The Chapel Royal (1543–85), II

Tallis ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 57-72
Author(s):  
Kerry McCarthy
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Daily Routine ◽  
Tower Of London ◽  
River Thames ◽  
Royal Household

The life of a sixteenth-century Chapel Royal musician was highly itinerant. Tudor kings and queens did not live in one place; they moved freely among their many residences, bringing their musicians and other staff with them. The most important royal residences in Tallis’s day were located along the River Thames within easy reach of London. This chapter is a tour of these Tudor palaces and their chapels, with notes on the daily routine and working conditions of the Chapel Royal singers. Some of the chapels (at Hampton Court Palace, St. James’s Palace, and the Tower of London) are still intact to some degree. Others (at Windsor, Richmond, Whitehall, and Greenwich) have been destroyed but are documented in sixteenth-century descriptions and pictures. The journey ends in Greenwich, where Tallis lived when he was not traveling with the royal household.

scholarly journals Conscience and the King's Household Clergy in the Early Tudor Court of Requests

2020 ◽  
Vol 56 ◽  
pp. 210-226
Author(s):  
Laura Flannigan
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Common Law ◽  
Central Administration ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Church ◽  
Royal Household

The early Tudor Court of Requests was closely attached to the king's person and his duty to provide ‘indifferent’ justice. In practice, however, it was staffed by members of the attendant royal household and council. Utilizing the little-studied but extensive records of the court, this article traces the rising dominance of the dean of the Chapel Royal and the royal almoner as administrators and judges there from the 1490s to the 1520s. It examines the relationship between supposedly ‘secular’ and ‘spiritual’ activities within the central administration and between the formal and informal structures and ideologies of the church, the law and the royal household. It explores the politics of proximity and the ad hoc nature of early Tudor governance which made the conscience-based jurisdiction in Requests especially convenient to the king and desperate litigants alike. Overall the article argues that although the influence of clergymen in the court waned towards the end of the sixteenth century in favour of common-law judges, its enduring association with ‘poor men's causes’ and ‘conscience’ grew directly from these early clerical underpinnings.

Mourning Madeleine and Margaret: Dress and Meaning in the Memorials for Two Scottish Queens, 1537 and 1541

2021 ◽  
Vol 100 (3) ◽  
pp. 359-377
Author(s):  
Perin Westerhof Nyman
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Foreign Born ◽  
Low Countries ◽  
Central Aspect ◽  
Late Fifteenth ◽  
Royal Household

While the Scottish royal household participated in the wider development of mourning traditions in the late fifteenth century and employed mourning dress as a political tool from at least the turn of the sixteenth century, surviving evidence is extremely limited. Records for the funerals of Queens Madeleine de Valois ( d. 1537) and Margaret Tudor ( d. 1541) yield the earliest extensive material details for the employment of mourning displays in Scotland. These two funerals both honoured foreign-born queens, they took place only four years apart and they were organised within the same household—yet their use of mourning dress and material display diverged notably. Variations in the design and display of both formal and everyday mourning dress were used to transmit distinct messages and themes, in order to address the particular political circumstances and needs of each death. Comparison between the details of these Scottish funerals and examples from England, France and the Low Countries helps to place Scottish practice within wider traditions and highlights a common emphasis on mourning displays as a central aspect of political discourse and diplomacy at key moments of change and loss.

scholarly journals Postural workloads on paramedics during patient transport

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 161-164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Verjans ◽  
Andrea Schütt ◽  
Philipp Schleer ◽  
Detlef Struck ◽  
Klaus Radermacher
Keyword(s):  
Low Back Pain ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Daily Routine ◽  
Low Back ◽  
Current Transport ◽  
High Demand ◽  
Patient Transport ◽  
Working Posture ◽  
Free Transport ◽  
Classical Transport

AbstractParamedics perform physically demanding tasks during patient transport in daily routine and therefore suffer more often from musculoskeletal ailments, mainly low back pain, than any other profession. We hypothesise, that current transport aids do not offer sufficient support when it comes to obstacles and stairs during patient transport. Therefore we conducted an Ovako Working Posture Analysing System (OWAS) field study to capture postural workloads during patient transport and connected the results to a survey among paramedics about occurring obstacles. The results of the OWAS analysis showed strenuous working conditions during barrier-free transport with classical transport aids, like stretcher and stretcher chair, but enormous postural workloads when barriers occurred. Our survey revealed, that stairs occurred in 38 %, and at least one barrier, like narrow passages, curbs, etc., in 48.1 % of all deployments (n=405), we can quantitatively link postural workloads with occurring obstacles. In conclusion, there is a high demand for ergonomic improvements of current transport aids and a high potential of active assist devices to reduce harmful loads on paramedics.

scholarly journals XXXVII. An historical and descriptive Account of the Ancient Painting preserved at Cowdray in Sussex, the Seat of Lord Viscount Montague: representing the Procession of King Edward VI. from the Tower of London to Westminster, February 19th, A. D. 1547, previous to his Coronation. By John Topham, Esq. F.R.A.S.

