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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Sixteenth-century England"”.
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Sanctuary in Sixteenth-Century England
On the eve of the sixteenth century, sanctuary in England operated under the common law in much the same manner as it had done for centuries. ‘Common’ sanctuaries (a customary right pertaining to all churches and churchyards) permitted felons to seek refuge for a maximum of forty days, before they …
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Language, Land, and Law: Laurence Nowell's Anglo -Saxon Studies in Sixteenth-Century England
… projects to national identity formation in Tudor England. Nowell wrote thousands of Old English words, drawn mostly from the Grammar and Glossary of the Anglo-Saxon abbot AElfric, next to the Modern English-Latin entries of the printed dictionary. Nowell's glosses could not have been used to look …
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Music copyists in late sixteenth-century England, with particular reference to the manuscripts of John Baldwin.
… in English music manuscripts of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, with one scribe, John Baldwin (d.1615), as its point of reference and centre of interest. Baldwin is known to be the copyist of three manuscripts: British Library, R.M.24.d.2, also known as his Commonplace …
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Poor Relief, Agrarian Laws, and Redistribution in England, c. 1450–1601
… an intellectual history of redistribution in sixteenth-century England, extending from poor relief, through agrarian laws, to proposals to transform propriety itself. It begins with two chapters on poor relief, identifying a common inheritance from the Bible and early church which provided a …
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The cook as physician: medical philosophy, nutrition, and diet in England, 1450-1650
… the culinary recipes of late-medieval and Tudor England reflects the influence of ancient and medieval medical philosophy on the practices of the upper-class cook. Much of the literature treating the subject of diet in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century England has concentrated upon the role that …
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Methods of Revision in Sixteenth-Century English Cycle Drama
<p>This dissertation contends that guilds-folk in sixteenth-century England made their own changes to the play-texts of civic drama and that these changes remain visible to us in the manuscripts which preserve the plays. Further, it argues that the actors and pageant-makers themselves often made …
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Tales of Resistance: Combating Legal Power from Italian Shores to London Streets
… shift from local to state legal authority in sixteenth century England. By recovering the Italian sources of popular English plays and pamphlets, I establish English authors’ engagement with Italian law, in which legal authority was already invested in court powers removed from local …
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The Life and Writings of Thomas Becon, 1512-1567
… widely published vernacular devotional author in England until the later decades of the sixteenth-century. Despite his influence in early modern England, Becon has received little scholarly attention. When his works are studied, they are simply mined for quotations, rather than contextualised and …
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Renaissance humanism in England, c.1490-c.1530
… Greece and Rome, in late fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century England. It does so with reference to texts, institutional settings, and networks both within and beyond England, and examines the activities of several seemingly minor figures who have been absent from recent scholarship on the …
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Childbirth Beliefs and Practices in England, c. 1400-1580
… and objects that women used in childbirth in England from 1400 to 1580. Faced with the dangers of parturiency, women employed a set of practices which they believed would ensure their survival. Using an interdisciplinary approach influenced by histories of the senses and emotions, the thesis …
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Justice in the Court of Requests, 1483-1538
… of justice in late-fifteenth- and early-sixteenth-century England. It traces the processes by which this aspect of governance was formalised in a time of personal monarchy and supposedly ‘revolutionary’ governmental reform. Its primary focus is the hitherto little-studied Court of …
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Reading "Monstrous" Humans in Reformation England
… for interpreting human and bodily difference in sixteenth-century England. Taking the notion of ‘monstrosity’ as its starting point, it demonstrates how the doctrine of providence was deployed in a wide range of texts to explain visible differences between and within human groups. I use the term …
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"Verie needfull for this time" : representations of women in sixteenth-century English prayer manuals.
… by different authors, this thesis argues that sixteenth-century English prayer manuals set rigid boundaries for women by representing them in limited ways. Analyzing and comparing Thomas Becon's The Flour of Godly Praiers (1550), Thomas Bentley's The Monument of Matrones (1582), and Anne …
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The Musical Education and Involvement of the Six Wives of Henry VIII
The first half of sixteenth-century England was a land permeated by religious upheaval and political instability. Despite being a land fraught with discord, it was a time of great advances in education, theology, and the musical arts. Henry VIII, king of England during this time, married six …
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Book-Burning and the Banning of Books and Authors in England, 1526 - 1558: A Sixteenth-Century Fire-Library
… as heretical (and sometimes seditious) by England’s clergy, monarchs, and Privy Councils between the years 1526 and 1558. My analysis is supported by my Appendix of Banned Books and Authors, which lists specific book titles, unspecified books, and specific authors that were prohibited in …
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The Whole Booke of Psalmes, Protestant Ideology, and Musical Literacy in Elizabethan England
… the most popular printed music book published in England in the sixteenth century. This dissertation argues that in addition to its identities as scriptural text and monophonic musical score, the WBP functioned as a music instructional book, intended by its publishers to improve popular music …