03782namaa2200757uu 4500 oapen92904 oapen 20251217011848.0 a||||fo|||||||||0| cr|mn|---annan 240904s2024a||||fo|||||||||0|eng d 9781032698281 9781032698298 9781032698304 10.4324/9781032698304 doi oapen oapen eng dc N thema NH thema NHB thema NHD thema Scheil, Katherine aut Early Modern Improvisations Essays on History and Literature in Honor of John Watkins Taylor & Francis Routledge [Imprint] 2024 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier New Interdisciplinary Approaches to Early Modern Culture Free-to-read Unrestricted online access star With a panoramic sweep across continents and topics, Early Modern Improvisations is an interdisciplinary collection that analyzes the relationship between early modern literature and history through lenses such as gender, ethnicity, sexuality, religion, and politics. The book engages readers interested in texts that range from Shakespeare and Tudor queens to Anglican missionary work in North America; from contemporary feminist television series to Ancient Greek linguistic and philosophical concepts; from the delicate dance of diplomatic exchange to the instabilities of illness, food insecurity, and piracy. Its range of contributions encourages readers to discover their own intersections across literary and historical texts, a sense of discovery that this collection's contributors learned from its dedicatee, John Watkins, a major literary and cultural historian whose work moves effortlessly across geographical, temporal, and political borders. His work and his personality embody the spirit of creative improvisation that brings new ideas together, allowing texts and figures of history to haunt later eras and encourage new questions. This volume is aimed at scholars and students alike who wish to explore early modern culture and its reverberations in ways that engage with a world outside the grand narratives and centralized institutions of power, a world that is more provisional, less scripted, and more improvisational. Chapter 1 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC)] 4.0 license. Open licence https://oapen.org/article/rights eng European history thema General and world history thema History and Archaeology thema History thema America Cranmer Daughters Elizabeth I England Europe Habsburg Henry VIII Italian Wars Medieval Law Mediterranean Mothers Pirates Pregnancies Queen Elizabeth's Seneca Queen Elizabeth's Seneca Queenship Race Russia Shakespeare Violence Wolsey Women Scheil, Katherine edt Shenk, Linda edt OAPEN Library. https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/92904 Free-to-read: OAPEN Library/DOAB: description of the publication 0 36971 36971