TY - BOOK
T1 - Six Renaissance Men and Women: Innovation, Biography, and Cultural Creativity in Tudor England, c.1450-1560
AU - Salter, Elisabeth
N1 - Salter, E. (2007). Six Renaissance Men and Women: Innovation, Biography, and Cultural Creativity in Tudor England, c.1450-1560. Aldershot: Ashgate.
RAE2008
PY - 2007/8/7
Y1 - 2007/8/7
N2 - The English Renaissance is frequently defined in the context of the Elizabethans and early-Stuarts, but here we focus on
the early Renaissance, and the important cultural transitions of the late-medieval/early-Tudor period. In this innovative
study, Elisabeth Salter reconstructs the lives and experiences of six men and women of the early Renaissance and leads
us on a quest to reconstruct their lost cultural worlds.
The six men and women are all figures from the margins of the royal courts during the reigns of Henry VII and Henry VIII:
Gilbert Banaster, present at the court of Henry VII in the guise of writer and musician; The Anonymous Witness, spectator
to the marriage of Prince Arthur and Katherine of Aragon; William Cornish, playwright and musician at Henry VIII's
household; Elizabeth Philip, silk trader to the royal court; Dame Katherine Styles, whose biography is recreated through
her will; and William Buckley, Educator and Schoolmaster to King Edward VI.
Salter presents an exemplary model of how it is possible to reconstruct biography from sometimes fragmentary sources.
The connections drawn between these six individuals display ample evidence for the cultural innovation and sophistication
of these courts in terms of pageantry, music, the visual arts, fashions in luxury consumption, scientific discovery and
literary invention. When all six lives are added together as a whole, the book will lead the reader to a richer understanding
of the cultural context of the early English Renaissance.
AB - The English Renaissance is frequently defined in the context of the Elizabethans and early-Stuarts, but here we focus on
the early Renaissance, and the important cultural transitions of the late-medieval/early-Tudor period. In this innovative
study, Elisabeth Salter reconstructs the lives and experiences of six men and women of the early Renaissance and leads
us on a quest to reconstruct their lost cultural worlds.
The six men and women are all figures from the margins of the royal courts during the reigns of Henry VII and Henry VIII:
Gilbert Banaster, present at the court of Henry VII in the guise of writer and musician; The Anonymous Witness, spectator
to the marriage of Prince Arthur and Katherine of Aragon; William Cornish, playwright and musician at Henry VIII's
household; Elizabeth Philip, silk trader to the royal court; Dame Katherine Styles, whose biography is recreated through
her will; and William Buckley, Educator and Schoolmaster to King Edward VI.
Salter presents an exemplary model of how it is possible to reconstruct biography from sometimes fragmentary sources.
The connections drawn between these six individuals display ample evidence for the cultural innovation and sophistication
of these courts in terms of pageantry, music, the visual arts, fashions in luxury consumption, scientific discovery and
literary invention. When all six lives are added together as a whole, the book will lead the reader to a richer understanding
of the cultural context of the early English Renaissance.
M3 - Book
SN - 9780754654407
SN - 0754654400
BT - Six Renaissance Men and Women: Innovation, Biography, and Cultural Creativity in Tudor England, c.1450-1560
PB - Taylor & Francis
ER -