: it is about those practices and representations connected to it, which either extended beyond or originated in places other than the Cathedral environs. This points to the range of localised, regional, national, and transnational relationships in which the precinct and its people were situated and to which they contributed |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed September 8, 2021) |
| Subject |
St. Paul's Cathedral (London, England) -- History -- 16th century
|
|
St. Paul's Cathedral (London, England) -- History -- 17th century
|
|
St. Paul's Cathedral (London, England) -- In literature
|
| SUBJECT |
St. Paul's Cathedral (London, England) fast |
| Subject |
Literature: history & criticism.
|
|
Literary studies: classical, early & medieval.
|
|
Social & cultural history.
|
|
European history.
|
|
Literary studies: general.
|
|
Literary Criticism -- General.
|
|
Literary Criticism -- Medieval.
|
|
History -- Social History.
|
|
History -- Europe -- General.
|
|
Intellectual life
|
|
Literature
|
| SUBJECT |
London (England) -- Intellectual life -- 16th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85078214
|
|
London (England) -- Intellectual life -- 17th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85078215
|
| Subject |
England -- London
|
| Genre/Form |
History
|
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| Author |
Altman, Shanyn, editor.
|
|
Buckner, Jonathan, editor
|
| ISBN |
9783030772673 |
|
3030772675 |
|
