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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Jacobean England"”.
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Ideal and practice : aspects of noble life in late Elizabethan and Jacobean England
The thesis investigates what sixteenth and seventeenth century humanists thought about the role of the nobility in society; their views about the proper education of the nobility (including its expected cost) and way of life they considered appropriate to a nobleman. It then tries to consider how …
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Performing at the Block: Scripting Early Modern Executions
… of noble men and women in Tudor and early Jacobean England and the theatrical representations of executions that mirrored real life spectacles of deadly punishment. Historical scaffold confessions followed a formulaic pattern and condemned traitors performed their final moments before a …
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Performing at the Block: Scripting Early Modern Executions
… of noble men and women in Tudor and early Jacobean England and the theatrical representations of executions that mirrored real life spectacles of deadly punishment. Historical scaffold confessions followed a formulaic pattern and condemned traitors performed their final moments before a …
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Making offense A Skill: The Vice, the Machiavel, and the Problem of Legitimacy In Shakespearean Histories
… circumstances, when connected to the politics of Jacobean England, reveals how Shakespeare's revision of quasi-historical events serves as a warning about the potential for political and national tragedy.</p>
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The Shaping of a Pilgrim: A Discussion of the English and Continental Religious Literature Influencing Separatism and the Pilgrims
… part of the religious Literature of Tudor and Jacobean England, as well as that of the European continent of those days, which presumably could have reached the small villages on or near the Great North Road. Such literature could and undoubtedly did influence Francis Cooke's thinking to such …
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Theorising the will in early modern English literature
… concern for a vast range of Elizabethan and Jacobean writers, largely because of the important role the notion of the will played in the development of classical philosophy and the reformation of Christian theology. Providing a coherent definition of the will, its powers and associated …
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Giovanni Botero and English Political Thought
… Botero (1544–1617) in early-seventeenth century England. It examines how Botero was translated for an English audience, and reconstructs the debates to which Botero was relevant and helped stimulate in late Elizabethan and Jacobean England. Part I examines the publication history of Botero’s …