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Review Essay: Christine Weightman, Margaret Of York: Duchess Of Burgundy, 1446-1503, Retha M. Warnicke Jan 1990

Review Essay: Christine Weightman, Margaret Of York: Duchess Of Burgundy, 1446-1503, Retha M. Warnicke

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Christine Weightman, Margaret of York: Duchess of Burgundy, 1446-1503, St. Martin's Press, 1989.


Review Essay: E. A. J. Honigmann, Myriad-Minded Shakespeare: Essays, Chiefly On The Tragedies And Problem Comedies, Paul R. Thomas Jan 1990

Review Essay: E. A. J. Honigmann, Myriad-Minded Shakespeare: Essays, Chiefly On The Tragedies And Problem Comedies, Paul R. Thomas

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E. A. J. Honigmann, Myriad-Minded Shakespeare: Essays, Chiefly on the Tragedies and Problem Comedies, St. Martin's Press, 1989.


Review Essay: Christopher Haigh, Ed., The Reign Of Elizabeth I, F. J. Platt Jan 1990

Review Essay: Christopher Haigh, Ed., The Reign Of Elizabeth I, F. J. Platt

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Christopher Haigh, ed., The Reign of Elizabeth I, University of Georgia Press, 1987.


Universal Writing Systems: Philosophical Languages And Humanist Rhetoric In Seventeenth-Century England, Grant M. Boswell Jan 1990

Universal Writing Systems: Philosophical Languages And Humanist Rhetoric In Seventeenth-Century England, Grant M. Boswell

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The early Renaissance, like the Hellenic Age and the Golden Age of Roman literature, was epistemologically oriented to the discursory practices of rhetoric rather than to the rational methods of philosophy. This preference resulted from the widespread adoption of linguistic presuppositions upon which humanist rhetoric is based. By the end of the seventeenth century, however, the underlying principles of humanism had been replaced. The discursory competence that humanism had sought to develop had become devalued, and in its place other epistemological systems had arisen. Francis Bacon, the Royal Society, René Descartes, Isaac Newton, and John Locke all offered epistemological principles …


Review Essay: George M. Logan And Gordon Teskey, Eds., Unfolded Tales: Essays On Renaissance Romance, David Freeman Jan 1990

Review Essay: George M. Logan And Gordon Teskey, Eds., Unfolded Tales: Essays On Renaissance Romance, David Freeman

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George M. Logan and Gordono Teskey, eds., Unfolded Tales: Essays on Renaissance Romance, Cornell University Press, 1989.


Full Issue Jan 1990

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