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James Dougal Fleming
In Timothie Bright and the Origins of Early Modern Shorthand, J. D. Fleming brings together two areas of sixteenth-century intellectual history.
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From Bacon to Galileo, from stagecraft to maths, from martyrology to romance, contributors to this interdisciplinary collection examine the early-modern generation of discovery as an absolute and ostensibly neutral standard…
Debates that the poetry and prose of John Milton are about the presentation of a radically different hermeneutic model. Drawing on Renaissance Neoplatonism, Tudor-Stuart ideology, and Calvinist theory of conscience…
Milton’s Secrecy argues that the work of John Milton presents a theory of interpretation - or hermeneutics - emphasizing openness and recognition over hiddenness and discovery. The book draws on…
This book examines the seventeenth-century project for a real or universal character: a scientific and objective code. Focusing on the Essay towards a real character, and a philosophical language (1668)…
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