Renaissance studies

Time’s Subjects

Horology and Literature in the Later Middle Ages and Renaissance

John Scattergood

There is ample evidence, from the earliest periods onwards, that mankind has sought to measure and organize temporal movement by means of intellectual theories …

Dante and the Seven Deadly Sins

John C. Barnes & Daragh O'Connell, editors

This volume opens with the bold suggestion that the seven deadly sins constitute a key to the structure of Inferno and Paradiso as well as Purgatorio. It ends w…

War and peace in Dante

John C. Barnes & Daragh O'Connell, editors

This volume opens with John Barnes exploring how Dante’s views on and experience of war are reflected in his literary works. Joseph Canning, addressing Dante’s …

Language and style in Dante

John C. Barnes & Michaelangelo Zaccarello editors

This volume opens with an essay where “style” is viewed medievally, as a near-synonym of “genre”: Zygmunt Barański argues that fully to appreciate the presence …

Transmission and generation in medieval and Renaissance literature

Essays in honour of John Scattergood

Karen Hodder & Brendan O'Connell, editors

This collection of essays focuses on the processes of intellectual transmission in medieval and Renaissance literature, paying particular attention to the ways …

Enigma and Revelation in Renaissance English literature

Helen Cooney & Mark S. Sweetnam, editors

This volume explores how the literature of the English Renaissance was informed by and involved with the twin concepts of ‘enigma’ and ‘revelation’. The collect…

Dublin and the Pale in the Renaissance, c.1540–1660

Michael Potterton & Thomas Herron, editors

Following the ground-breaking volume Ireland in the Renaissance, c.1540–1660 (2007) by the same editors, this multidisciplinary collection in history, art histo…

Occasions for writing

Essays on medieval and renaissance literature, politics and society

John Scattergood

In 1974, in an introduction to Ben Jonson’s poetry, Thom Gunn wrote: ‘all poetry is occasional: whether the occasion is an external event like a birthday or a d…

Trinity College Library Dublin

Descriptive catalogue of the Mediaeval and Renaissance Latin manuscripts

Marvin L. Colker

The first supplement to the 1991 catalogue of Latin manuscripts at Trinity College Dublin describes in detail Latin manuscripts acquired by Trinity College Dubl…

Dante and his literary precursors

John C. Barnes & Jennifer Petrie, editors

This volume explores connections between Dante and literary contexts of periods earlier than his own, from the pre-Christian era to the thirteenth century.

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Dante and the Church

Paolo Acquaviva & Jennifer Petrie, editors

The topic of Dante's attitude to the Church has exercised scholars since the 14th century, with the Reformation adding fuel to the question. The essays containe…

Staging Ireland

Representations in Shakespeare and Renaissance drama

Stephen O'Neill

This book is a comprehensive study of the representation of Ireland in the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Through a detailed analysis of a range o…