...Astrid Giugni This article traces the response to the Elizabethan Poor Laws in two parishes in Jacobean London. The Elizabethan Poor Laws of 1598 and 1601 attempted to create a system of reliable poor relief in response to a series of late sixteenth‐century economic and population crises...

... / 2011 48 William Lambarde, Archaionomia, siue de priscis anglorum legibus libri (London, 1568), fols. 81v  –  83r. The work also documents a long prehistory to the Elizabethan debate on how church leaders should behave. 49 J. G. A. Pocock, The Ancient Constitution and the Feudal Law...

... that the conflict between the two groups stems from their divergent interpretation of these terms in their public speeches and private exchanges. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 The Life and Death of Jack Straw 1381 Peasant Rising Elizabethan plays and drama rebellion and sovereignty commonwealth...

...Kirilka Stavreva © by Duke University Press 2000 Fighting Words: Witch-Speak in Late Elizabethan Docu-fiction Kirilka Stavreva St. Ambrose University...

... of biblical passages in contemporary social and political contexts. This essay rethinks the interpretive procedures and the cultural contexts of the notes, which, though influential in Elizabethan England, reflect the condition and polemical discourses of their exiled Marian community. Consequently...

... on Elizabethan England and early nineteenth-century Germany, two times and places that determined the fortunes of Old English law more than any others. But I end by returning to the Anglo-Saxon period, considering anew the deliberative processes that underlay pre-Conquest legislation in light of texts rarely...

..., a monument, like other Church of England buildings, to the long-­suffering body of the English faithful enduring the Reformation.2 The anxieties traversing this turbulent era toward sacred objects and spaces pervade the early Elizabethan Homyly agaynst peryll of Idolatry, which treats laypeople...

... as a representative of the poore Commontie) offers a Marian playwright an imaginative corridor to a quiescent but resistant public. In Sir David Lindsay’s Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis, problems of governance distinctive to the Scottish nation propel a living and speaking Johne the Common-weill to center...

... jurisdiction into “counts of tenthes, and hundreds” to establish “wholsom lawes” benefitting “the pub- lique peace,” “Orphants,” and “the poore.” Collectively, the cards promote an ideal of the commonwealth united in division and shaped by its invest- ments in welfare, while avoiding antimonarchical...

...: The Development of Anti- Spanish Sentiment, 1558 – 1660 (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1971), 1 – 60; Richard McCabe, Spenser’s Monstrous Regiment: Elizabethan Ireland and the Poetics of Difference (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002), 226 – 27; and Lockey, Law and Empire, 65...

... of post-Reformation apocalyptic drama and, more immediately, as participating in the extended print and performance history of the confessionally charged Jacobean history play. Combining an apocalyptic vision of history and chivalric language and imagery within a cultural framework of Elizabethan...

... it is important to understand individual bibles and their readers in their own right. The Bible took many different forms in the early English Renaissance. During the Elizabethan period and most of the Jacobean period, the best-­selling Bible was not, in fact, the King James but the so-­called Geneva...

... countries and of all the world besides are everyday ingrossed and transported into England.”34 He laments those who waste their wealth on clothing, by pointing to “one of these poore thread bare knights Sir Nicholas Newfashions by name, that had so wasted and consumed himself in foolish pride...

... sources. Woodbridge, Vagrancy, Homelessness, and English Renaissance Literature , 41–43, suggests that changes in the Poor Laws throughout the Elizabethan and Jacobean period were specifically responding to the claims of rogue literature like Harman's. 11 Harman, Caveat for Commen Cursetors , sig...

... University of Missouri-St. Louis Saint Louis, Missouri There is now in vogue that song of the feast of Corpus Christi which is patched together from many passages of Scripture. . . . It is the dream of a poor senseless idiot. Here [Melchizedek’s bread and wine, Elijah’s...

... that Henry himself could go to France in the appropriate style. Hall reports that “the poore curssed, the riche repugned, the light wittes railed, but in conclusion, all people curssed the Cardinal, and his coadherentes as subversor of the Lawes and libertie of Englande. For thei saide, if men should...

... of the church in the 1570s. Elizabethan ecclesiastical controversy in turn helped “invent” central features of avant-garde conformity by prompting Richard Hooker's use of Jewish precedent to stabilize the church from the 1580s onward. Mutual claims to the Hebrew doctors exposed disagreement over how...

.... I begin, then, by turning attention to an Elizabethan shoe unearthed by Museum of London archaeologists in an excavation of the Rose Theater, where Dekker’s play was first performed (see fig. 1). At first glance, the shoe appears quite humble, even crude by present-­day standards. Its rough...

... of this Realme but also provide for the poore, in honest and decent maner, brynging them to a good and Godly vocation of life. 6 Some forty years later Misselden, observing that [t]he Poore sterve in the streets for want of labour, writes that cultivating the sea promiseth Renowne to the King, Revenue...

..., and marriages “ ‘when they were scarcely out of the nurses’ charge.’ That was about 1470,” Woolf continues, “soon after Chaucer’s time.” 1 Two pages later, appalled that “ ‘history scarcely mentions’ ” Elizabethan women, she turns again to Trevelyan . . . to see what history meant to him. I found...