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Oral Hygiene In Elizabethan England, Karl H. Dannenfeldt
Oral Hygiene In Elizabethan England, Karl H. Dannenfeldt
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The men and women of Elizabethan England were well aware of their living in an age of transition. The old order was changing and empirical maxims were replacing the ideals of classical humanism. The new courtier and the new man of the middle class searched for pragmatic rules that led to success, recognition, and a more gracious way of life that befitted the new wealth.
John Skelton: Courtly Maker/Popular Poet, Nancy A. Gutierrez
John Skelton: Courtly Maker/Popular Poet, Nancy A. Gutierrez
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The eight poems in Latin and English written at the time of the English victory at Flodden Field in 1513 are various combinations of praise, vituperation, satire, and polemic, reflecting the attitudes of their authors. John Skelton, Thomas More, Peter Carmelianus, and Bernard André. These courtly makers, homogeneous in both their humanist background and court employment, see the battle essentially the same way–as an occasion to celebrate their royal employer and to abuse his enemy–thus the differing verse forms and slanted treatments are grounded in a common point of view. However, John Skelton, as author of three of the eight …