FORTY YEARS IN THE WILDERNESS: JOHN SADLER OF THE SADLER PARTBOOKS

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthias Range ◽  
Julia Craig-McFeely
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Bodleian Library ◽  
Privately Owned ◽  
Source Of Information

Abstract The identification of the Tudor partbooks Oxford, Bodleian Library, Mss. Mus. e. 1–5 and Ms. Tenbury 1486, and the privately owned Willmott partbook with John Sadler, a priest and schoolmaster active in rural Northamptonshire between 1548 and the early 1590s, has sat uneasily. This is because the John Sadler associated with these books is actually someone quite different: in the first set he entered in the books what has previously been described as a simple monogram of his name, but which is in fact a ‘merchant mark’ identifying him unambiguously as a Norwich merchant. The article discusses the evidence for his identification and the new context for the books. Their relocation invites a new reading and interpretation of their contents, such as their significance as a source of information about the Norwich composer Thomas Morley. The link with the Elizabethan merchant world brings into focus the rather neglected topic of early modern merchants and their involvement with music.

Who Were the Poor? The Recipients of Relief

2018 ◽  
pp. 167-186
Author(s):  
John McCallum
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
Internal Dynamics ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Fixed Model ◽  
Local Patterns ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Relief System ◽  
Source Of Information

This chapter analyses the poor themselves. Although recent literature has made valuable attempts to study the poor in their own right rather than simply through the prism of relief (and therefore elites), welfare records remain the richest source of information on the poor, especially in an area such as Scotland where very little previous work has been undertaken. Therefore the chapter opens up the subject of who received relief and why, shedding light not just on the internal dynamics of this most neglected group within Scottish society, but also on the agenda and priorities of the relief system itself. The chapter draws attention to variations in the demographics of relief recipients, and argues that there was no fixed model or ‘type’ of recipient, and that kirk sessions were responding to local patterns of need. The chapter also emphasises the complexity and range of (overlapping) reasons why early modern Scots might find themselves in need of welfare.

“To Immerse their Wives”: Communal Identity and the “Kahalishe” Mikveh of Altona

AJS Review ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 257-279
Author(s):  
Debra Kaplan
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Lay Leaders ◽  
Communal Identity ◽  
Communal Life ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
Women's Lives ◽  
Communal Institutions ◽  
Privately Owned ◽  
Insight Into

On Sunday, the twelfth of Adar, March 2, 1681, theparnasim, the lay leaders of Altona, recorded an enactment in their communal logbook, thepinkas kehillah, regulating women's use of the localmikva'ot. Designating two privately-owned ritual baths as the only approved immersion locations for most of the women in the community, they decreed that defiance of this decree was to be punished with some of the most severe weapons in the arsenal of the communal leaders. Four years later, theparnasimreversed their policy and, with the permission of the community's rabbinic leadership, required the women to use only the newly builtkahalishe, or community,mikveh, banning the use of the two previously approvedmikva'ot. This article examines the construction and reconstruction of these policies regulating women's use ofmikva'ot, offering insight into how designated communal institutions were developed in the early modern period as well as how these institutions were used both to finance the community and to forge communal identity. Moreover, consideration of themikvehas a locus for building communal institutions and, in particular, communal identity, offers insight into how the growing bureaucratization of Jewish communal life in the early modern period affected women's lives.

Comparative Colonialism and Collections-Based Archaeological Research

Museum Worlds ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia A. King
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
North America ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Chesapeake Bay ◽  
Indigenous People ◽  
Archaeological Research ◽  
Critical Dialogue ◽  
Good Shape ◽  
Archaeological Collections ◽  
Source Of Information

ABSTRACTLegacy collections are an increasingly valued source of information for researchers interested in the study and interpretation of colonialism in the Chesapeake Bay region of North America. Through the reexamination of 34 archaeological collections ranging in date from 1500 through 1720, researchers, including the author, have been able to document interactions among Europeans, Africans, and indigenous people in this part of the early modern Atlantic. We could do this only because we turned to existing collections; no single site could reveal this complex story. This article summarizes the major findings from this work and describes the pleasures and challenges of comparative analysis using existing collections. Collections-based research can also be used to inform fieldwork, so the legacy collections of tomorrow are in as good shape as possible. Indeed, collections-based work reveals the need for a critical dialogue concerning the methods, methodology, and ethics of both collections and field-based research.

The Malleable Early Modern Reader

2014 ◽  
Vol 73 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-203
Author(s):  
Kimberley Skelton
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Human Perception ◽  
Bodleian Library ◽  
Reading Room ◽  
Reading Practices ◽  
Effective Response ◽  
Modern Reader

Across early seventeenth-century Europe, the physical boundaries that had structured reading practices in institutional libraries from monasteries to universities suddenly dissolved. Where readers had previously encountered shelving units that projected out perpendicular from the wall to create secluded study spaces, they now found open rooms outlined by shelving along the perimeter walls. Readers thus seemed to have been given a new freedom to pursue idiosyncratic activities; yet the open reading room coincided with sharpened anxiety about the hazards of undisciplined reading. In The Malleable Early Modern Reader: Display and Discipline in the Open Reading Room, a case study of Oxford’s Bodleian Library together with contemporaneous notions of human perception, Kimberley Skelton argues that, paradoxically, the open reading room was an effective response to seventeenth-century concerns about reading because it molded the reader into the ideally studious scholar.

scholarly journals Wydawnicze skamieliny. Późne edycje bestsellerów jako źródło informacji o kształcie wizualnym pierwszego wydania tekstu

Terminus ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (4 (53)) ◽  
pp. 401-436
Author(s):  
Justyna Kiliańczyk-Zięba
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
High Probability ◽  
Editorial Work ◽  
Book Collections ◽  
First Editions ◽  
Source Of Information

Printed Fossils. Late Editions of Bestsellers as a Source of Information on the Typographic Shape of the First Edition of a Text One of the important problems studied by book historians is the fate of those titles and editions that have not survived to our times. These were oftentimes the most popular and most frequently purchased publications, very vulnerable to destruction exactly due to their popularity. The information about lost editions usually comes from the old book lists (inventories and catalogues of early modern book collections, 18th and 19th century bibliographies), as well as from mentions by various authors. Justyna Kiliańczyk-Zięba shows that information about the existence and typographical shape of the lost editions is also to be found in preserved editions which were published decades or even centuries after the first editions. The study draws on bibliographic research and editorial work carried out over several years. Its aim is to present a methodology that allows the layout of the today unknown first print of Fortuna abo Szczęście by Stanislaw of Bochnia to be reconstructed with high probability.

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