• Introduction The Continuation of Gregory's Chronicle The First Battle of St Albans Howard's Chronicle Warkworth's Chronicle The Siege of Bamborough Castle The Chronicle of the Rebellion in Lincolnshire The Manner and Guiding of the Earl of Warwick The History of the Arrival of King Edward IV Explanatory Notes Textual Notes Bibliography Glossary Index.
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The eight chronicles edited here are the principal surviving historical narratives of the Wars of the Roses written in English by men who lived through those wars. These are the best accounts by commoners (and one lord) written for their fellow Englishmen, produced within a few years of the events they describe, and have a particular immediacy. Five of these chronicles recount in detail particular events: The First Battle of St Albans (21-23 May 1455) and The Siege of Bamburgh Castle (June-July 1464) (batttles); The Rebellion in Lincolnshire (March 1470), and The History of the Arrival of King Edward IV (March-May 1471) (campaigns); and The Manner and Guiding of the Earl of Warwick (22-30 July 1470) (negotiations). The remaining three describe the development of the larger conflict over extended periods: the Continuation of Gregory's Chronicle (1450-69), Howard's Chronicle (1461-70), and Warkworth's Chronicle (1461-74). They do not cover the last stages of the Wars of the Roses, since by the end of May 1471, it must have looked as if the conflict was permanently resolved. These accounts, although contemporary, have to be treated with caution. All of them are narratives of public events intended for public consumption. They remain, however, vibrant and immediate accounts of the events they describe in a systematic, modern edition.
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• Un homme, des paysages. Charles-Alexandre de Baert-Duholandt et la Britannia
• Le voyage en Angleterre, en Ecosse et en Irlande, 1786-1788
• Arrivée en Angleterre et le sud du pays
• Juillet 1786
• Watford
• Gaddesden
• B erkamsted
• Latimers
• St Albans
• Hatfield
• Beechwood
• Market-street
• Luton
• Luton
• Stockwood
• Wooburn
• Brighthelmstone 16 août 1786
• Riegate
• Arundel
• Chichester
• Ports Bridge
• Portsmouth
• G osport
• Isle de Wight
• Cowes
• Newport
• Caresbrook Castle
• Southampton
• Winchester
• Salisbury
• Langford
• Wilton
• Stonehenge
• Stonehenge
• Old Sarum
• Pinperne - Blanford
• Milton Abbas
• Blachmoor
• Dorchester
• Maiden Castle, octobre 1786
• Weymouth
• L'Ile de Portland et Bath
• Isle de Portland
• Castle-Carey, Shepton-Mallet
• Bath, décembre 1786
• Prior-Parc
• Lansdown's monument 3 janvier 1787
• Bristol
• Bristol, janvier 1787
• Hot-Wells
• King's Weston
• Corsham 24 janvier 1787
• Philips-Norton
• Stourton
• Telbury
• Cirencester, Burford, Witney
• Dorchester
• Henley, Maidenhead
• Colnbrook
• Brentford
• Kew
• Richmont
• Autour de Londres
• Twickenham
• Hampton Court
• Painshill
• Kingston
• Windsor, mai 1787
• Eton
• mai 1787
• Welwyn
• De Cambridge à Norfolk
• Cambridge
• Newmarket
• Bury St Edmund
• Ipswich
• Yarmouth
• Norwich
• Lynn
• Nottingham
• Clifton
• Derby
• Derby
• Keddleston
• Ashbourn
• Ackoever
• D ove-dale
• Buxton
• Chatsworth
• En route vers Sheffield
• Matlock, fin mai 1787
• Mansfield, Hardwick
• Ollerton
• Sandbeck
• Roche-Abbey
• Rotherham
• Sheffield
• Wentworth-house
• Harnesley
• De Leeds à Berwick
• Wakefield
• Leeds
• Beverley
• Hull
• York
• York, juin 1787
• Harewood
• Newbie
• Studley
• Hockfall
• Becte
• D arlington
• Durham
• Newcastle
• Morpeth
• Alnwick
• Berwick
• Edinburgh et environs
• Dunbar
• Edinbourg, juin 1787
• Leith
• À propos d'Edimbourg
• Leith (à nouveau)
• Ro slin
• Hawthorden
• Linlithgow
• Les Lowlands
• Falkirk
• Carron
• Borrows tonnes s
• Culross
• Stirling
• Kinross et Lac Leven
• Perth
• Scoon [Scone]
• Locardie
• Stanley
• Dunkeld
• Kenmore
• Lac Tay [Loch Tay]
• Taymouth
• Blair
• Les Highlands
• Inverness, juillet 1787
• Fort George
• Loch Ness
• Fall of Fyres
• Fort Auguste
• Tow Down
• Lac Oich
• Loch Lochy
• Fort William
• Le pays de Fingal
• Linn Loch
• Ile de Mull
• Lac Levin
• Lac Créran
• Lac Etive
• Oban
• Mull, Duarn-Castle
• Arros
• Turloisk
• Ulva
• Staffa
• colmkill
• Mull
• Bunaw, Lac Awe
• Inverary
• Luss
• Lac Lochmond

