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

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