...Patricia Crown The College of William & Mary 2002 ECL26107-135-crow.q4 5/24/02 1:58 PM Page 119 Sporting with Clothes: John Collet’s Prints in the 1770s...

..., it constituted a sensitive balancing point for Spain and Austria, the two nations that ruled Milan in the modern age. This essay suggests that those policies had a marked protectionist approach during the Spanish period (1535–1706), mainly because of the alliance between the Crown and the local elites who sought...

.... Be careful or they will cut your throat. Samuel Johnson is more temperate in his undated sermon. The regicide was a sign of destructive envy, both in its own right and because it ignored alternatives, like legal restraint upon the crown. Swift places the regicide in a political and national context. Johnson...

...Alex Feldman From his first play, Love and a Bottle (1698), to the masterpiece that crowned his career, The Beaux ’ Stratagem (1707), George Farquhar's oeuvre is traversed by legal motifs and legal scenarios, from satirical attacks upon the judiciary, to serious engagements with the law of contract...

... magnificence were what we loosely call the “Crown Jewels.” These were meant for use. Their charisma rubbed off onto their wearers. Sir John Fortescue, the fifteenth-century English jurist, said that a king had a spe- cial need for “rich stones” and “other jewels and ornaments...

... in England. Given that the French parlements were law courts, perpet- ually engaged in challenging the power of the Crown, this is unlikely. We are told, too, that James wanted to introduce French-­style Catholic modernity into England on the model of the Gallican Church. The French Catholic Church...

... with the artist's former students Jean-Auguste Dominique Ingres, Jean-Antoine Gros, François Gérard, and others, to produce monumental history paintings and portraits that hyperbolically “documented” the new French leader's achievements. 8 Once Napoleon crowned himself emperor in 1804, he commissioned full...

... in the colony displeased a financially belea- guered crown. Bombay, the other part of Catherine of Braganza’s dowry, presented even more troubles. As Edwin Chappell notes, the island had to be defended against the Dutch, French, Portuguese, and Indians.18 Mer- chant...

... the same lodge. Family connections are apparent with brothers, or possibly fathers and sons, joining lodges. Examples include John and William McDowell, car- penters, who both lived, initially, at the Crown Tavern in Green Street, Leicester Fields before moving to Chandois Street and Coventry...

..., the Parlement de Paris, growing out of the Conseil du roi, or Curia regis, was the oldest and the most vener- able of these courts, and its task was to administer the king’s justice. As the great fiefdoms progressively came under the authority of the French Crown from the late Middle Ages onward...

..., with the Union of Crowns and James VI/I’s departure for London, and ends in 1822, with George IV’s visit to Edinburgh. The broad sweep of the study encapsulates the trope of Scottish departure, return, and recovery that appears frequently in the lit- erature and culture of the periodÐ for instance...

..., and their inhabitants sub- jects of the British Crown, their eªorts to take arms against the Crown could be understood as civil war but they weren t. What we see, then, in the decades and the literature following the English Civil War, is a slow blurring of the division between civil or intestine war and war more...

...- ity is intended to be shamed by this harsh mirth and thus encouraged to renew itself, in theory to evolve into something better. Fifth and most important of all to the carnival experience is the mock crowning, period of misrule, and subsequent decrowning of the carnival...

... and the fruits of patronage. In the spirit of classical republicanism, the Opposi- tion argued that the political individual could never be truly free or virtu- ous if dependent upon the Crown; from this perspective, prime minister Walpole was an architect of corruption since his power...

... that “pretended a Right to the Crown,” which lends credibility to Wilputte’s identification of him as James II Eovaai,( ed. Wilputte, 99n). Haywood’s journal, the Parrot, published serially in nine numbers from 2 August to 4 October 1746, comments, with thinly disguised sympathy, on the trial...

..., and dismissed those with Crown appointments who disagreed with his dispensing power. The declaration itself suspended penal laws against those who either were not Anglican or did not receive communion according to its rites, permitted penalty-free worship of non-Anglican and perhaps non-Christian...

... the ceremonial functions, crowning succeeding Miskito kings at a ceremony at Sandy Bay and, later still, in Belize (Olien, 198–221). Historians have sometimes interpreted these ceremonies as evidence of the subordination of the Miskito to British rule...

... and culturally mixed; and the Old English, the cultural fathers ultimately of the Catholic Irish nation, were what their name said they were and were staunchly loyal to the Crown. Intimacy and interbreeding were basic to the scene, deepening its tensions and tragedy. There are excellent essays...

... anniversaries. Of special interest is the author’s chapter entitled “Recycling and Russifying Seria,” in which she discusses the fate of “serious,” historical Italian operas (opera seria) on the Rus- sian soil. Naroditskaya argues that they not only functioned “as a decoration for the Russian crown...