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Largely letters from Verstegan to Robert Parsons and Roger Baynes.
Author : Richard Verstegan
Publisher :
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 50,67 MB
Release : 1959
Category : Catholics
ISBN :
Largely letters from Verstegan to Robert Parsons and Roger Baynes.
Author : John Greenwood
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 16,63 MB
Release : 2004-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1134362706
Volumes five and six contain c. 25 pieces of manuscript material, or rare tracts many of which have been available for the first time.
Author : J. Daybell
Publisher : Springer
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 20,4 MB
Release : 2012-04-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1137006064
The first major socio-cultural study of manuscript letters and letter-writing practices in early modern England. Daybell examines a crucial period in the development of the English vernacular letter before Charles I's postal reforms in 1635, one that witnessed a significant extension of letter-writing skills throughout society.
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Publisher : BRILL
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 30,12 MB
Release : 2023-11-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9004653031
What role has social status played in shaping the English language across the centuries? Have women also been the agents of language standardization in the past? Can apparent-time patterns be used to predict the course of long-term language change? These questions and many others will be addressed in this volume, which combines sociolinguistic methodology and social history to account for diachronic language change in Renaissance English. The approach has been made possible by the new machine-readable Corpus of Early English Correspondence (CEEC) specifically compiled for this purpose. The 2.4-million-word corpus covers the period from 1420 to 1680 and contains over 700 writers. The volume introduces the premises of the study, discussing both modern sociolinguistics and English society in the late medieval and early modern periods. A detailed description is given of the Corpus of Early English Correspondence, its encoding, and the separate database which records the letter writers' social backgrounds. The pilot studies based on the CEEC suggest that social rank and gender should both be considered in diachronic language change, but that apparent-time patterns may not always be a reliable cue to what will happen in the long run. The volume also argues that historical sociolinguistics offers fascinating perspectives on the study of such new areas as pragmatization and changing politeness cultures across time. This extension of sociolinguistic methodology to the past is a breakthrough in the field of corpus linguistics. It will be of major interest not only to historical linguists but to modern sociolinguists and social historians.
Author : Terttu Nevalainen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 33,23 MB
Release : 2014-10-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1317882172
This volume presents a sociolinguistic perspective on the history of the English language. Based on original empirical research, it discusses the social factors that promoted linguistic changes in earlier English, and the people who were the leading force behind them. The authors focus on the major grammatical developments that shaped the language in Tudor and Stuart times, the period that laid the foundations for modern Standard English. Nevalainen and Raumolin-Brunberg adopt an interdisciplinary approach, exploring the extent to which sociolinguistic models and methods can be applied to the history of English.
Author : Peter Lake
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 17,22 MB
Release : 2019-07-11
Category : History
ISBN : 1350049298
Thoroughly updated with newly discovered archival material, this second edition of The Trials of Margaret Clitherow demonstrates that the complicated and controversial life story of Margaret Clitherow is not as unique as it was once thought. In fact, Peter Lake and Michael Questier argue that her case was comparable to those of other separatist females who were in trouble with the law at the same time, in particular Anne Foster, also of York. In doing so, they shed new light on the fascinating stories of these unruly women whose fates have been excluded from Catholic and women narratives of the period. The result is a work which considers the questions of religious sainthood and martyrdom through a gender lens, providing important insights into the relationship between society, the state and the church in Britain during the 16th century. This is a major contribution to our understanding of both English Catholicism and the Protestant regime of the Elizabethan period.
Author : Neil Younger
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 34,83 MB
Release : 2022-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1526159481
This book reassesses the religious politics of Elizabethan England through a study of one of its most unusual figures. Sir Christopher Hatton, a royal favourite turned senior minister, was unique among Elizabeth’s leading ministers in being a consistent supporter of English Catholics and perhaps even some kind of Catholic himself. His influence over the queen was a significant factor in restraining the policy preferences of Elizabeth’s more strongly Protestant advisors, particularly as regards the regime’s religious policy. The book traces Hatton’s life and career, his relationship with Elizabeth, his networks and his involvement in politics. It argues that Hatton’s career casts doubt on claims that Elizabeth’s regime was exclusively Protestant in character and suggests that Catholics and Catholic sympathisers retained a voice in Elizabethan politics.
Author : C. Loomis
Publisher : Springer
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 26,72 MB
Release : 2010-08-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0230112137
The death of Queen Elizabeth I in 1603 was greeted by an outpouring of official proclamations, gossip-filled letters, tense diary entries, diplomatic dispatches, and somber sermons. English poets wrote hundreds of elegies to Elizabeth, and playwrights began bringing her onto the stage. This book uses these historical and literary sources, including a maid of honor's eyewitness account of the explosion of the Queen's corpse, to provide a detailed history of Elizabeth's final illness and death, and to show Elizabeth's subjects - peers and poets, bishops and beggars, women and men - responding to their loss by remembering and reconstructing their Queen.
Author : Paul E. J. Hammer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 48,24 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 : Alexandra Walsham
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 12,68 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198206552
This is an extensive study of the 16th and 17th century belief that God actively intervened in human affairs to punish, reward, warn, try and chastise. It seeks to shed light on the reception, character and broader cultural repercussions of the Reformation.