scholarly journals Representations of India on Jacobean Popular Stages

2013 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-25
Author(s):  
Susan Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Thomas Middleton ◽  
Trading Partner ◽  
British Society ◽  
Colonial Discourse ◽  
Popular Theatre ◽  
Theatrical Representation ◽  
City Of London ◽  
The City

What do the terms “India” and “Indian” signify? How has India, conceptualized as a distinct subcontinent both contained within and separate from Asia, been framed by and manifested in theatrical representation? This article examines the portrayal of India in early seventeenth-century popular theatre in London, specifically in how the image of India is invoked in two of the lord mayors' shows written for the City of London by the playwright Thomas Middleton. Middleton's use of images of and references to India participate in some of the ways that India was conceptualized at a key stage in establishing the framework for colonial discourse. Colonial discourse was thus shaped within and by popular culture and spectacle, and a historical long view' can illuminate the development of the concept of India in English, and later British, society and identity and the material consequences of that conceptualization. As Teltscher notes, the early seventeenth century marked the beginning of a transition in the way relations with India were seen in England, “from trading partner to ruling power.” This development was enacted and effected through representations that were presented and paraded through the streets of London.

Suburban Models, or Calvinism and Continuity in London’s Seventeenth-Century Church Architecture

2005 ◽  
Vol 48 ◽  
pp. 69-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Guillery
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Church Architecture ◽  
National Context ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
Church Building ◽  
History Of ◽  
Christopher Wren ◽  
City Of London ◽  
The City

The history of church architecture in seventeenth-century London lacks threads of continuity. It is dominated by two great men, Inigo Jones and Christopher Wren, whose contributions could not and did not straddle the whole metropolis or the whole of the century. Besides, the devising of a new church was too significant an act to be left entirely to those capable of architectural design. There is a related misconception that churches were seldom built in London between the Reformation and the Great Fire of 1666. Yet even within the City of London, numerous parish churches were rebuilt during this period, while Jones substantially remodelled Old St Paul’s Cathedral. Beyond the City, much more was happening. London’s earliest seventeenth-century suburban churches were broadly Gothic in style and medieval in type, while those built at the end of the century were entirely classical auditories. The same could be said of church building in a national context, although not without hefty qualification. What is fascinating, important, and insufficiently studied, is the nature of this transition and its wider historical meanings.

Making a Melodrama out of a Crisis: Reinterpreting the Collapse of Barings Bank

1996 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Tickell
Keyword(s):  
Financial System ◽  
Senior Management ◽  
British Society ◽  
Financial Instruments ◽  
Regulatory Authorities ◽  
International Financial System ◽  
The Media ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
City Of London ◽  
The City

In February 1995 Britain's oldest merchant bank, Barings, was put into administration after a series of disastrous losses on trading complex financial instruments. In this paper it is argued that the collapse of Barings symbolises the profound transformation in the City of London and the international financial system since the 1960s. The author analyses the response to the collapse by Barings' senior management, the British regulatory authorities, and the British media, arguing that they all misinterpreted the nature of the crisis. It is argued that criticisms of the Bank of England's actions by sections of the media signify wider changes in British society.

Biographical Notes - Richard Waller (about 1650-1715)

1940 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 92-94
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Early Years ◽  
City Of London ◽  
The City

Richard Waller was born about the middle of the seventeenth century, but the year is not known, nor is there any information about his early years. His education must have been good as he possessed a wide knowledge of the sciences besides being a capable linguist and a fair artist; he was also a keen man of business. It is likely that he was a business man in the city of London, as he had an address in Broad Street. His country estate was at Northaw in Hertfordshire and he also owned a farm at ‘Mynty, Co. Gloucester.’

scholarly journals Nordic Ties and British Lives? Migrant Capital and the Case of Nordic Migrants Living in London

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 171-180 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saara Koikkalainen
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Global City ◽  
British Society ◽  
Job Market ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Career Opportunities ◽  
The Social ◽  
City Of London ◽  
The City

As a hub of finance, art, design and science, the city of London has long attracted migrants interested in study and career opportunities or simply excited about living in an open, global city. Over the last few decades, it has also been a key migration destination for Europeans originating from the Nordic countries. Based on survey data gathered through an online questionnaire, this article focuses on Nordic migrants currently living in London. Since the June 2016 referendum, the Brexit process has forced these voluntary and rather privileged migrants to question their inclusion in British society. This article discusses the role of migrant capital, i.e., the skills and resources created as a result of migration, at a time of uncertainty brought on by Brexit. It examines how these migrants see their position within the social hierarchy of the city and its job market, as well as within the local and transnational networks they maintain to their countries of origin. Their Nordic background is valuable thanks to the cultural capital embodied in their habitus as well as the social capital available via the Nordic networks in UK and transnationally.

