Practicing Renaissance scholarship
Subtitle: plays and pageants, patrons and politics
By: David M. Bergeron.
Series: Medieval & Renaissance literary studies; Medieval and Renaissance literary studies.
Publisher: Duquesne University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Pittsburgh, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
Subjects: English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism.; Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 16th century.; Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century.; Authors and patrons -- England -- History -- 16th century.; Authors and patrons -- England -- History -- 17th century.; English drama -- 17th century -- History and criticism.; Political plays, English -- History and criticism.; Literary patrons -- Great Britain.; Pageants -- England -- History.
Description: "David M. Bergeron, one of the most renowned specialists in the world on Renaissance English civic pageantry, masques, entertainments and drama, now gives us Practicing Renaissance Scholarship. This book is a collection of 11 essays that focus on the plight of the humanist scholar at the beginning of the new century, arguing for an attitude of "interrogative metonymy" - that is, a kind of collegiality among scholars with an insistent questioning of transmitted knowledge.

From original archival research, to analyzing what centuries of thinkers have written, to exposing reductive ideology, the essays revolve around the twin poles of evidence and interpretation."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.