• Glasgow et les environs
• Dumbarton
• Glasgow
• Paisley
• Port Glasgow
• Greenock
• Renfrew
• Hamilton
• Lanark, Chutes du Clyde
• Mo ffat
• Dumfries
• Annan
• Gratney-green
• Longtown
• Réflexions sur l'Ecosse
• La région de Carlisle
• Carlisle (fin juillet-début d'août 1787)
• Penrith
• Keswick
• Derwent-water
• Skiddaw
• B as senthwaite-water
• Swinside-Hill, Newland's Vale
• Cronmack water [Crummock Water]
• Borrowdale
• Leathes water
• Grasmere
• Rydal, Rydal-Hall
• Ambleside
• Coniston-water
• Hawkshead
• Windermere
• Bowness
• De Lancaster à Manchester
• Kendal
• Claythop-Clints
• Dunald-Mill-Hole
• Lancastre
• Gars tand
• Preston
• Manchester et Liverpool
• Bolton
• Manchester, août 1787
• Canal du Duc de Bridgewater
• Warrington, Prescott, Liverpool
• Warrington
• Prescott
• Liverpool
• Chester
• Holywell
• St Asaph
• Couway
• L'Irlande du Nord
• Fin août-octobre 1787
• Bangor
• Anglesey
• Holy-Head
• Sworda
• Drogheda
• Colon
• Dundaik
• Newry
• Banbridge
• Ballynahinch
• Montalto
• Hillsborough
• Belfast
• Antrim
• Shanes Castle
• Lough Neagh
• Buss-Mill, septembre 1787
• Coleraine
• Down-Hill
• Londonderry
• Lifford
• Strabane
• Donegald
• Ballyshannon
• Enniskillen
• Lac Erne
• Irlande. Le centre
• Athlone
• Bird
• Nenagh
• Limerick
• Newton-Pery
• Adair
• Newcastle
• Castle-Island
• Killarney - Lacs Mac Gilly Guddy Recks
• Cork
• Clomnell
• Cathel
• Dublin
• Tallagh
• Tallow
• Lismore
• Cappoquin
• Marino
• Leixlip
• Ca s tle-town
• Black-rock
• Le Dargle
• Wicklow
• Arkow
• Gorey
• Ferns
• New-Ross
• Waterford
• New-Genève
• Milfort Haven
• Pays de Galles
• Milfort Haven
• Haverford-West
• Carmarthen
• Brecon
• Leotnins ter
• Ludlow
• Shrewsbury
• Shropshire : la Révolution industrielle
• Coole-Brook Dale
• Shefnal, Shropshire
• Wolverhampton
• Stourbridge
• Hagley
• Hales-owen
• The Leasowers
• Birmingham et ses environs. Octobre-novembre 1787
• Coventry
• Le pays de William Shakespeare
• Warwick
• Stratford
• Ship ton
• Woodstock
• Blenheim Palace
• Oxford
• Nuncham
• Buckingham
• Stowe
• Aylesbury
• Vallée d'Aylesbury vers Londres
• Wendower, Vale d'Aylesbury
• Quatre jours à Londres
• Woolwich
• Dartford
• Gravens end
• Rochester
• Chatham
• Cantorbury
• Douvres
• Sandwich
• Margate
• Londres
• Du 9 février au 4 juillet 1788
• Maisons, rues et trottoirs
• Spitlefield
• Billinsgate
• La Bourse
• Mansion's House
• Guildhall
• Smithfield
• Newgate
• La cathédrale
• Temple-bar
• British Museum
• Somerset house
• Covent-Garden

• Strand
• Whitehall
• L'abbaye de Westminster
• Eglise de St Jean
• Parc St James
• Pall-Mail
• Piccadily
• Grosvenor Square
• À propos de Londres
• Albion-Mill
• Pont de Black-Friars
• Pont de Westminster
• Chelsea
• Kensington
• Hampstead et Highgate
• Réflexions en quittant Londres
• Industries et commerce
• La police
• Tavernes
• Coût de la vie
• La manière de vivre
• Spectacles
• Voleurs et libertinage
• Pollution
• Pauvreté
• Vers les Cornouailles
• Juillet 1788
• D ep tford
• Greenwich
• Windsor
• Reading
• Newbury
• Malborough
• Gaine
• B ow-Wood
• Warminster
• S ommers ton
• Taunton
• Wellington
• Exeter
• Plymouth
• Mount-Edgecumbe
• Saltash
• Liskeard
• St Austle
• Truro
• Penryn
• Falmouth
• Mines de cuivre
• St Mawes
• Traversée en Portugal, mi-juillet 1788
• Annexe I. Le manuscrit et son auteur, recherche biobibliographique
• Annexe II. Baert, explorateur de la Russie méridionale en 1784.

"Cette petite ville qu'on appelle Abercouway est entourée d'un mur avec beaucoup de tours rondes, et contient plusieurs petites rues et quelques bonnes auberges dans l'une desquelles j'écris mon journal au son d'une harpe dont en joue fort joliment un aveugle. Ce propos date de 1788 et a été jeté sur un énorme carnet de voyage par le Baron Charles-Alexandre de Baert-Duholandt (Saint-Orner, 1751/Paris, 1825), un voyageur infatigable, tombé dans l'oubli le plus complet en raison, notamment, de la Révolution et de l'Empire qui l'ont contraint à une trop prudente discrétion. Pourtant son manuscrit Voyage en Angleterre, en Ecosse et en Irlande [entre 1786 et 1788] est fabuleux, unique, car il rapporte village après village, château après château, ville après ville, tout ce qu'il a vu dans cette Grande-Bretagne de la fin du Siècle des Lumières. Baert est attentif à tout et sa plume traduit toute l'atmosphère de cette Britannia à la fois si shakespearienne et si moderne. Nous sentons vibrer l'admiration pour les paysages, le sublime, la mer, les montagnes, les villages anglais ou écossais. Nous parcourons grâce à lui des châteaux aux parcs magnifiques, aux chambres remplies de tableaux, de sculptures, d'antiques, aux bibliothèques et aux cabinets de curiosité. Nous saisissons aussi les premiers bruits de la Révolution industrielle : la machine à vapeur de James Watt, le pont de fonte d'Ironbridge, les premiers hauts fourneaux au coke... Et nous rencontrons grâce à notre voyageur quelques savants qui ont inventé la modernité : le Docteur Adam Smith par exemple. L'anglomanie est partout, la celtomanie enflamme Charles-Alexandre lorsqu'il foule, ému aux larmes, le sol de Staffa, l'île de Fingal et l'ombre du divin Ossian accompagne notre voyageur..."--Page 4 of cover.

• Introduction
• 1 The Lady Anne Clifford's Memoir, 1603
• 2 Countess of Dorset's Diary, 1616, 1617 and 1619
• 3 The Life of Me the Lady Anne Clifford, 1589-1649
• 4 The Lady of the North, Yearly Memoirs, 1650-75
• 5 Countess of Pembroke's Daybook, 1676 Index
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Anne Clifford (1590-1676) was a prominent noble woman in the seventeenth century. During her long life she experienced the courts of Elizabeth, James and Charles I. She fought a decades long battle to secure her inheritance of the Clifford lands of the north, providing a spirited and legally robust defense of her rights despite the opposition of powerful men, including James I. She eventually inherited the Clifford lands, and she describes her subsequent struggles to reclaim her authority in these lands still mired in the civil wars. Her autobiographies reveal her joys and griefs within a vivid description of seventeenth-century life. They reveal a personality that was vulnerable and determined; charitable and canny. Her autobiographies provide a window into a vibrant world of seventeenth-century life as lived by this complex and intriguing seventeenth-century woman. -- .
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During the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, texts about the recent and more distant past were produced in remarkable numbers in the lands controlled by the kings of England. This may be seen, in part, as a response to changing social and political circumstances in the wake of the Norman conquest of England in 1066. The names of many of the twelfth and thirteenth-century historians are well known, and they include Orderic Vitalis, William of Malmesbury, John of Worcester, Henry of Huntingdon, Gerald of Wales, and Matthew Paris. Yet the manuscripts in which these works survive are also evidence for the involvement of many other people in the production of history, as patrons, scribes, and artists. Illuminated History Books in the Anglo-Norman World focuses on history books of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries to examine what they reveal about the creation, circulation, and reception of history in this period. In particular, this research concentrates on illuminated manuscripts. These volumes represent an additional investment of time, labour, and resources, and combinations of text and imagery shed light on engagements with the past as manuscripts were copied at specific times and places. Imagery could be used to reproduce the features of older sources, but it was also used to call attention to particular elements of a text, and to impose frameworks onto the past. As a result, Illuminated History Books in the Anglo-Norman World has the potential to change the way in which we see the medieval past and its historians.
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• La traduction de /'Historia regum Britannie de Geoffroy de Monmouth dans la rédaction C
• Examen des variantes de la quatrième partie
• Remarques sur la langue de C
• Proverbes et expressions sentencieuses
• Variantes de C
• Texte intégral de l'Historia regum Britannie de Geoffroy de Monmouth dans la rédaction C .