Divorce, wedding, and murder

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
David M. Bergeron
Keyword(s):  
Political Power ◽  
Thomas Middleton ◽  
Francis Bacon ◽  
The Political ◽  
City Of London ◽  
The City ◽  
Thomas Campion ◽  
Earl Of Essex

This chapter focuses mainly on the Robert Carr-Frances Howard relationship, her divorce from the Earl of Essex, and subsequent marriage to Carr in an elaborate wedding on 26 December. This marriage solidified the political power of the Howard family. For the wedding, Thomas Campion wrote the first masque, and Jonson wrote two masques. The celebration extended into the City of London in early January with a procession to the Merchant Taylors’ Hall, which included a play, a banquet, a masque by Thomas Middleton, and other entertainments. On 6 January, the court witnessed the performance of Masque of Flowers, financed by Francis Bacon. Only Frances Howard and possibly Carr knew that Thomas Overbury, Carr’s friend, had been murdered in the Tower at her instigation. Not until 1615 did others learn of this plot.

London

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claire Schen
Keyword(s):  
Economic History ◽  
Local History ◽  
British Society ◽  
Moral Norms ◽  
Cultural Economic ◽  
History Of ◽  
Metropolitan Center ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
City Of London ◽  
The City

The city of London began as a Roman settlement along the River Thames and grew into Europe’s first urban area of a million inhabitants. London was unique within Britain, and in many ways in Europe, yet it was deeply intertwined with the provinces and other cities. The city’s location on a great river meant that goods, people, and ideas flowed into and out of the city for centuries, to or from the countryside as well as far-flung areas of the globe. London has exerted enormous influence over the other towns and cities of England and Great Britain, and has similarly been shaped by in-migration from these places and from abroad. London began to rebound to its pre-plague population levels by 1500 and proceeded to grow rapidly. The works included here talk variously of London, including its suburbs, and a metropolis, to describe its inexorable expansion across former fields and to the borders of neighbors. As it grew, its significance in the economy of the world, in its connections to empire and trade, became predominant and its merchants and investors carved a new place for themselves in British society. The city was not just important in economic terms to England, Britain, and eventually a global empire—it attracted and nourished intellectuals and artists, playwrights and writers, scientists and natural historians, and provided the setting for the display of status, consumption of new goods, and the development of fresh tastes. Positioned next to the political center of Westminster, it housed and provided a public stage for parliamentarians, political protesters, members of court, and the monarchy. At the same time, London provided opportunity to poor and un- or underemployed men and women to work, even if in professions or criminal activities outside or on the edges of social and moral norms of the period. For those who struggled, there was charity and beneficence, and punishment and forced work or separation from families. The focus on social and economic history that shaped historical writing of the 1960s into the 1980s elevated local history but influenced the questions asked of the metropolitan center. The last several decades have brought a resurgence of interest in the history of London, in the important religious, cultural, economic, social, and political developments that marked its transformation over a few hundred years.

Occasional Architecture in Seventeenth-Century London

2006 ◽  
Vol 49 ◽  
pp. 35-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Stevenson
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
James I ◽  
Present Essay ◽  
Intellectual System ◽  
History Of ◽  
Complex Relationships ◽  
Charles Ii ◽  
The Moment ◽  
City Of London ◽  
The City

The present essay is mainly concerned with the coronation entries staged for James I and Charles II by the City of London in 1604 and 1661, and especially with the temporary arches made out of wood and canvas and erected to mark nodal points along the routes. These events have been the subjects of scholarship keenly attuned to their place in accessions more than usually demanding upon representations of the king’s majesty, in as much as James was the first Stuart king of England and, by the terms of hereditary monarchy, his grandson’s reign began twelve years before his coronation, at the moment Charles I’s head was severed from the neck. Here, however, the arches will explain, or emblematize, a particular way of conceiving architecture: as an assemblage of readily-dismountable parts like Lego bricks, or like a trophy, the ornamental group of symbolic or typical objects arranged for display. In this kind of architecture ‘classical’ ornament comprises, not the material realization of a stable, rational, and universal intellectual system elsewhere promoted by the early Stuarts’ patronage of Inigo Jones, for example, but what Sir Balthazar Gerbier in 1648 called a ‘true History’ of destruction and triumph, the result of more or less random despoliation and reassembly. What follows is not, therefore, directly concerned with majesty, nor with the arches’ iconography or their audiences, their place in London’s ceremonial geography, nor even their elaboration of the ‘complex relationships between two distinct but interconnected political domains’, the City that built them and the monarchy that graced them.

Recovering Roman London

2021 ◽  
pp. 11-21
Author(s):  
Dominic Perring
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Urban Landscapes ◽  
Archaeological Research ◽  
Urban Archaeology ◽  
Short History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Post War ◽  
City Of London ◽  
The City ◽  
Archaeological Excavations

This chapter presents a short history of relevant archaeological research in London. It traces a long story of discovery that was born of seventeenth-century antiquarianism, stimulated by opportunities for discovery in rescue archaeology during Victorian rebuilding in the City of London, and came to maturity in England’s post-war development-led urban archaeology. This historiographic review explains how archaeological research has been organized in London, and how opportunities for study are a product of programmes of urban regeneration. The complex dialogue between archaeologists and developers has made a major contribution to the study and management of historic urban landscapes. It is explained that many hundreds of archaeological excavations have taken place in London over the last 400 years, but that many of the more important results remain relatively inaccessible.

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