Archaeologia ◽  
1787 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 406-422
Author(s):  
John Topham
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Vice President ◽  
The State ◽  
Tower Of London ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Descriptive Account

The drawing now exhibited is made from one of those curious historical paintings which have been long since introduced to the notice of this Society by our late learned Vice President Sir Joseph Ayloffe, Baronet, in an account of some ancient historical paintings at Cowdray in Sussex, published in the Transactions of this Society, Archaeologia, vol. III. p. 239—272. In that memoir may be seen a minute description of many of those valuable representations which preserve several interesting parts of our national events, and exhibit to our view the state of the arts, and the dresses, manners, and usages, which prevailed amongst our ancestors about the middle of the sixteenth century.

I.—The Emperor Maximilian's Gift of Armour to King Henry VIII and the Silvered and Engraved Armour at the Tower of London

Archaeologia ◽  
1965 ◽  
Vol 99 ◽  
pp. 1-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claude Blair
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Henry Viii ◽  
European Language ◽  
Main Subject ◽  
Tower Of London ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Military

The armour that forms the main subject of this paper is perhaps the best known of the many historical harnesses preserved in the national armoury at the Tower of London (Inv. no. II. 5) (pls. i, ii, viii a, b, xv; figs. 3–10, pp. 45–50). An account of it—which must be the earliest study of a single armour in any European language—was published by Dr. (later Sir) Samuel Rush Meyrick as long ago as 1829, and since then it has figured prominently in many works on arms and armour. Though designed primarily for parade, it is basically a handsome field-armour of the second decade of the sixteenth century, but it is made particularly impressive by its long steel skirt, an imitation of one of the cloth bases worn with both the military and the civil dress of the period, and by the fact that it is completely covered with engraved decoration. Originally its surfaces were also entirely silvered and gilt, but much of the silver and all but a few traces of gold have disappeared.

William Lambarde, Elizabethan Law Reform, and Early Stuart Politics

1995 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 464-480 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wilfrid Prest
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Law Reform ◽  
Elizabeth I ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Black Book ◽  
Tower Of London ◽  
Tudor England ◽  
Court Of Chancery ◽  
Point Of Departure

William Lambarde (1536–1601) has been much celebrated, and cited, by historians of Tudor England. Besides compiling what is generally recognized as the earliest county history (A Perambulation of Kent, completed in 1570; first published in 1576) and a pioneering edition of Anglo-Saxon laws and customs (Archaionomia, 1568), Lambarde's famous manual on the duties, powers, and responsibilities of justices of the peace (Eirenarcha, 1581) “gives an account, which is both complete and systematic, of the organization of the local government … as it stood at the end of the sixteenth century.” Although his abilities and achievements received only a modest measure of contemporary recognition, toward the end of his life Lambarde successively acquired the posts of Deputy in the Alienations Office (1589), Master in Chancery Extraordinary (1592), Master in Chancery and Deputy Keeper of the Rolls (1597), and Keeper of Records in the Tower of London (1601). He had been associated to the bench of Lincoln's Inn in 1579 (having, as the Black Book citation put it, “deserved universallie well of his comon wealth and contrie”); these promotions induced the ruling Council to make him a full bencher, “being one of Her Majesties Masters of hir Court of Chancery and of great reading, learning and experience.”In depicting the conscientious Elizabethan J.P. as burdened by “stacks of statutes,” Lambarde coined a phrase which has indeed “burrowed its way into most historical textbooks.” Besides numerous articles, modern scholarly interest in the man and his works has generated two biographies (published in 1965 and 1973), while the point of departure for John Howes Gleason's institutional-cumprosopographical account of local government under Elizabeth I and the early Stuarts was Lambarde's own record of his activities as a Kentish justice in the 1580s.

More as Witness: the Tower Letters

Moreana ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 46 (Number 176) (1) ◽  
pp. 31-48
Author(s):  
Katherine Gardiner Rodgers
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Thomas More ◽  
Tower Of London ◽  
Bearing Witness ◽  
Significant Events ◽  
The Way

Treason trials in the sixteenth century forbade witnesses for the defense, and the trial of Thomas More was no exception. The letters More wrote during his imprisonment in the Tower of London, however, serve as witnesses in his case, if not his trial, documenting significant events leading up to his prosecution, challenging the way in which defendants might be called upon to testify, and elaborating More’s understanding of the term “conscience,” whose etymology suggests both the legal and Christian senses of bearing witness. More’s careful use of his letters to offer testimony in his defense also protects him from the accusation of seeking out his own martyrdom.

Maxims of Foreign Policy

Itinerario ◽  
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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