"Cet ouvrage vient en complément de l'édition intégrale du roman de Perceforest, qui s'est échelonnée entre 1987 et 2015. Il remédie à la disparité qui s'était introduite dans le choix des variantes entre les premiers volumes parus (Quatrième parti, Troisième partie, tomes I et II) et les volumes ultérieurs. La publication de ces variantes, souvent dignes d'intérêt, permettra de mieux comprendre les mécanismes de réécriture dans la copie de David Aubert (rédaction C) et de préciser, en les confirmant, les analyses de Gilles Roussineau sur la genèse de l'oeuvre et sur sa tradition manuscrite. Le savant éditeur a également joint la traduction complète de l'Historia Regum Britannie de Geoffroy de Monmouth dans la version inédite de David Aubert (Première partie) ainsi que quelques compléments à l'étude de la langue du manuscrit C, plus particulièrement en ce qui concerne le lexique."--Page 4 of cover.

“Ironically first edited from an Anglo-Norman copy, then, definitively, from a manuscript from the author’s native Touraine, the Histoire des ducs de Normandie after many years of neglect has received in the last twenty years significant attention, culminating in this authoritative translation with notes by the foremost Anglo-Normanist Ian Short. Benoît de Sainte-Maure’s massive enterprise (it numbers 44,544 lines, of which the last quarter are translated here) was started soon after his celebrated Roman de Troie and at the request of Henry II takes up the task relinquished by Wace in the Roman de Rou. Writing in French in rhyming octosyllabic couplets Benoît provides a monastic, providentialist view of his subject, seeking to reconnect Henry’s French-speaking aristocracy to their Continental heritage and to give a wider secular audience access to the Latin sources. Short’s translation brings to a wider readership a work that fills a significant gap in the development and character of vernacular historiography.” — Anthony Hunt, University of Oxford (Back cover)

• Introduction : Thomas Pennant, Curious Traveller / Mary-Ann Constantine and Nigel Leask
• "A round jump from ornithology to antiquity" : The Development of Thomas Pennant's Tours / R. Paul Evans
• 2. Thomas Pennant : Some Working Practices of an Archaeological Travel-Writer in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain / C. Stephen Briggs
• 3. Heart of Darkness : Thomas Pennant and Roman Britain / Mary-Ann Constantine
• 4. Constructing Identities in the Eighteenth Century : Thomas Pennant and the Early Medieval Sculpture of Scotland and England / Jane Hawkes
• 5. Shaping a Heroic Life : Thomas Pennant on Owen Glyndwr / Dafydd Johnston
• 6. "The First Antiquary of his Country" : Robert Riddell's Extra-Illustrated and Annotated Volumes of Thomas Pennant's Tours in Scotland / Ailsa Hutton and Nigel Leask
• 7. "A galaxy of the blended lights" : The Reception of Thomas Pennant / Elizabeth Edwards
• 8. "As if created by fusion of matter after some intense heat" : Pioneering Geological Observations in Thomas Pennant's Tours of Scotland / Tom Furniss
• 9. Geological Landscape as Antiquarian Ruin : Banks, Pennant and the Isle of Staffa / Allison Ksiazkiewicz
• 10. Pennant, Hunter, Stubbs and the Pursuit of Nature / Helen McCormack
• 11. Pennant's Legacy : The Popularization of Natural History through Botanical Touring and Observation in Nineteenth-Century Wales / Caroline R. Kerkham
• Short Bibliography of Thomas Pennant's Tours in Scotland and Wales.

"Thomas Pennant of Downing, Flintshire (1726-1798), naturalist, antiquarian and self-styled 'Curious Traveller, ' published accounts of his pioneering travels in Scotland and Wales to wide acclaim between 1769 and 1784. He directly inspired Johnson, Boswell and hundreds of subsequent travellers. In Wales, he is known as the 'Father of Cambrian Tourism.' A keen observer and cataloguer of everything from plants, birds and minerals to ancient monuments and modern fisheries, he corresponded with a vast network of leading natural scientists and antiquarians. The 'Tours, ' widely read and much imitated, indisputably helped bring about a richer, more complex understanding of the multiple histories and cultures of Britain at a time when 'Britishness' was itself a fragile and developing concept. This collection seeks to address the comparative neglect of Pennant's travel writing by bringing together researchers from literary criticism, art history, Celtic studies, archaeology and natural history. Attentive to the visual as well as textual aspects of his topographical enquiries, it rehabilitates a neglected aspect of the Enlightenment in relation to questions of British identity, offering a new assessment of an important chapter in the development of domestic travel writing"-- Provided by publisher.

• Preface
• Introduction
• The Inns of Chancery
• Origins and outline histories of particular inns
• The statutes and orders of the Inns of Chancery
• The internal organisation of the inns
• Admission, residence and commons
• The exercises of learning
• Student life and behaviour.

