Early modern
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A Picture of Pageantry and the Arches of Triumph: dramatic, visual, and literary representations of James I and the new Stuart dynasty through Thomas Dekker’s account of the 1604 Royal Entry and Stephen Harrison’s design for its setting by M Castelletti |
Focussing on the printed account of Thomas Dekker’s ‘The Magnificent Entertainment’ and the arches designed by architect Stephen Harrison (... |
socio-political, pageant, Early modern | view | |
Arms and the Man by Marie Harrison |
Weaponry and military equipment often has a role that extends beyond the merely functional. Through a juxtaposition of Shakespeare’s... |
weaponry, Early modern, Shakespeare, rapier, British culture | view | |
Bensalem’s Legal System by Francis Bacon (New Atlantis) and James I (True Law): Representations of God, kingship, knowledge and peace by Andres Font Galarza |
This paper compares Bensalem's legal system in Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis with James I’s True Law tract. Whilst differing in form – fiction and... |
Francis Bacon, Early modern, James I, Jacobean | view | |
Bodleian Library BODcasts |
Podcasts from the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Includes talks on literature and literary manuscripts. |
Manuscripts, Books, Romantic, Early modern, Renaissance, Drama, Poetry, Fiction, Letters | view | |
Clergy of the Church of England, 1540-1835 |
Makes available and searchable the principal records of clerical careers from over 50 archives in England and Wales with the aim of providing... |
Genealogy, Ecclesiastical History, Church history, 19th century, 18th century, 17th century, 16th century, Early modern, History | view | |
Early Modern Culture Online |
Open-access peer-reviewed journal on early modern literature and culture. |
Early modern, Renaissance, Criticism, Analysis | view | |
Early Modern Literary Studies |
Open-access peer-reviewed journal on literature and language of the sixteenth-seventeenth centuries. |
Early modern, Renaissance, Sixteenth-century, Seventeeth-century, Criticism | view | |
Early modern women’s letter writing viewed through the lenses of portraiture and dramatic text by Deborah Richards |
This essay will explore the epistolary activity of early modern women through the media of portraiture and dramatic text. It will... |
Early modern | view | |
English Timeline |
An interactive timeline from the British Library exploring the evolution of English language and literature, 1000 AD-present. |
Fiction, Poetry, Drama, Books, Early modern, Renaissance, Romantic, Victorian, Modernism, Postmodernism, Contemporary | view | |
Fashioning Statements of Sovereignty and Self: The Language of Gloves in Early Modern Elite Society by Jane Rae |
Building on the work of scholars who have turned to the glove as a valuable primary object to study, this paper considers two artefacts: Mary... |
Early modern, gloves, Elizabeth I | view |