Sixteenth-Century Terra-Cotta Tombs in East Anglia.

Abstract An article published in 2014 argued that the third-person singular present tense indicative zero was already present in Norfolk English before the arrival of Dutch- and French-speaking immigrants in Norwich in the middle of the sixteenth century. This position differs from that of Trudgill, who has argued that zero-marking in Norfolk English arose as a result of language contact between the immigrants (or ‘Strangers’) and local English people. One response to the earlier article is that it relies on examples involving the verb have, and that this verb is something of an exception as it is found with zero-marking in other varieties of English. The present article addresses that concern by providing further evidence that zero-marking was already used in Norfolk English for verbs other than have before the arrival of the Strangers in Norwich. It then evaluates whether, although zero-marking was present prior to 1565, Trudgill’s language contact thesis may nevertheless help to explain how zero-marking became a common feature of Norfolk English and indeed of varieties of English elsewhere in East Anglia. In short, this article aims to shed further light on the interesting question of how and when zero-marking developed in Norfolk English.

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An East Anglian Poem in a London Manuscript? The Date and Dialect of The Court of Love in Cambridge, Trinity College, MS R.3.19

Historical Dialectology in the Digital Age ◽

10.3366/edinburgh/9781474430531.003.0010 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 212-243

Author(s):

Ad Putter

Keyword(s):

Sixteenth Century ◽

Trinity College ◽

East Anglia ◽

Linguistic Differences ◽

15Th Century ◽

Fourth Decade ◽

Long Time

This chapter investigates the text The Court of Love (Cambridge, Trinity College, MS R.3.19, folios 217r-234r). It was long time held to be a poem by Chaucer, a notion debunked by Skeat as a neo-medieval fabrication dating from the fourth decade of the sixteenth century at the earliest. This chapter presents a new appraisal of the date, which is tentatively pinpointed as the middle of the 15th century, and the localization of the poet, who is localized in East Anglia based on the evidence of rhymes and some spellings. Frequent failures of rhyme point to the linguistic differences between the poet and the scribe, as reconstructed from rhyme, metre and possible “relicts”. The hypothesis that the poet was from East Anglia and the scribe from London is confirmed by evidence from eLALME dot maps, and shows that instances in the poem that were identified by Skeat as “false grammar” are in fact examples of syntax that is true to the poet’s own dialect.

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Midwives of Sixteenth-Century Rural East Anglia

Rural History ◽

10.1017/s0956793315000138 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 27 (1) ◽

pp. 1-19 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

JULIA ALLISON

Keyword(s):

Sixteenth Century ◽

Marital Status ◽

Family Life ◽

Professional Lives ◽

Social Standing ◽

Age At Death ◽

East Anglia ◽

Parish Registers

AbstractThis study identifies more than fifty previously unrecorded Elizabethan, East Anglian rural midwives. Their professional lives are discussed in terms of licensing and oaths, knowledge, skills, caseload, travel, networking and years of practice. In regard to their family life, matters examined include marital status, spousal occupation, children, social standing, age at death and testacy. Finding and researching these midwives involved examination of a large number of different kinds of archive documents, including sixteenth-century parish registers and quarter session records. As data were examined a clearer picture emerged of these early midwives and their practice.

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Petitioning as popular politics in early sixteenth–century England

Historical Research ◽

10.1111/1468-2281.00156 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 75 (190) ◽

pp. 365-389 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

R. W. Hoyle

Keyword(s):

Sixteenth Century ◽

Political Communication ◽

The Body ◽

Popular Politics ◽

East Anglia ◽

Conservative Form ◽

The Commons ◽

The Right ◽

The City ◽

Important Form

Abstract This article offers the thesis that petitioning by collective groups, whether occupational, regionally constituted, or simply the body of people called the commons, was an important form of political communication in the early sixteenth century which, although poorly documented and consequently overlooked by historians, allows us an entry into the world of popular politics. The article offers illustrations of the way in which petitions were employed within the city of York, by groups such as weavers or by the commons of East Anglia in 1549 and 1553. The right to petition could not be denied, but mass petitioning was viewed with apprehension by government. Nonetheless, petitioning may be seen as a conservative form of behaviour when compared to calls for insurrection.

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Cattle Production in East Anglia— Past, Present and Future

Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Production ◽

10.1017/s036985210000066x ◽

1949 ◽

Vol 1950 ◽

pp. 40-53

Author(s):

Frank H. Garner

Keyword(s):

Sixteenth Century ◽

Crop Production ◽

Short Paper ◽

Cattle Production ◽

East Anglia ◽

The Third ◽

Large Numbers ◽

History Of ◽

Second Year ◽

Stock Feed

In this short paper it is proposed in the first instance to give a brief outline of the history of crop production, since it is closely related to stock production. This will be followed by an outline of the cattle in East Anglia, and finally with the possible developments in the future. If one looks back into the cropping of the arable areas of this country, and in this case, East Anglia, one finds that in the earliest farming the rotations consisted of really a three course rotation—wheat or rye, followed in the second year, with barley, oats, peas or beans and in the third year, fallow. There was little provision for winter feed for livestock when such rotations were followed, and consequently large numbers of animals were killed annually in the autumn. About the middle of the sixteenth century, one finds the first mention of turnips for feeding to cattle in the winter, and this suggestion was quickly followed by the announcement that cabbages, carrots and parsnips were also grown for stock feed.

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Maxims of Foreign Policy

Itinerario ◽

10.1017/s0165115300044508 ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 24 (2) ◽

pp. 62-79

Author(s):

W.J. Boot

Keyword(s):

Foreign Policy ◽

Sixteenth Century ◽

Foreign Relations ◽

East Asian ◽

Modern Period ◽

Cultural Sphere ◽

Japanese Identity

In the pre-modern period, Japanese identity was articulated in contrast with China. It was, however, articulated in reference to criteria that were commonly accepted in the whole East-Asian cultural sphere; criteria, therefore, that were Chinese in origin.One of the fields in which Japan's conception of a Japanese identity was enacted was that of foreign relations, i.e. of Japan's relations with China, the various kingdoms in Korea, and from the second half of the sixteenth century onwards, with the Portuguese, Spaniards, Dutchmen, and the Kingdom of the Ryūkū.

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