• Historical Introduction Note on the Text Three Seventeenth-Century Receipt Books: I. MS V.a.430 Receipt Book attributed to Mary Granville and Anne Granville D'Ewes Translations of Spanish Recipes II. MS V.a.20 Receipt Book attributed to Constance Hall III. MS V.a.450 Cookery and Medical Receipt Book attributed to Lettice Pudsey Culinary, Medical, and Household Terms Glossary Works Cited.
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Apricot wine and stewed calf's head, melancholy medicine and "ointment of roses." Welcome to the cookbook Shakespeare would have recognized. Preserving on Paper is a critical edition of three seventeenth-century receipt books-handwritten manuals that included a combination of culinary recipes, medical remedies, and household tips which documented the work of women at home. Kristine Kowalchuk argues that receipt books served as a form of folk writing, where knowledge was shared and passed between generations. These texts played an important role in the history of women's writing and literacy and contributed greatly to issues of authorship, authority, and book history. Kowalchuk's revelatory interdisciplinary study offers unique insights into early modern women's writings and the original sharing economy.
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• Historical Introduction Note on the Text Three Seventeenth-Century Receipt Books: I. MS V.a.430 Receipt Book attributed to Mary Granville and Anne Granville D'Ewes Translations of Spanish Recipes II. MS V.a.20 Receipt Book attributed to Constance Hall III. MS V.a.450 Cookery and Medical Receipt Book attributed to Lettice Pudsey Culinary, Medical, and Household Terms Glossary Works Cited.
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Apricot wine and stewed calf's head, melancholy medicine and "ointment of roses." Welcome to the cookbook Shakespeare would have recognized. Preserving on Paper is a critical edition of three seventeenth-century receipt books-handwritten manuals that included a combination of culinary recipes, medical remedies, and household tips which documented the work of women at home. Kristine Kowalchuk argues that receipt books served as a form of folk writing, where knowledge was shared and passed between generations. These texts played an important role in the history of women's writing and literacy and contributed greatly to issues of authorship, authority, and book history. Kowalchuk's revelatory interdisciplinary study offers unique insights into early modern women's writings and the original sharing economy.
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• Contents: Introduction-- The Scottish Commonwealth: from George Buchanan to David Hume-- Britain's lost Renaissance: from citizen to subject-- David Hume and radical Britain-- The De Unione and its fate-- Book One-- Book Two: Andrew Melville's letter-- To the reader-- The necessity of a union founded on mutual love-- The name: Britannia-- Emblems and insignia-- Treaties and ordinances-- The councils-- The Parliament-- Offices-- Currency-- Commerce-- Laws and the courts-- Immunities and privileges-- Association-- Exhortation-- Marriage-- Education-- Colonies-- Religion-- The oath-- A British order of knighthood-- Triennial visits-- Society-- Prayers for Britain-- Summary of the argument-- Apologia-- Bibliography-- Index.
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De Unione Insulae Britannicae (The British Union) is a unique seventeenth-century tract that urged the fusion of the Scottish and English kingdoms into a new British commonwealth with a radically new British identity. Its author, David Hume of Godscroft (1558-c.1630) was a major intellectual figure in Jacobean Scotland and the leading Scottish critic of the anglicizing policies of James VI. The tract was written in two parts. Published in London in 1605, the first part provides a general outline of the imperative of union. The second consists of political and constitutional proposals whereby such a union might be achieved. Its publication was suppressed and it exists only in manuscript. This is the first translation of the tract. Hume's work is breathtakingly contemporary in some of the proposals that it makes; regional assemblies combined with a national parliament, and a call for efforts to inspire the Scottish and English people into a sense of common purpose. The language and ideas of the tract display characteristics of the Renaissance combined with elements that visibly anticipate the Enlightenment. The De Unione offers extraordinary insight into the European intellectual world prior to the rise of romantic nationalism in the early nineteenth century.
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The Life of Mr Richard Savage was the first important book by an unknown Grub Street hack, Samuel Johnson, who would later become the most celebrated British writer of the late 1700s. Richard Savage (1697-1743) was a poet, playwright, and satirist who claimed to be the illegitimate son of a late earl and to have been denied his inheritance and viciously persecuted by his mother. He was urbane, charming, a brilliant conversationalist, but also irresponsible and impulsive. His role in a tavern brawl almost led him to the gallows, though his life was saved by an eleventh-hour pardon by the King. Over time he attracted many supporters, practically all of whom he managed to alienate by the time of his death in a debtors' prison in Bristol. Johnson, who had been friends with Savage for a little over a year, drew on published documents and his own memories of Savage to produce one of the first great English biographies.The edition is supplemented by other writings by Johnson, a selection of Savage's prose and verse, contemporary and posthumous responses to Savage and to Johnson's biography, and selections by Johnson's first two major biographers, John Hawkins and James Boswell. A discussion of factual errors in Johnson's account help the reader place the Life and the supplementary texts in their historical and intellectual contexts.
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"A brilliant account of one of the seventeenth century's most dashing lives". (Ruth Scurr). "A master storyteller. Full of exquisite details, but with the grandest themes...this is a gripping adventure story". (Zia Haider Rahman). "Gripping and extraordinary". (Ann Wroe). On the 16th of August 1628, five battle-scarred English ships sailed into the harbour of the Greek island of Milos. Dropping anchor, the 25-year-old captain banqueted with the local lord before sitting down to write an account of his journey - an account that would transform him entirely. Sir Kenelm Digby was one of the most remarkable Englishmen who ever lived: a trusted advisor to the King, but the sworn enemy of the all-powerful Duke of Buckingham; a pioneering philosopher and scientist, but committed to the occult arts of alchemy and astrology; a friend not only of Ben Jonson, Thomas Hobbes and van Dyck, but even Oliver Cromwell. He was also widely known as the 'son of a traytor and husband of a whore': a man who witnessed his father's gruesome execution for high treason as a Gunpowder Plotter, and the lover of the most celebrated beauty of the age, Venetia Stanley. In an attempt to clear his name, and on a quest for personal glory, Digby assembled a fleet and set sail for the Mediterranean: a world of pirate cities and ancient ruins where people, ideas and exotic goods moved freely between languages and nations. His journey - encompassing fevers, mutiny, piracy, daring rescues and heroic sea battles - is a great and terribly overlooked adventure, and a prism through which to view England, and all of Europe, during one of the most pivotal periods in its history. A Stain in the Blood is the story of an extraordinary life, and of a journey that helped to shape a nation. It is a revelatory first work of non-fiction by one of the brightest young writers and thinkers of today.
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• Introduction: Jonson's 'foot voyage' and the Aldersey manuscript-- My gossip Jonson his foot voyage and mine into Scotland-- Contextual essays--
• 1. The genres of a walk--
• 2. Jonson's foot work--
• 3. Scenes of hospitality-- Works cited-- Index.
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At the heart of this book is a previously unpublished account of Ben Jonson's celebrated walk from London to Edinburgh in the summer of 1618. This unique firsthand narrative provides us with an insight into where Jonson went, whom he met, and what he did on the way. James Loxley, Anna Groundwater and Julie Sanders present a clear, readable and fully annotated edition of the text. An introduction and a series of contextual essays shed further light on topics including the evidence of provenance and authorship, Jonson's contacts throughout Britain, his celebrity status, and the relationships between his 'foot voyage' and other famous journeys of the time. The essays also illuminate wider issues such as early modern travel and political and cultural relations between England and Scotland. It is an invaluable volume for scholars and upper-level students of Ben Jonson studies, early modern literature, seventeenth-century social history, and cultural geography.
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• Contents: Introduction, Appendix: Boyle's desiderata for science-- Boyle's early intellectual evolution: a reappraisal-- Boyle and the early Royal Society: a reciprocal exchange in the making of Baconian science, Appendix: text of Oldenburg's version of Boyle's 'general heads'-- Boyle, Narcissus Marsh and the Anglo-Irish intellectual scene in the late 17th century-- The disquieted mind in casuistry and natural philosophy: Boyle and Thomas Barlow-- Boyle and secrecy-- Boyle and the uses of print-- Boyle and the supernatural-- 'Physica Peregrinans, or the Travelling Naturalist': Boyle, his informants and the role of the exotic,
• Appendix 1: extant portion of Boyle's 'The aspireing naturalist (a philosophical romance)',
• Appendix 2: 'Physica Peregrinans, or the Travelling Naturalist': narratives from hitherto unpublished manuscripts-- Index.
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The significance of Robert Boyle (1627a "91) as the most influential English scientist in the generation before Newton is now generally acknowledged, but the complexity and eclecticism of his ideas has also become increasingly apparent. This volume presents an important group of studies of Boyle by Michael Hunter, the leading expert on Boylea (TM)s life and thought. It forms a sequel to two previous books: Huntera (TM)s Robert Boyle: Scrupulosity and Science (2000) and The Boyle Papers: Understanding the Manuscripts of Robert Boyle (2007). Like them, it conveniently brings together material otherwise widely scattered in essay volumes and academic journals, while nearly a third of the booka (TM)s content is hitherto unpublished. The collection opens with a substantial introduction that places the studies that follow in the context of existing studies of Boyle; appended to it is an annotated edition of Boylea (TM)s telling list of desiderata for science. The next three essays comprise a group of essentially biographical studies, exploring various aspects of Boylea (TM)s life and intellectual evolution, after which three others provide further evidence of the a "convoluteda (TM) Boyle divulged in Robert Boyle: Scrupulosity and Science. Finally, we have two chapters, one hitherto published only in French and the other not at all, which throw important light on topics that preoccupied Boyle in the last few years of his life a " the supernatural and the exotic. Together, these essays add greater depth to our understanding of Boyle, both as an individual and as a natural philosopher.
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• Volume
• 1. Text
• volume
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Sir John Prise (1501/2 - 1555), of Brecon, was an influential lawyer and administrator during the reigns of King Henry VIII, King Edward VI and Queen Mary I. In the 1530s he was brought under the aegis of Thomas Cromwell, to whose family he became connected by marriage, and was appointed visitor and commissioner for the dissolution of monasteries in England and Wales. The experience made him acutely aware of the wealth of manuscripts contained in these religious houses, and alone among the commissioners he set about saving material from their libraries. In 1540 he was appointed secretary of the Council in the Marches of Wales and made his home in Hereford, in the dissolved Benedictine Priory of St Guthlac: it remained his base for the last fifteen years of his life, a time in which he combined public duty with a deep commitment to literary and scholarly pursuits. In 1546 he was responsible for the printing of Yny lhyvyr hwnn, the earliest printed book in the Welsh language. His greatest work, however, is his Latin book, Historiae Britannicae Defensio. It is notable not only for its author's knowledge of British antiquity, founded on years of study of manuscript and other sources including - most importantly for Prise - material in Welsh, but also for the range of its learning, its lucid Latinity and the forensic quality of its arguments. The present work brings John Prise's Historiae Britannicae Defensio back into print for the first time since 1573. The facing English translation is the first published translation of the Defensio. The work is accompanied by an extensive introduction and elucidatory notes.
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In the twelfth century, a version of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle was rewritten at Peterborough Abbey, welding local history into an established framework of national events. This text has usually been regarded as an exception, a vernacular Chronicle written in a period dominated by Latin histories. This study, however, breaks new ground by considering the Peterborough Chronicle as much more than just an example of the accidental longevity of the Chronicle tradition. Close analysis reveals unique interpretations of events, and a very strong sense of communal identity, suggesting that the construction of this text was not a marginal activity, but one essential to the articulation of the abbey's image. This text also participates in a vibrant post-Conquest textual culture, in particular at Canterbury, including the writing of the bilingual F version of the Chronicle; its symbiotic relationship with a wider corpus of Latin historiography thus indicates the presence of shared sources. The incorporation of alternative generic types in the text also suggests the presence of formal hybridity, a further testament to a fluid and adaptable textual culture. Dr Malasree Home teaches at Newcastle University.
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Twenty experts in law, linguistics, literature, history, and religion analyze one of the most important books produced in medieval England. 0'Textus Roffensis', a Rochester Cathedral book of the early twelfth century, holds some of the most significant texts issued in early medieval England, ranging from the oldest English-language law code of King Æthelberht of Kent (c. 600) to a copy of Henry I's Coronation Charter (5 August 1100). Textus Roffensis also holds abundant charters (including some forgeries), narratives concerning disputed property, and one of the earliest library catalogues compiled in medieval England. While it is a familiar and important manuscript to scholars, however, up to now it has never been the object of a monograph or collection of wide-ranging studies. The seventeen contributors to this book have subjected 'Textus Roffensis' to close scrutiny and offer new conclusions on the process of its creation, its purposes and uses, and the interpretation of its laws and property records, as well as exploring significant events in which Rochester played a role and some of the more important people associated with the See. The work of the contributors takes readers into the mind of the scribes and compiler (or patron) behind the 'Textus Roffensis', as well as into the origins and meaning of the texts that the monks of early twelfth-century Rochester chose to preserve. The essays contained here not only set the study of the manuscript on a firm foundation, but also point to new directions for future work.

