Old St Paul’s and Culture

Shanyn Altman, Jonathan Buckner

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Springer Nature Switzerland AG
02 September 2021

Literature: history & criticism; Literary studies: general; Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Social & cultural history; Church history

Series: Early Modern Literature in History

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.

Edited by: Shanyn Altman, Jonathan Buckner
Imprint: Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of Publication: Switzerland
Edition: 2021 ed.
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 148mm,
Weight: 634g
ISBN: 9783030772666
ISBN 10: 3030772667
Series: Early Modern Literature in History
Pages: 351
Publication Date: 02 September 2021
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.