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Literatures of Exile in the English Revolution and its Aftermath, 1640-1690
Original and thought-provoking, this collection sheds new light on an important yet understudied feature of seventeenth-century England's political and cultural landscape: exile. Through an essentially literary lens, exile is examined both as physical departure from England-to France, Germany, the Low Countries and America-and as inner, mental withdrawal. In the process, a strikingly wide variety of contemporary sources comes under scrutiny, including letters, diaries, plays, treatises, translations and poetry. The extent to which the richness and disparateness of these modes of writing militates against or constructs a recognisable 'rhetoric' of exile is one of the book's overriding themes. Also under consideration is the degree to which exilic writing in this period is intended for public consumption, a product of private reflection, or characterised by a coalescence of the two. Importantly, this volume extends the chronological range of the English Revolution beyond 1660 by demonstrating that exile during the Restoration formed a meaningful continuum with displacement during the civil wars of the mid-century. This in-depth and overdue study of prominent and hitherto obscure exiles, conspicuously diverse in political and religious allegiance yet inextricably bound by the shared experience of displacement, will be of interest to scholars in a range of disciplines.
Philip Major teaches English at Birkbeck College, University of London. He has published widely on seventeenth-century literature and is currently writing a monograph on the works of Thomas, 3rd Lord Fairfax.
Contents: Foreword, Lisa Jardine; Introduction, Philip Major; Exiles, expatriates, and travellers: towards a cultural and intellectual history of the English abroad, 1640-1660, Timothy Raylor; Disruptions and evocations of family amongst Royalist exiles, Ann Hughes and Julie Sanders; A broken broker in Antwerp: William Aylesbury and the Duke of Buckingham's goods, 1648-1650, Katrien Daemen-de Gelder and J.P. Vander Motten; A tortoise in the shell: Royalist and Anglican experience of exile in the 1650s, Marika Keblusek; Exile, apostasy and Anglicanism in the English Revolution, Sarah Mortimer; Exile in Europe during the English Revolution and its literary impact, Nigel Smith; Abraham Cowley and the ends of poetry, Christopher D'Addario; 'Not sure of safety': Hobbes and exile, James Loxley; 'A poor exile stranger': William Goffe in New England, Philip Major; 'The good old cause for which I suffer': the life of a regicide in exile, Jason Peacey; Works cited; Index.
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Erasmus, man of letters : the construction of charisma in print
Overview: The name Erasmus of Rotterdam conjures up a golden age of scholarly integrity and the disinterested pursuit of knowledge, when learning could command public admiration without the need for authorial self-promotion. Lisa Jardine, however, shows that Erasmus self-consciously created his own reputation as the central figure of the European intellectual world. Erasmus himself--the historical as opposed to the figural individual--was a brilliant, maverick innovator, who achieved little formal academic recognition in his own lifetime. What Jardine offers here is not only a fascinating study of Erasmus but also a bold account of a key moment in Western history, a time when it first became possible to believe in the existence of something that could be designated \"European thought.\"
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Impact of an active learning physics workshop on secondary school students’ self-efficacy and ability
Female students and those with a low socioeconomic status (SES) typically score lower in assessments of self-efficacy and ability in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). In this study, a cohort of over 200 UK students attended an intensive, active learning, physics workshop, with pre- and post-assessments to measure both physics self-efficacy and physics ability before and after the workshop. Our control took the form of material that was closely related but not covered during the workshop. Students benefited from attending the workshop, as self-efficacy and ability increased significantly in the post-test, with the material not covered showing the smallest increase as expected. A significant socioeconomic attainment gap in ability was completely alleviated for questions on material covered at both secondary and upper secondary level, but not for questions on material seen at upper secondary only. In contrast, although no overall significant initial gender gap in ability was found, despite female students having a lower mean score than male students, a gender gap was alleviated for material seen only at upper secondary level. Female and low SES students' physics ability improved more than male and high SES students' physics ability, respectively. The workshop particularly benefited students from a mildly underperforming demographic tackling the hardest questions, or students from a significantly underperforming demographic tackling intermediate questions but not the hardest questions. The already high levels of confidence in their abilities felt by the cohort (which was boosted further by the workshop) meant that none of the demographics considered were less self-efficacious than their peers; however, the self-efficacy of female students improved more than male students, but of high SES students more than low SES students. This study provides a valuable contribution toward understanding the interaction between the extent of underperforming and question difficulty, and the features from the Bootcamp can be easily transferred to other STEM subjects.