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Compilation, Word Selection, and Presentation
• 3. Elyot and His Readers
• 4. Early Records of Regional Variation
• 5. Linking Lemma and Gloss
• 6. Authorial Reference Points
• 7. Translating and Explaining Headwords: Elyot's predecessors
• 8. Translating and Explaining Headwords: Elyot's practice
• 9. Elyot's Achievement as a Lexicographer
• 10. Elyot's Dictionary: impact and influence
• Bibliography
• Index.
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Sir Thomas Elyot's Latin-English dictionary, published in 1538, became the leading work of its kind in England. Gabriele Stein describes this pioneering work, exploring its inner structure and workings, its impact on contemporary scholarship, and its later influence. The author opens with an account of Elyots life and publications. Sir Thomas Elyot (c. 1490-1546) was a humanist scholar and intellectual friend of Sir Thomas More. He was employed by Thomas Cromwell in diplomatic and official capacities that did more to impoverish than enrich him, and he sought to increase his income with writing. His treatise on moral philosophy, The Boke named the Governour, was published in 1531, and dedicated to Henry VIII. His popular treatise on medicine, The Castell of Helth, published some years later, went through seventeen editions. Professor Stein then considers how and why Elyot decided to compile a Latin-English dictionary. She looks at the guiding principles, the organization he devised, and the authors and texts he used as sources. She examines the books importance for the historical study of English, noting the lexical regionalisms and items of vulgar usage in the Promptuorum parvulorum and the dictionaries of Palsgrave and Elyot before discussing Elyots linking of lemma and gloss, and use of generic reference points. She explains how Elyot translated and defined the Latin headwords and compares his practice with his predecessors. The author ends with a detailed assessment of Elyots impact on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century dictionaries and his place in Renaissance lexicography. Her exploration of the work of an outstanding sixteenth-century scholar will interest historians of the English language, lexicography, and the intellectual climate of Tudor England.
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"Lorsque Jacques VI d'Écosse succède en 1603 à la reine Élisabeth d'Angleterre sous le nom de Jacques 1er, il est déterminé à mettre en pratique la théorie du droit divin. L'occasion lui est donnée à la suite de plusieurs complots contre sa personne, notamment le complot des poudres (Gunpowder plot) le 5 novembre 1605. Il impose un serment d'allégeance afin de s'assurer de la loyauté des catholiques anglais. Ce serment met à nouveau à jour leurs divisions internes, et ce d'autant plus que la papauté intervient pour les décourager de le prononcer. Commence alors une controverse qui va prendre une ampleur européenne, par la parution de l'Apologie pour le serment d'allégeance du roi Jacques, le Triplici nodo, Triplex cuneus. Contre ce texte qui dévoile en contexte catholique ses conceptions théologico-politiques du pouvoir royal, le pape Paul V demande au cardinal jésuite Robert Bellarmin de répondre. Par la structure argumentative par laquelle s'opposent les deux protagonistes pour justifier leur plaidoyer en faveur, l'un, de la monarchie de droit divin, l'autre, de la papauté, ce sont deux interprétations des rapports du temporel et du spirituel qui sont en jeu."--P. [4] of cover.

