Trollers and Dreamers: Defining the Citizen-Subject in Sixteenth-Century Cheap Print

2008 ◽  
Vol 38 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 102-118
Author(s):  
Cathy Shrank
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Cheap Print

FemaleComplaintes: Laments of Venus, Queens, and City Women in Late Sixteenth-Century France*

2001 ◽  
Vol 54 (3) ◽  
pp. 801-845 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kate van Orden
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Religious Wars ◽  
Female Voices ◽  
Love Lyric ◽  
Cheap Print ◽  
Musical Forms

This essay studies a large repertory of French laments (complaintes,) written in the voices of women. As a feminine counterpart to masculine love lyric, thecomplaintearose from an alternative poetics, treating subjects excluded fromfin amors, such as death, crime, and war. Essentially, lyric assigned erotic longing to men and mourning to women. The unusual subject matter accommodated by thecomplaintes, coupled with a set of material and musical forms locating them amid the cultures of cheap print, psalmody, and street song, ultimately embroiled them in the battles of the religious wars. Thus female voices came to trumpet confessional politics in songs that levied lyric, gender, and faith to serve in civil war.

Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Adam Fox
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
French Revolution ◽  
Popular Literature ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Wide Audience ◽  
Mass Market ◽  
Reading Matter ◽  
Late Eighteenth ◽  
Extensive Range ◽  
Cheap Print

The introduction to this book argues that no general study of cheap print and popular literature has yet been undertaken for Scotland in the period between the advent of the nation’s first presses in the early sixteenth century and the eve of the French Revolution in the late eighteenth. It demonstrates that far more of this kind of ephemeral work aimed at a wide audience was once produced than has now survived and that the scale of its output has been insufficiently appreciated. The book sets out to show that Scotland both produced and imported a far more extensive range of reading matter for the mass market than has been acknowledged and that no understanding of contemporary society can be complete without it.

Maxims of Foreign Policy

Itinerario ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 62-79
Author(s):  
W.J. Boot
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Foreign Relations ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
Cultural Sphere ◽  
Japanese Identity

In the pre-modern period, Japanese identity was articulated in contrast with China. It was, however, articulated in reference to criteria that were commonly accepted in the whole East-Asian cultural sphere; criteria, therefore, that were Chinese in origin.One of the fields in which Japan's conception of a Japanese identity was enacted was that of foreign relations, i.e. of Japan's relations with China, the various kingdoms in Korea, and from the second half of the sixteenth century onwards, with the Portuguese, Spaniards, Dutchmen, and the Kingdom of the Ryūkū.

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