Search Results for early modern English politics

... states between 1450 and 1540. Monastic political involvement also went well beyond the symbolic realm in the medieval and early modern periods. For instance, the com- munity of Syon was intimately engaged in working for the English Cath- olic cause from the time of the Dissolution through...

... in their worldview for divine judgement and eternal life. Burns and Ball repeatedly emphasize that early modern English mortalists, of whom their prime examples after Tyndale are the eclectic group of the young Thomas Browne, Richard Overton, Thomas Hobbes, Milton, and John Locke, were “perfectly sure...

... (2000): 1 – 23; Claire Walker, “Loyal and Dutiful Subjects: English Nuns and Stuart Politics,” in Women and Politics in Early Modern England, 1450 – 1700, ed. James Daybell (Aldershot, Hampshire: Ash- gate, 2004), 228 – 42; Caroline Bowden, “The Abbess and Mrs. Brown: Lady Mary...

...” of the anti-­Marian strain of public discourse in early modern England (Tragic Histo- ries, 35, 27). On the English anti-­Marian campaign and the pamphlet’s role in it, see also James E. Phillips, Images of a Queen: Mary Stuart in Sixteenth-­Century Litera- ture (Berkeley: University...

... University Press 2022 Calvinism theology of redemption human virtue Christian love early modern English politics But your flag decal won't get you into heaven anymore. They're already overcrowded from your dirty little war, And Jesus don't like killing no matter what the reason...

... Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 39:1, Winter 2009 DOI 10.1215/10829636-2008-010  © 2009 by Duke University Press are studied by Alexander Samson. Translation of Spanish texts into English increased dramatically. Samson analyzes the complexity of England’s reaction to Spain...

... these documents in the multifaceted context of early modern Anglo-Russian diplomatic ritual. Although Fletcher’s mission has always attracted the attention of scholars in different disciplines, it has not really been considered in light of diplomatic history. Meanwhile, both the English and Russian records...

... analysis; his contextualization of the political climate in England and Moscow provides an important framework for understanding the ways in which diplomatic recommendation was dispensed, received, and performed. The role of the early modern diplomat is epitomized by Fletcher s embassy: English perceptions...

..., “The Burning of Edward Wightman: Puritanism, Prel- acy, and the Politics of Heresy in Early Modern England,” English Historical Review n.s. 120 (2005): 1215  –  50; Michael Hunter, “ ‘Aikenhead the Atheist’: The Con- text and Consequences of Articulate Irreligion in the Late Seventeenth Century...

... and alternative possibilities of English notions of empire, in The Rule of Moderation: Violence, Religion, and the Politics of Restraint in Early Modern England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), 187–219. 7 David Armitage, The Ideological Origins of the British Empire (Cambridge: Cambridge...

... Copyright © 2024 by Duke University Press 2024 early modern travel narrative Mughal India English trade demography chorography Soon after the acute food shortages of the 1590s, the last decade of Elizabeth’s reign, an order was issued on December 4, 1600 to the London merchants Richard Staper...

... and Early Modern Studies / 34.1 / 2004 9 Davies, First English Empire, 8–9. See also, Patrick Wormald, The Making of English Law: King Alfred to the Twelfth Century, vol. 1 (Oxford: Blackwell, 1999), 449–76, for an assessment of the development of law and the English state. 10 Davies...

... modern” in English drama studies. This essay examines the Ches- ter cycle’s transformation from medieval to early modern drama in light of the instabilities and complexities of sixteenth-century religious culture, pay- ing particular attention to constraints on interpretation posed by these insta...

... Adrian, John M. Local Negotiations of English Nationhood, 1570 – 1680. Early Modern Literature in History. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. x, 238 pp.; 5 illus. $80.00. Altschul, Nadia R. Geographies of Philological Knowledge: Postcoloniality and the Transatlantic National Epic. Chicago...

... in translation on free choice from early modern Reformed theologians with commentary.] Beadle, Richard, ed. The York Plays: A Critical Edition of the York Corpus Christi Play as Recorded in British Library Additional MS 35290, Volume 1: The Text. Early English Text Society, s.s., vol. 23. Oxford: Oxford...

..., Englishmen, and natives, and how these distinctions employ Black Legend discourse to portray Spaniards as barbarous cannibals and make the racially different and unknown natives “like” the English.7 Through repeat- 118 Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 41.1 / 2011 edly suggesting...

.... ix, 133 pp., 5 tables. $70.00. [Edition of a newly discovered early manuscript version of the lost controversial Jubilee book, a set of reforming measures put forward to Edward III. Middle English text followed by modern English translation.] Çelebi, Kātib. An Ottoman Cosmography: Translation...

... II,” which was fol- lowed by Alan Bray’s 1982 comprehensive study Homosexuality in the English Renaissance.4 Since then, scholars led by David Thurn, Jonathan Goldberg, Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 43:1, Winter 2013 DOI 10.1215/10829636-1902540­­   ©...

... or performed as such in early modern England.3 The morality has also been proposed as the formal basis for the history play, buttressed especially by the evidence of one of the earliest plays treating English political history, John Bale’s King Johan, which is a hybrid of the two forms.4 Here...

... University, 2020. lxiv, 407 pp., 6 illus. $30.00. [The only major surviving anthology of Latin lyric poems spanning Charlemagne and the Battle of Hastings. Latin verse texts with facing-page English verse translations.] Blair, Ann, and Nicholas Popper, eds. New Horizons for Early Modern European...