• Cover; Contents; Editor's Introduction: Reading Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, 1792-2014; Text; A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (London, second edition, 1792); Essays; Are Women Human? Wollstonecraft's Defense of Rights for Women; "Genius will educate itself." The British Literary Context of Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and Its Legacy for Women; The Personal Is Political: Wollstonecraft's Witty, First-Person, Feminist Voice; Reading Mary Wollstonecraft in Time; Appendixes.

• Biographical Directory for Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of WomanThe Life and Times of Wollstonecraft and Her Family, 1688-1818; A Vindication of the Rights of Woman within the Women's Human Rights Tradition, 1739-2015; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Contents; CHAP. I. The rights and involved duties of mankind considered; CHAP. II. The prevailing opinion of a sexual character discussed; CHAP. III. The same subject continued; CHAP. IV. Observations on the state of degradation to which woman is reduced by various causes.

• CHAP. V. Animadversions on some of the writers who have rendered women objects of pity, bordering on contemptCHAP. VI. The effect which an early association of ideas has upon the character; CHAP. VII. Modesty.-Comprehensively considered, and not as a sexual virtue; CHAP. VIII. Morality undermined by sexual notions of the importance of a good reputation; CHAP. IX. Of the pernicious effects which arise from the unnatural distinctions established in society; CHAP. X. Parental affection; CHAP. XI. Duty to parents; CHAP. XII. On national education.

Mary Wollstonecraft's visionary treatise, originally published in 1792, was the first book to present women's rights as an issue of universal human rights. Ideal for coursework and classroom study, this comprehensive edition of Wollstonecraft's groundbreaking feminist argument includes illuminating essays by leading scholars that highlight the author's significant contributions to modern political philosophy, making a powerful case for her as one of the most substantive political thinkers of the Enlightenment era. No other scholarly work to date has examined as closely both the ideological moorings and the enduring legacy of Wollstonecraft's courageous discourse.
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• Introduction. Manuscript case notes in practice
• Lawrence's notes of cases
• Conclusion
• Manuscripts of Sir Soulden Lawrence. Middle Temple Library, ms. 49
• Lincoln's Inn Library, Dampier manuscripts.

A seventeenth-century English traveler to the Eastern Mediterranean would have faced a problem in writing about this unfamiliar place: how to describe its inhabitants in a way his countrymen would understand? In an age when a European education meant mastering the Classical literature of Greece and Rome, he would naturally turn to touchstones like the Iliad to explain the exotic customs of Ottoman lands. His Turk would have been Homer's Turk. An account of epic sweep, spanning the Crusades, the Indian Raj, and the postwar decline of the British Empire, Homer's Turk illuminates how English writers of all eras have relied on the Classics to help them understand the world once called "the Orient." Ancient Greek and Roman authors, Jerry Toner shows, served as a conceptual frame of reference over long periods in which trade, religious missions, and imperial interests shaped English encounters with the East. Rivaling the Bible as a widespread, flexible vehicle of Western thought, the Classics provided a ready model for portrayal and understanding of the Oriental Other. Such image-making, Toner argues, persists today in some of the ways the West frames its relationship with the Islamic world and the rising powers of India and China. Discussing examples that range from Jacobean travelogues to Hollywood blockbusters, Homer's Turk proves that there is no permanent version of either the ancient past or the East in English writing-the two have been continually reinvented alongside each other.
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Spanning the Crusades, the Indian Raj, and the postwar decline of the British Empire, Homer's Turk illuminates how English writers of all eras have relied on Greek and Roman literature to help them understand the world once called "the Orient." Even today, the Classics frame the West's relationship with the Islamic world, India, and China.
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A seventeenth-century English traveler to the Eastern Mediterranean would have faced a problem in writing about this unfamiliar place: how to describe its inhabitants in a way his countrymen would understand? In an age when a European education meant mastering the Classical literature of Greece and Rome, he would naturally turn to touchstones like the Iliad to explain the exotic customs of Ottoman lands. His Turk would have been Homer's Turk. An account of epic sweep, spanning the Crusades, the Indian Raj, and the postwar decline of the British Empire, Homer's Turk illuminates how English writers of all eras have relied on the Classics to help them understand the world once called "the Orient." Ancient Greek and Roman authors, Jerry Toner shows, served as a conceptual frame of reference over long periods in which trade, religious missions, and imperial interests shaped English encounters with the East. Rivaling the Bible as a widespread, flexible vehicle of Western thought, the Classics provided a ready model for portrayal and understanding of the Oriental Other. Such image-making, Toner argues, persists today in some of the ways the West frames its relationship with the Islamic world and the rising powers of India and China. Discussing examples that range from Jacobean travelogues to Hollywood blockbusters, Homer's Turk proves that there is no permanent version of either the ancient past or the East in English writing-the two have been continually reinvented alongside each other.
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• Introduction
• Chapter I. Legal records
• Chapter II. Correspondence
• Chapter III. Newspapers
• Chapter IV. Possible attributions
• Chapter V. Miscellaneous
• Appendix 1. Maps of Vassa's travels
• Appendix 2. Vassa chronology
• Appendix 3. The middle passage.

