The Journal of Sir Roger Wilbraham
Author : Sir Roger Wilbraham
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Page : 380 pages
File Size : 46,60 MB
Release : 1902
Category : Great Britain
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Author : Sir Roger Wilbraham
Publisher :
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 46,60 MB
Release : 1902
Category : Great Britain
ISBN :
Author : Roger Wilbraham
Publisher :
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 11,26 MB
Release : 1902
Category : Great Britain
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Author : Sir Roger Wilbraham
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,50 MB
Release : 2023-07-18
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ISBN : 9781019871010
This journal provides a fascinating glimpse into the life of Sir Roger Wilbraham, a prominent figure in 16th-century England. It covers the years when he was Solicitor-General in Ireland and Master of Requests for the Yearly Meeting. The editor, Harold Spencer Scott, provides valuable historical context and insights into the social and political climate of the time. A must-read for historians and anyone interested in 16th-century English politics and society. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Sir Roger Wilbraham
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Page : 139 pages
File Size : 36,68 MB
Release : 1902
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Author : Lorna Hutson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 48,98 MB
Release : 2011-04-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0191615897
The Invention of Suspicion argues that the English justice system underwent changes in the sixteenth century that, because of the system's participatory nature, had a widespread effect and a decisive impact on the development of English Renaissance drama. These changes gradually made evidence evaluation a popular skill: justices of peace and juries were increasingly required to weigh up the probabilities of competing narratives of facts. At precisely the same time, English dramatists were absorbing, from Latin legal rhetoric and from Latin comedy, poetic strategies that enabled them to make their plays more persuasively realistic, more 'probable'. The result of this enormously rich conjunction of popular legal culture and ancient forensic rhetoric was a drama in which dramatis personae habitually gather evidence and 'invent' arguments of suspicion and conjecture about one another, thus prompting us, as readers and audience, to reconstruct this 'evidence' as stories of characters' private histories and inner lives. In this drama, people act in uncertainty, inferring one another's motives and testing evidence for their conclusions. As well as offering an overarching account of how changes in juridical epistemology relate to post-Reformation drama, this book examines comic dramatic writing associated with the Inns of Court in the overlooked decades of the 1560s and 70s. It argues that these experiments constituted an influential sub-genre, assimilating the structures of Roman comedy to current civic and political concerns with the administration of justice. This sub-genre's impact may be seen in Shakespeare's early experiments in revenge tragedy, history play and romance comedy, in Titus Andronicus, Henry VI and The Comedy of Errors, as well as Jonson's Every Man in his Humour, Bartholomew Fair and The Alchemist. The book ranges from mid-fifteenth century drama, through sixteenth century interludes to the drama of the 1590s and 1600s. It draws on recent research by legal historians, and on a range of legal-historical sources in print and manuscript.
Author : Sir Roger Wilbraham
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Page : 139 pages
File Size : 22,87 MB
Release : 1902
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Author : James Sharpe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 43,60 MB
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1136056068
In 1604, 20-year-old Anne Gunter was bewitched: she foamed at the mouth, contorted wildly in her bedchamber, went into trances. Her garters and bodices were perpetually unlacing themselves. Her signature symptom was to vomit pins and "she voided some pins downwards as well by her water or otherwise.." Popular history at its best, "The Bewitching of Anne Gunter" opens a fascinating window onto the past. It's a tale of controlling fathers, willful daughters, nosy neighbors, power relations between peasants and gentry, and village life in early-modern Europe. Above all it's an original and revealing story of one young woman's experience with the greatly misunderstood phenomenon of witchcraft. James Sharpe is Professor of History at York University and the author of "Instruments of Darkness: Witchcraft in" "Early Modern History" and other works of social history.
Author : Roger Wilbraham
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Page : 144 pages
File Size : 33,59 MB
Release : 2019-06-29
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ISBN : 9789389169751
This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. We have represented this book in the same form as it was first published. Hence any marks seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.
Author : Paul E. J. Hammer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 32,94 MB
Release : 1999-06-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780521434850
A revisionist 1999 account of the career of Elizabeth I's 'favourite', the 2nd Earl of Essex.
Author : Peter Elmer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 47,65 MB
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 0198717725
Witchcraft, Witch-hunting, and Politics in Early Modern England constitutes a wide-ranging and original overview of the place of witchcraft and witch-hunting in the broader culture of early modern England. Based on a mass of new evidence extracted from a range of archives, both local and national, it seeks to relate the rise and decline of belief in witchcraft, alongside the legal prosecution of witches, to the wider political culture of the period. Building on the seminal work of scholars such as Stuart Clark, Ian Bostridge, and Jonathan Barry, Peter Elmer demonstrates how learned discussion of witchcraft, as well as the trials of those suspected of the crime, were shaped by religious and political imperatives in the period from the passage of the witchcraft statute of 1563 to the repeal of the various laws on witchcraft. In the process, Elmer sheds new light upon various issues relating to the role of witchcraft in English society, including the problematic relationship between puritanism and witchcraft as well as the process of decline.