... cry from modern audiences’ tendency to forsake the creative scholar in favor of the seductive bullshitter. Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 John Dee Brytanici Imperii Limites English historiography historical credibility politics of imperial expansion ...

... history, Estiennot and Neville are read through the lens of feminist formalism. A Maurist and antiquarian, Estiennot wrote a chronicle of the Congregation of the English Benedictine Dames that exemplifies the professional revolution in historiography. Neville, in contrast, cultivated the humbler position...

... conclusions about early modern English performance in light of new research and theory. The article deploys new thinking about performance historiography, arguing that such perspectives unsettle the easy placement of an event in historical chronology, disrupt archival logic, and insist on a degree...

...David Aers; Nigel Smith This special issue is devoted to the English Reformations and current historiography. The title intentionally pluralizes the traditionally singular noun Reformation to signify a scope that includes both the early Reformation (through to 1547) and continuing senses...

... and representation were not problematized in this way, so it is easy to miss the important point here — that, at the very beginnings of English historiography, there were those who refused to recognize that the disciplinary divide placed “representation of reality” in history’s territory. Indeed I would like...

... numbers. 13 See, for example, Allen, A defense and declaration of the Catholike Churchies doctrine, touching purgatory, fol. 32v (image 33) for Melanchthon, and fol. 37r (image 38) for Calvin. 14 For this argument in English historiography, see Thomas Betteridge, “Vernacular...

... to validate a new dynasty’s claim to the English throne.”3 And in Historiography and Ideology in Stuart Drama, Ivo Kamps continues in this vein, arguing that early modern historiography is essentially “orthodox” and that it never “called for radical changes in the monarchy.”4 This refusal...

... in Historiography,” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 90, no. 2 (1946): 91. See also Kevin Sharpe, Sir Robert Cotton, 1586 – 1631: History and Politics in Early Modern England (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979), 17 – 32. In general, see Levi Fox, ed., English Historical...

....” The third special issue (2010) on the transition from medieval to early modern was edited by David Aers and Nigel Smith, a prolific scholar specializing in the writings of the seventeenth-century revolution. This issue emerged from the editors’ conversations about current historiography of the English...

...., Sacred History. 59 For overviews of these trends to 1995, see Rosemary O’Day, The Debate on the English Reformation (London: Methuen, 1986); Patrick Collinson, “The English Reforma- tion, 1945 – 1995,” in Companion to Historiography, ed. Bentley, 336 – 60; Alec Ryrie...

...- ing suggestions. Most of all, however, I would like to thank the editors for permitting me to express my great affection, admiration, and appreciation of Liz Clark in this manner. Unless otherwise noted, the English translations in the following are my own. 1Alan Cameron, “The Empress...

... connections without generalizing and glossing over differences among the English themselves. The “spatial turn” in the field of history also helped to conceptualize how social practices shaped spatial relations. Applied to Reformation historiography, spatial history opened the possibility of exploring how...

... Elizabeth is the prime English example of historically based claims to the New World. Dee, an acclaimed scientist and mathematician who was closely involved with early English voyages to America led by Humphrey Gilbert and Martin Frobisher,8 wrote several texts largely dedicated to proving that England...

... of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 34.3 / 2004 to the fourteenth centuries that Robert S. Lopez dubbed the “commercial revolution of the Middle Ages,” or what others are showing was the increas- ing complexity of English capital markets—due in no small part to lowered interest rates and the sorts...

...Sarah Beckwith; James Simpson The deepest periodic division in English literary history is between the “medieval” and the “early modern,” not least because the cultural investments in maintaining that division are exceptionally powerful. Narratives of national and religious identity and freedom...

..., was wielded as an argument on behalf of the Roman papacy during the Avignon crisis and schism. As the English pilgrim and chronicler John Capgrave would articulate this argument in the fifteenth century, “Ther is grete question a mongis studious men whi rome hath swech grete pryuylege pat christendam...

..., association, or ecology. Nonetheless, we see that historiographies of the Mediterranean do grant possession: to the Romans, to Philip II, to Christians and Muslims, or to Dutch, French, and English trading companies, with Phoenicians, Jews, and other diasporas, intermediaries, transgressors...

... of the English and Russian archives with acknowledgment of what can- not be known at our own cultural distance. We will never know, for example, just why the tsar rejected Elizabeth s gift. Did it fall short of expectations set by previous English missions? Did the tsar and his ministers mistake honorary medals...

...: Stofnun Árna Magnússonar á Í slandi, 2001. clxxiv, 399 pp. Paper isk 4,210. [Old Norse text of the prose romance with its source, the Anglo-Norman epic Boeve de Haumtone , on facing pages, and English commentary.] Anon. The Latin Chronicle of the Kings of Castile [Chronica latina regum Castellae...

... httpmedren.aas.duke.edu/jmems Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 39:2, Spring 2009 DOI 10.1215/10829636-2008-029  © 2009 by Duke University Press English Reformations: Historiography, Theology, and Narrative Volume 40 / Number 3 / Fall 2010 Edited by David Aers and Nigel Smith...