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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Tudor England"”.
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Catholic and Protestant martyrdom in Tudor England
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Justices of the Peace in Mid-Tudor England, 1547-1569
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A Man Moste Meete': A Nationwide Survey of Justices of the Peace in Mid-Tudor England, 1547-1582
… English justices of the peace (JPs) in the mid-Tudor era. It incorporates comparable data from the reigns of Edward VI, Mary I, and the Elizabeth I. Much of the analysis is quantitative in nature: chapters compare the appointments of justices of the peace during the reigns of Edward VI, Mary I, …
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Visualizing Ancient Empire in Tudor England: Imperial Monarchy, Reformation, and the Antique Soldier in the Title Page to Richard Grafton’s Large Chronicle (1569)
… at large and meere history of the affayres of Englande </em>(1569) by the Tudor author Richard Grafton. Representing the visual synthesis of several distinct but interrelated currents that developed in the preceding century, the title page to the <em>Large Chronicle</em> offers a rare glimpse …
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The cook as physician: medical philosophy, nutrition, and diet in England, 1450-1650
… in 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 …
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“I wyl poure out the wordes of sorrowe”: politics in the Protestant and Catholic settings of Psalms 51 and 79 during the English Reformation
The music of the Tudor era in England reflected the period’s political instability. This instability had its roots in, among other things, the religious movement known as the Reformation. Protestant and Catholic factions relied upon biblical texts, sermons, tracts and other circulating works to …
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Margaret Roper and Mary Basset: The Influence of Christian Humanism on the Education of Thomas More's Daughter and Granddaughter
… of the stability and prosperity of early-Tudor England. This contrasts the relationship that her daughter Mary Basset's had to the same issues, which was characteristic of the uncertainty of her time a generation later in the tumultuous first generation of the English Reformation. Both …
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Violence, (dis) Loyalties And The English Subject-Citizen, 1569 - 1588
… <p>This dissertation examines how late Tudor government strove toward national cohesion amid religio-political diversity. Strategies of fear and love galvanized resistance and security amongst groups. The 1584 Bond of Association was the apogee of an effort to create unity through …
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Language, Land, and Law: Laurence Nowell's Anglo -Saxon Studies in Sixteenth-Century England
… his 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 …
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The misericords of Beverley Minister : a corpus of folkloric imagery and its cultural milieu, with special reference to the influence of Northern European iconography on Late Medieval and Early Modern English woodwork
… tombs) at work in late medieval and early Tudor England -- much of it assembled here for the first time.
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Evangelical Ecclesiology and Liturgical Reform in the Edwardian Reformation, c. 1545-1555
… of reforming the visible temporal institution of Tudor England? The overarching argument of this study is that, in the eyes of the reformers, the formal liturgy of the Church of England, as defined by the Prayer Book, formed a nexus between the temporal and spiritual realms so that the invisible …
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Advertising America: The Printing, Publication, and Promotion of English New World Books, 1553-1600
… paratexts to and physical features of English Tudor books about the New World presented the books’ content to their original readers. The contribution this thesis makes to knowledge is threefold. First, the field of study of English travel and colonial literature lacks a bibliographically …
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Twisting Tales: a guide to fairytale adaptation
… accomplished by crafting a world modeled after Tudor England, utilizing tapestries as a device for the visuals, with Ruth Goodman’s <em>How to Be a Tudor</em> as a source. The essay presents readers with a tool to navigate, evaluate, and create fairytale adaptations on their own, and encourages …
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Katherine of Aragon: Marriage, Scholarship and Remembrance
… scholarship and political successes of women in Tudor England are undermined by the overwhelming importance of marriage. This will be shown through the case study of Katherine of Aragon, who was a highly acclaimed and virtuous woman of her time. Katherine’s unusual education led her to be active …
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Networks, News and Communication: Political Elites and Community Relations in Elizabethan Devon, 1588-1603
… alliances underpinned politics and governance in Tudor England; but whereas a great deal is now understood about relations between both the political elite and the organs of government at the centre of affairs, many questions still remain unanswered about how networks of political actors …
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Creativity with Purest Energy: How Sir Thomas Wyatt Introduced Modern English Poetics
… the forefront of an ambitious, sure and powerful England which eventually came into place during his life and afterwards. Wyatt marks the start of a new literary period when humanity and art gradually diverged from religious rites and instruction, dramatic impulses for romantic love and mere …
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Performing at the Block: Scripting Early Modern Executions
… the 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 …
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Performing at the Block: Scripting Early Modern Executions
… the 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 …
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Flesh, Blood, and Puffed-Up Livers: The Theological, Political, and Social Contexts behind the 1550-1551 Written Eucharistic Debate between Thomas Cranmer and Stephen Gardiner
… VI’s reign, religious practice and doctrine in England were still quite uncertain and unstable. Thomas Cranmer was attempting to institute more reforms, taking England further from its traditional religious roots and relying on his authority as Archbishop to legislate and enforce the religious …