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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Early Stuart"”.
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Daniel Featley and Calvinist Conformity in Early Stuart England
… his story and thought to the broader themes of early Stuart religious, political, and intellectual history. Chapter one analyses the first thirty- five years of Featley’s life, exploring how many of the features that underpin the major themes of Featley’s career—and which reemerged throughout …
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The Queen's and Embassy Chapels and the Boundaries of Tolerance in Early Stuart London, c. 1603-1643
… chapels. A central tension at the heart of early modern society was the imperative to uphold religious uniformity while living with confessional diversity after the Reformation. This was especially pronounced in cosmopolitan London where people of multiple faiths lived in close proximity. …
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'For a decent order in the Church' : ceremony, culture and conformity in an early Stuart diocese, with particular reference to the See of Westminster
… focusses upon the use of the arts in the early Stuart church. The first of these chapters concentrates on the visual arts, and the way in which they were used, particularly with regard to their hierarchical arrangement. The second turns attention to the aural arts, examining the …
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Protestant jurisdictionalism and the nature of puritanism, c. 1559–1642
… throughout the Elizabethan and early Stuart periods. A key finding is that Elizabethan and early Stuart puritanism can only be understood within the broader European context of Protestant kingdoms, territories, and city-states codifying and enforcing church discipline according …
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Jacobean secretary: the political career of Sir Ralph Winwood (1563-1617)
… made no concerted effort to stay the erosion of early Stuart government. Proud, arrogant, and conceited are terms which aptly characterize the man; but his sincere protestantism and hatred of Spain more clearly reflected the temper of his age than the vacillations of James I. Except for a brief …
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Hebraic Puritans: Old Testament Politics in Early New England
… state. Chapter 2 continues the narrative through early Stuart and Interregnum England, positing that Plymouth Colony drew deeply on Hebraic sources for a variety of political issues. Chapter 3 turns to Massachusetts, focusing on the evolution of political Hebraism in the colony through the career …
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“Beaten on Both Sides”: A Reevaluation of the Anti-Calvinism of Andrewes, Neile, and Laud
This is a case of mistaken identity. Under the early Stuart kings, James I and Charles I, a ragtag group of churchmen challenged the orthodoxy and orthopraxy of the Church of England and catalyzed civil war. They have been called the first true Anglicans, papist plotters, idolatrous traitors, and …
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The culture and rhetoric of the answer-poem:1485-1625:with a supplementary 'Select catalogue of answer-poetry in print and manuscript, 1485-1625'
… rhetoric of the answer-poem during the Tudor and early-Stuart periods, charting the phenomena that led answer-poetry to become a prominent mode of social interaction in Renaissance literature. The answer-poem is symptomatic of a culture fixated with codes and theories of social dialogue. In this …
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Inigo Jones's library and the language of architectural classicism in England, 1580-1640
Inigo Jones's collection of books is a unique and early survival of an architect's annotated library. The combination of standard sixteenth century Italian and French editions of classics, mathematical and scientific treatises, and specialized architectural books, comprised the library of a …
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Women who wreak havoc: a new perspective on early modern drama, 1603-1642
… of women in the non-Shakespearean plays of early Stuart England (1603-1642). The chapters progress chronologically, locating common themes of the period, which I analyse independently in each chapter, and consider in the conclusion comprehensively. The introduction serves to present these …
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Seasons and Sovereigns: Succession in the Greenworld, 1579 - 1621
… to develop an overarching theory of how or why early modern subjects charted environmental stability over time. <bold>Seasons and Sovereigns</bold> addresses this occlusion by studying the course of nature as it pertains to sudden dissolution, long periods of stability, or constant change in …
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Your Change Is Still Behind: Futurity in Early Modern Literature
… is a critical evaluation of the concept of early modern futurity, of which I propose three categories: "Material futurity"; "Biological futurity"; and "Political futurity." In the moments that I identify in texts composed during the Tudor and early Stuart reigns in England, I demonstrate …
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Peter Oliver and the Miniature in Stuart England
… IV discusses the portrait miniature at the early Stuart court. The prevailing narrative in scholarship is that under Charles I, art production and collecting was transformed by an increased awareness of Continental visual modes. This chapter questions the extent to which this occurred by …
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Reproducing Women: Female Bodily Narratives and English Patriarchies, 1600-1660
During the early Stuart period, England’s return to male monarchal rule resulted in the emergence of a political analogy that understood the authority of the monarch to be rooted in the “natural” authority of the father; consequently, the mother’s authoritative role within the family was repressed. …