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الأورغانون الجديد، أو، الوسيلة الجديدة لاكتساب المعرفة
يقتبس كتاب \"الوسيلة الجديدة لاكتساب المعرفة\" عنوانه من كتاب لأرسطو حول المنطق بعنوان \"وسيلة اكتساب المعرفة\" أو \"أداة التفكير المنطقي\". رفض بيكون بشدة منطق أرسطو الذي لم يكن من وجهة نظره مناسبا البتة للحصول على المعرفة في العصر \"الحديث\" يقدم كتاب \"الوسيلة الجديدة لاكتساب المعرفة\" منطقا يتجاوز منطق أرسطو بما يتلاءم والحصول على المعرفة في عصر العلم، وبينما كان النظام الأرسطي الاستدلالي المستند إلى القياسات المنطقية يستنبط استنتاجاته الموثوقة والتي كانت متسقة منطقيا مع المقدمات الجدلية، فإن النظام الذي اعتمده بيكون صمم لكي يقوم بالتحقيق في تلك المقدمات الأساسية نفسها لقد طرح منطق أرسطو مبدا الحقيقة التي لا يرقى إليها الشك، تقوم على مقدمات أشبه ما تكون بالمسلمات التي لا بد من قبولها كحقيقة غير قابلة للنقاش ؛ وبالمقابل، طرح بيكون استدلالا استقرائيا اعتمد دليلا فطريا للعالم الطبيعي يمكن للباحث العلمي من خلال الجهد الكبير الذي يبذله في تجميع قاعدة للبيانات \"التواريخ الطبيعية\" استعمال كتاب \"الوسيلة الجديدة لاكتساب المعرفة\" من أجل شق طريقه تدريجيا باتجاه مستويات أعلى من الاحتمالات.
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Reading Shakespeare Historically
Reading Shakespeare Historically is a passionate, provocative book by one of the most renowned and popular Renaissance scholars writing today. Charting ten years of critical development, these challenging, witty essays shed new light on Renaissance studies. It also raises intriguing questions about how the culture and history of the past illuminates the key social and political issues of today. Lisa Jardine re-reads Renaissance drama in its historical and cultural context, from laws of defamation in Othello to the competing loyalties of companionate marriage and male friendship in The Changeling. In doing so she reveals a wealth of new insights, sometimes surprising but always original and engrossing. At the same time, these essays also provide a fascinating account of the rise of feminist scholarship since the 1980s and the diversifying of `new historicist' approaches over the same period.
Reading Shakespeare Historically will fascinate and provoke students of shakespeare and his historical age, and general readers with an urge to understand how the culture and history of our past illuminates the key scoial and political issues of today.
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Relics of the modern mind
Our enduring search for meaning in life explains the reverence with which the bones of seventeenth-century French philosopher René Descartes were worshipped, suggests Lisa Jardine.
Autumn Books: On Descartes' bones, Will Self's liver and scientist's lives
Good reads in this year's Autumn Books special include Lisa Jardine's review of Descartes' Bones, in which Russell Shorto tracks the philosopher's remains across Europe and down the centuries. As well as a route map for body parts, Shorto sees a map of the creation of the modern mind in the resulting patterns. Will Self's Liver: A Fictional Organ with a Surface Anatomy of Four Lobes, is an extended hepatic metaphor. A four-part satire on modern life, it is sometimes nauseating but almost always on the nail, says our reviewer. But what of scientists' lives? Good question, says Georgina Ferry.
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Rethinking the arrow of time Now The Physics of Time Richard A. Muller Norton, 2016. 364 pp
Citing shortcomings in Eddington's theory, a physicist proposes a new explanation for the existence of “now” Is time discrete or continuous? What is the smallest measurement of time that we can make? And does time actually pass faster as we age, or is it just our perception? You may consider such questions to be metaphysical or philosophical, but in Now: The Physics of Time Richard Muller ponders these and other questions through the lens of a number of major 20th century physics discoveries. In doing so, Muller successfully introduces and describes most, if not all, of the key elements in an undergraduate physics course, masterfully connecting them with the conceptual thread of \"the arrow of time.\"
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