Author: Heninger, S K
Title: The Subtext Of Form In The English Renaissance - Proportion Poetical
Description: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994, 1st edition. Paperback, F. x+214pp, 31 b/w illustrations, index, a nice fine copy. New. Paperback , no dustjacket. ISBN: 0271010711 ¶ Study of the clash between the Medieval notion that an object had symbolic meaning and the Renaissance idea of materialism. The book looks at the change in ideas which occured with the Renaissance when a fundamental rethinking of what an object actually represents took place. The book explores the onological & epistemological issues which surround this shift in our cultural history.

Keywords: ISBN 0271010711, renaissance, cultural history, architecture, poetry, literature, history 0271010711