scholarly journals Childhood and Loss in Early Modern Life Writing

Parergon ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 115-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katharine Hodgkin
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Life Writing ◽  
Modern Life

scholarly journals Mapping Environmental Memory Through Literature: A Conversation with Emily Lethbridge and Steven Hartman

2021 ◽  
pp. 269-291
Author(s):  
C. Parker Krieg ◽  
Emily Lethbridge ◽  
Steven Hartman
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Environmental History ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Cultural Memory ◽  
Life Writing ◽  
Environmental Knowledge ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
Research Networks ◽  
Modern Life ◽  
Knowledge Communication

This chapter is an interview with two literary scholars, whose research in Icelandic and North Atlantic environmental history has led to the creation of new digital tools and interdisciplinary research networks. From the Icelandic sagas and place names, to new discoveries of medieval and early modern life writing, their distinct paths converge on the study of culture as both a repository and medium of environmental knowledge, communication, and cultural memory.

scholarly journals “Thou liv’st to all that Read”: Reading the Paratext of William Cartwright’s Comedies, Tragi-Comedies, With other Poems (1651) as Early Modern Life Writing

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. VC1-VC18
Author(s):  
Sarah Herbe
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Life Writing ◽  
Modern Life

This essay proposes to read the paratext of books published in seventeenth-century as a form of multi-perspective, multi-generic, and multi-modal of life writing, since information on the author is not only provided in chronological “Life of the Author” narratives, but by all elements of the paratext. Drawing on the paratext of William Cartwright’s Comedies, Tragi-Comedies, With other Poems, published posthumously in 1651, it is shown how conventional paratextual strategies are combined with individualising “biographemes” (R. Barthes) to create a multi-faceted presentation of the author, in which the reader’s role to reconstruct the author’s life emerges as central. This article was submitted on June 1st 2014 and published on November 3rd 2014

scholarly journals Romancing the Self in Early Modern Englishwomen's Life Writing

Prose Studies ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 305-308
Author(s):  
Natasha Simonova
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Life Writing ◽  
The Self

scholarly journals Dissecting with numbers: mathematics in Nicolaus Steno’s early anatomical writings, 1661-64

Substantia ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 29-42
Author(s):  
Nuno Castel-Branco
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Life Sciences ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Complete Picture ◽  
Scientific Career ◽  
Mathematical Methods ◽  
Modern Life ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
Gradual Process

At the height of his scientific career, the anatomist Nicolaus Steno published the Elementorum myologiæ specimen (Florence, 1667), a book unlike any other anatomy book until then. Rather than an anatomy book, it seemed more like a book of mathematics, with propositions, lemmas and corollaries. Steno is thought to have developed his mathematical interests in Florence with the school of Galileo. However, this article challenges this interpretation and argues that Steno’s turn towards mathematics was a gradual process that began earlier in Copenhagen and Leiden. By surveying Steno’s early anatomical writings, mathematical methods such as quantification measurements, mechanical analogies, and geometrical models come to light. More importantly, these methods are read in their own context, by considering what mathematics really meant in the early modern period and how anatomists have used it in history. As such, this article provides a more complete picture of Steno’s interest in mathematics and it sheds new light on the rise of mathematics in the early modern life sciences.

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