Overview
- Takes a multi-disciplinary approach in order to navigate the day-to-day activities of Old St Paul's
- Analyses Old St Paul's as both a religious and secular forum
- Establishes Old St Paul's influential role in the culture of medieval and early modern society
Part of the book series: Early Modern Literature in History (EMLH)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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RELIGION AND POLITICS: Medieval St Paul’s and the Cult of Erkenwald
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RELIGION AND POLITICS: Reformation and Counter-Reformation at St Paul’s
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COMMERCIAL CULTURE: Playing at Paul’s and the Rise of Commercial Theatre
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COMMERCIAL CULTURE: The Print Culture of Paul’s Churchyard
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About this book
Old St Paul’s and Culture is an interdisciplinary collection of essays that looks predominantly at the culture of Old St Paul’s and its wider precinct in the early modern period, while also providing important insights into the Cathedral’s medieval institution. The chapters examine the symbolic role of the site in England’s Christian history, the London book trade based in and around St Paul’s, the place of St Paul’s commercial indoor playhouse within the performance culture of sixteenth and seventeenth-century London, and the intersection of religion and politics through events such as civic ceremonies and occasional sermons. Through the organising theme of culture, the authors demonstrate how the site, as well as the people and trades occupying the precinct, can be positioned within wider fields of representations, practices, and social networks. A focus on St Paul’s is therefore about more than just the specific site on Ludgate Hill: it is about those practices and representations connected to it, which either extended beyond or originated in places other than the Cathedral environs. This points to the range of localised, regional, national, and transnational relationships in which the precinct and its people were situated and to which they contributed.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Shanyn Altman joined Shakespeare’s Globe as a Research Coordinator in 2013 and has acted as a Globe Education Lecturer since 2017. Her primary research interests lie in the political philosophy and religion of early modern England. She is the author of Witnessing to the Faith: Absolutism and the Conscience in John Donne’s England (2022).
Jonathan Buckner is an independent scholar who is interested in social, cultural and political history from early modern to twentieth century Britain and Europe.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Old St Paul’s and Culture
Editors: Shanyn Altman, Jonathan Buckner
Series Title: Early Modern Literature in History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77267-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-77266-6Published: 02 September 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-77269-7Published: 03 September 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-77267-3Published: 01 September 2021
Series ISSN: 2634-5919
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5927
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 351
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Literary History, Medieval Literature, Cultural History, European History