Transmission and Transgression Cultural challenges in early modern England

• Other Authors: Chiari, Sophie (Editor), Palma, Hélène (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Aix-en-Provence Presses universitaires de Provence 2014
• Series: Textuelles
• Subjects: Literary studies: general; transmission; transgression; cultural challenges
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

This volume aims at exploring the reinvention of philosophy, literature and science in the early modern era to show how writers and readers collectively engaged in redefining the transmission of knowledge, whether ancient or newly discovered. In its first section, the contributors deal with religiou...