• Introduction: 'The Name of a Queene'-- Dennis Moore PART I: THE DIALOGUE
• 1. William Fleetwood's Itinerarium ad Windsor-- Dennis Moore PART II: THE PARTICIPANTS
• 2. William Fleetwood and Itinerarium ad Windsor-- Charles Beem
• 3. Itinerarium ad Windsor and Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester-- Jacqueline Vanhoutte
• 4. 'Marvellously Given to Be Antiquaries': William Fleetwood's Itinerarium and Thomas Sackville, Lord Buckhurst-- Rivkah Zim PART III: ITINERARIUM AD WINDSOR AS HISTORY
• 5. Wading in 'The Troublesome Seas... of Antiquityes': William Fleetwood as Antiquary and Historian-- James D. Alsop
• 6. Itinerarium ad Windsor and English Queenship-- Carole Levin and Charles Beem
• 7. 'Bloody Mary'? Changing Perceptions of England's First Ruling Queen-- Sarah Duncan.
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Itinerarium ad Windsor concerns a central question of the Elizabethan era: Why should a woman be allowed to rule with the same powers as a king? The man who poses this controversial question within Itinerarium is none other than Queen Elizabeth's powerful favorite Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. On hand to provide answers are the statesman and poet Thomas Sackville, Lord Buckhurst, and William Fleetwood-antiquary, Recorder of London, and dutiful chronicler of their 1575 conversation. This critical edition of Itinerarium reproduces Fleetwood's text with annotations and a host of interpretive and contextualizing essays from leading scholars. Taken together, they constitute the definitive introduction to this remarkable discussion of regnant queenship, providing a valuable tool for understanding contemporary notions of and underlying fears concerning the efficacy and desirability of female rule in Elizabethan England.
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• v. 1. Preface, Books I to IV
• v. 2. Book V
• v. 3. Books VI to VIII.

• List of figures and tables
• List of contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Abbreviations
• 1. Introduction Sara Pennell and Michelle DiMeo PART I: Methodologies
• 2. Authorship and medical networks: reading attributions in early modern manuscript recipe books' Michelle DiMeo
• 3. 'A practical art': an archaeological perspective on the use of recipe books Annie Gray
• 4. Genre conventions in English recipes, 1600-1800 Francisco Alonso- Almeida PART II: Textuality and intertextuality
• 5. Reading recipe books and culinary history: opening a new field Gilly Lehmann
• 6. The 'Quintessence of Wit': poems and recipes in early modern women's writing Jayne Elisabeth Archer
• 7. The Foote sisters' Compleat Housewife: cookery texts as a source in lived religion Lauren F. Winner PART III: Cultures of circulation and transmission
• 8. Cooking the books, or, the three faces of Hannah Woolley Margaret J. M. Ezell
• 9. Crossing the boundaries: domestic recipe collections in early modern Wales Alun Withey
• 10. 'Lett her refrain from all hott spices': medicinal recipes and advice in the treatment of the King's Evil in seventeenth-century south-west England Anne Stobart
• 11. Making livings, lives and archives: tales of four eighteenth-century recipe books Sara Pennell Select Bibliography Index.
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This collection of essays provides an overview of new scholarship on recipe books, one of the most popular non-fiction printed texts in, and one of the most common forms of manuscript compilation to survive from, the pre-modern era (c.1550-1800). This is the first book to collect together the wide variety of scholarly approaches to pre-modern recipe books written in English, drawing on varying approaches to reveal their culinary, medical, scientific, linguistic, religious and material meanings. Ten scholars from the fields of culinary history, history of medicine and science, divinity, archaeology and material culture, and English literature and linguistics contribute to a vibrant mapping of the aspirations invested in, and uses of, recipes and recipe books. By exploring areas as various as the knowledge economies of medicine, Anglican feasting and fasting practices, the material culture of the kitchen and table, London publishing and concepts of authorship and the aesthetics of culinary styles, these eleven essays (including a critical introduction to recipe books and their historiography) position recipe texts in the wider culture of the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. They illuminate their importance to both their original compilers and users, and modern scholars and graduate students alike.
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This edition features a shrewd, annotated abridgment of Mary Wollstonecrafts A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) accompanied by an array of texts that help situate the Vindication in its political, historical, and intellectual contexts. Included are key selections from Wollstonecrafts other writings; from closely related works by Burke, Paine, Godwin, Rousseau, Macaulay, Talleyrand, and Brockden Brown; and from the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen and de Gouges Declaration of the Rights of Woman and Female Citizen (1791).
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The chronicle covers the history of Normandy and England around the Norman Conquest of England with special reference to the earls of Warenne in Normandy...[it] emphasizes the loyal support of the earls to the Norman rulers. -- introduction

• Part I : Joseph Pitts : sailor, slave, traveller, pilgrim / by Paul Auchterlonie. Introduction
• 1. Algiers: a corsoar state
• 2. Joseph Pitts : the man and his background
• 3. A faithful account of the religion and manners, 1731
• Conclusion
• Part II : A faithful account of the religion and manners of the Mahometans, by Joseph Pitts of Exeter : the full 1731 text.

