Material London, Ca. 1600
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- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Univ of Pennsylvania Pr
- Publish date: 05/01/2000
In order to evoke "material London, ca. 1600", each scholar examines a different aspect of one of the great world cities at a critical moment in Western history. Several chapters give broad panoramic and authoritative views: what architectural forms charaterized the built city around 1600; how London's citizens incorporated the new commercialism of their culture into their moral views. Other essays offer sharply focused studies: how Irish mantles were adopted as elite fashions in the hybrid culture of the court; how the city authorities clashed with the church hierarchy over the building of a small bookshop; how London figured in Ben Jonson's exploration of the role of the poet. Although all the authors situate the material world of early modern London -- its objects, products, literatures, built environment, and economics practices -- in its broader political and cultural contexts, provocative debates and exchanges remain both within and between the essays as to what constitutes "materialLondon, ca. 1600".
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