LIBROS DEL AUTOR: david a postles

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  • Social Dramas
    David A. Postles
    The City comedies in early-modern England repeated social tropes and paradigms from which we can deduce much about social attitudes. Although literature is often assumed to belong to the sphere of representation rather than constituting an accurate reflection of social reality, early-modern English drama can tell us much about social attitudes in the early Seventeenth century. ...
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    26,80 €

  • MISSED OPPORTUNITIES? Religious Houses and the Laity in the English 'High Middle Ages'
    David A Postles
    Although there have been some recent overviews of religious houses and the relationship between the religious and the laity in the late eleventh to early fourteenth centuries, none has contained a really coherent theme. This volume offers an overarching theme which gives cohesion to the collection of essays: missed opportunities and disappointment. The efflorescence of foundat...
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    26,33 €

  • Social Geographies in England (1200-1640)
    David A. Postles
    An attempt is made to understand the relationships between social groups and the spaces and places which they inhabited. There have been for some time historians who have been concerned about the relationship between society and space/place (more so the latter). Some have chosen to approach the rhetoric of representations of space and place, in the cultural vein; others have fo...
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    26,08 €

  • Social Proprieties
    David A. Postles
    This book combines theater and life in an attempt to consider how people inter- acted in face-to-face situations in early-modern England, and to examine the wider implications of those relationships for social organization. The research behind the text is interdisciplinary: it draws on mid-Tudor comedies, the City comedies, and early-Stuart plays, illustrating how the dramat...
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    18,27 €