Long before European empires came to dominate the Middle East, Britain was brought face to face with Islam through the activities of the Barbary corsairs. For three centuries after 1500, Muslim ships based in North African ports terrorized European shipping, capturing thousands of vessels and enslaving hundreds of thousands of Christians. Encountering Islam is the fascinating story of one Englishman's experience of life within a Muslim society, as both Christian slave and Muslim soldier. Born in Exeter around 1662, Joseph Pitts was captured by Algerian pirates on his first voyage in 1678. Sold as a slave in Algiers, he underwent forced conversion to Islam. Sold again, he accompanied his kindly third master on pilgrimage to Mecca, so becoming the first Englishman known to have visited the Muslim Holy Places. Granted his freedom, Pitts became a soldier, going on campaign against the Moroccans and Spanish before venturing on a daring escape while serving with the Algiers fleet. Crossing much of Italy and Germany on foot, he finally reached Exeter seventeen years after he had left. Joseph Pitts's A Faithful Account of the Religion and Manners of the Mahometans, first published in 1704, is a unique combination of captivity narrative, travel account and description of Islam. It describes his time in Algiers, his life as a slave, his conversion, his pilgrimage to Mecca (the first such detailed description in English), Muslim ritual and practice, and his audacious escape. A Christian for most of his life, Pitts also had the advantage of living as a Muslim within a Muslim society. Nowhere in the literature of the period is there a more intimate and poignant account of identity conflict. Encountering Islam contains a faithful rendering of the definitive 1731 edition of Pitts's book, together with critical historical, religious and linguistic notes. The introduction tells what is known of Pitts's life, and places his work against its historical background, and in the context of current scholarship on captivity narratives and Anglo-Muslim relations of the period. Paul Auchterlonie, an Arabist, worked for forty years as a librarian specializing in Middle Eastern and Islamic studies, and from 1981 to 2011 was librarian in charge of the Middle East collections at the University of Exeter. He is the author and editor of numerous works on Middle Eastern bibliography and library science, and has recently published articles on historical and cultural relations between Britain and the Middle East. He is currently an Honorary Research Fellow at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter.
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• Introduction
• 1. Resisting Uniformity 1660-1664
• 2. The Second Anglo Dutch War 1664-1667
• 3. The Second Conventicle Act 1667-1670
• Conclusions
• Appendix
• Bibliography.
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The restoration of the monarchy in 1660 has commonly been thought to represent a return to political stability and religious consensus following the tumultuous civil wars and the Commonwealth period. However, by analysing underground texts from 1660 to 1670, Stephen Bardle provides a new literary historical narrative of what was in fact one of the most tumultuous periods in English history. This new study contributes to an on-going historical re-evaluation of the Restoration period, a time when terrible plague, the Great Fire of London, and a brutal war against the Dutch quickly undermined the popularity of the new government. The Literary Underground in the 1660s tells the story of three writers who fuelled the flames of opposition by contributing illicit texts to a small yet intense public sphere via the literary underground. Key texts by Andrew Marvell, including The Garden, are set in the context of under-explored works by the poet and pamphleteer George Wither, and the indomitable satirist Ralph Wallis. This book draws upon extensive archival research and features neglected manuscript and print sources. As an original study of the literary underground, which sheds light on the vibrancy of political opposition in the 1660s, this book should be of interest to students of radicalism as well as seventeenth-century historians and literary scholars.
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• Introduction Chronology Glossary 'Vain, stupid, profane games.' Medieval attitudes to the playing of sports on the Sabbath and other holy days The Impact of the Break with Rome The Reign of Elizabeth I and the battle over the Lord's Day James I's 'dancing book' and the politicisation of 'Saint Sabbath' Book of Sports - and the reign of Charles I: From a 'pious Statue' to 'bloody civil war' Enforcement and Reaction: choosing between the 'Commandments of God and Man' Conclusion Appendix: The text of the 1633 - Book of Sports Notes and references Bibliography Index.
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"The Book of Sports" was the royal declaration which sanctioned popular participation in traditional pastimes after church attendance on Sunday. It was denounced by a vociferous opposition who viewed recreation on the Sabbath as the devil's work. Alistair Dougall takes a fresh look at the events surrounding the re-publication of the "Book of Sports" in 1633 and reassesses the role of Charles I himself in the controversy. He re-examines the cultural battle that emerged as a result of the tension between Sunday observance and traditional revelry and demonstrates how a new form of 'sabbatarianism' became the hallmark of the radical Protestants who sought to suppress all Sunday recreations. The book also makes an important contribution to the ongoing debate surrounding the causes of division in English society which led to the outbreak of civil war in 1642.
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• Introduction
• Nedham and his classical sources
• The text and the notes
• The excellencie of a free-state.

• Introduction
• Nedham and his classical sources
• The text and the notes
• The excellencie of a free-state.

• GENERAL INTRODUCTION
• TEXTUAL INTRODUCTION
• PART I: LANGUAGE-PLANNING
• A Common Writing
• The Ground-Work
• An Essay Towards an Universal Alphabet
• Concerning a Perfect, Universall Alfabeth
• Of The Universall Language
• A Designe Towards an Universall Alfabet
• That the Alfabet and orthografy of the English Tongue is Defective
• PART II: THEOLOGY
• Certain Observations
• Miscellany Discourses
• 'Of the Universe' and Other Essays
• PART III: A COUNTRY NOT NAMES
• PART IV: MISCELLANEOUS TEXTS AND CORRESPONDENCE
• Essay on Maintaining an Army in Peace-Time
• Essay on Trade
• Proposals for Rebuilding London
• Aphorisms
• Form of Prayer
• Lodwick's Correspondence
• COMMENTARIES, TEXTUAL APPARATUS AND BIBLIOGRAPHIES
• Index.
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Francis Lodwick FRS (1619-94) was a prosperous merchant, bibliophile, writer, thinker, and member of the Royal Society. He wrote extensively on language, religion, and experimental philosophy, most of it too controversial to be safely published during his lifetime. This edition includes the first publication of his unorthodox religious works alongside groundbreaking writings on language. Following an extensive introduction by the editors the book is divided into three parts. Part One includes A Common Writing (1647), the first English attempt at an artificial language, and the equally pioneering phonetic alphabet set out in An Essay Towards an Universal Alphabet (1686). Part Two contains a series of linked short treatises on the nature of religion and divine revelation, including 'Of the Word of God' and 'Of the Use of Reason in Religion', in which Lodwick argues for a new understanding of the Bible, advocates a rational approach to divine worship, and seeks to reinterpret received religion for an age of reason. The final part of the book contains his unpublished utopian fiction, A Country Not Named: here he creates a world to express his most firmly-held opinions on language and religion, and in which his utopians found a church that bans the Bible. The book gives new insights into the religious aspects of the scientific revolution and throws fresh light on the early modern frame of mind. It is aimed at intellectual and cultural historians, historians of science and linguistics, and literary scholars - indeed, at all those interested in the interplay of ideas, language, and religion in seventeenth-century England.
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• Desire of many marvels, 1597-1627. Europe ; Constantinople ; The Balkans
• Company man, 1628-31. The Mughal Empire
• On the road, 1631-34. Travelling in northern India
• The dragon and the sun, 1636-39. Madagascar ; Southern India ; Sumatra ; Macao
• Home from home, 1639-47. Southern England and Wales ; The Netherlands ; Danzig ; Archangel
• Amor de la patria and the price of spice, 1647-57. Cornwall ; Southern India ; The great oceans
• Deaths and entrances, 1657-67. Cromwellian and Restoration London ; Cornwall.

Peter Mundy was a seventeenth-century merchant trader who spent most of his life travelling the world. Even by the standards of his own day, his journeys to Istanbul, India, China, Danzig (Gdansk), Russia, and the Arctic were remarkable. His account of these travels, illustrated with his own lively drawings of the strange people and animals he met, survives in a single manuscript. This edited selection provides a fascinating, vivid account of early modern lives and times in all their barbarity and brilliance. It includes encounters with the Ottoman, Mughal, Chinese, and Russian empires and Mundy's eyewitness accounts of the first contact between Britain and China, exhausting journeys through India, and events in London following Charles II's coronation in 1661. This edition is from the seventeenth-century manuscript of the Travels of Peter Mundy, first edited by Sir Richard Carnac in five volumes for the Hakluyt Society, 1905-36. Historians and lovers of travel literature alike will find this extraordinary account of one man's adventures across the globe a compelling read and an invaluable resource.
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