Tobie Matthew

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosamund Oates
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Early Modern England ◽  
Book Collecting ◽  
Guiding Principles ◽  
Private Collections ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Made In

This chapter explores Matthew’s book collection, showing how the experience of developing libraries in Oxford and Bristol shaped his own book collecting. Rare Frankfurt book catalogues offer an invaluable insight into how Matthew purchased some of his books, while other sources point to a network of booksellers in York, London, and Oxford dealing in new and in second-hand books. This chapter also examines the guiding principles behind Matthew’s book collecting, seeing how these evolved over Matthew’s career. Matthew owned one of the largest private collections of books in early modern England, and this chapter explores contemporary ideas of what a library was and whether Matthew aspired to create one. The chapter concludes by examining the network of friends, colleagues, and patrons reflected in gifts to his library, asking how Matthew, and others, presented themselves through the marks of ownership they made in their books.

scholarly journals REFORMING FOOD AND EATING IN PROTESTANT ENGLAND, c. 1560–c. 1640

2019 ◽  
Vol 63 (3) ◽  
pp. 507-527
Author(s):  
ELEANOR BARNETT
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Early Modern England ◽  
Spiritual Health ◽  
The Body ◽  
Food History ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
Eating Practices ◽  
Insight Into

AbstractAs the field of food history has come to fruition in the last few decades, cultural historians of early modern England have begun to recognize the significance of food and eating practices in the process of identity construction. Yet its effect on religious identities has yet to be written. This article illuminates a printed discourse in which Protestants laboured to define a new relationship to food and eating in light of the Reformation, from Elizabeth I's reign up until the Civil War. It is based on a wealth of religious tracts written by the clergy, alongside the work of physicians in the form of dietaries and regimens, which together highlight the close relationship between bodily and spiritual concerns. As a result of the theological changes of the Reformation, reformers sought to desacralize Catholic notions of holy food. However, by paying greater attention to the body, this article argues that eating continued to be a religiously significant act, which could both threaten spiritual health and enrich it. This discourse on food and eating helped draw the confessional boundaries and identities of the Reformation period, and so offers a rewarding and novel insight into English Protestantism.

Introduction

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kit Heyam
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Early Modern England ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Historical Narratives ◽  
Medieval History ◽  
Edward Ii ◽  
Sexual Transgression ◽  
History Of ◽  
Insight Into

This introduction discusses the reputation of King Edward II (1307–1327) in medieval and early modern England, and the implications of this reputation beyond its immediate relevance to scholars of Edward II’s reign and afterlife: as a case study for the history of sex and the changing vocabulary of sexual transgression; as a source of positive depictions of love between men; as a paradigmatic exemplum for discussions of favouritism and deposition, and thereby a case study providing insight into the early modern use of medieval history; as a means of developing our understanding of literary texts such as Marlowe’s Edward II; and as a process that illuminates the literary nature of medieval and early modern historical narratives.

Samuel Morland and his calculating machines c.1666: the early career of a courtier–inventor in Restoration London

2007 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-179 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. R. RATCLIFF
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Early Modern England ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Robert Hooke ◽  
High Social Status ◽  
Made In

This paper presents the story of two calculating machines invented by Sir Samuel Morland (1625–95) in the 1660s. These instruments are the earliest known mechanical calculators made in England. Their designs are unusual and very much of their time. They appealed to some, especially at court, and were dismissed by others, such as Robert Hooke. The first part of the paper introduces Morland and the courtier–inventor's world, in which a reputation as a ‘machinist’ or an engineer could accompany high social status. It considers why a former diplomat and postal spy would turn to invention in general and to mechanical calculators in particular as a career move in the Restoration court. The second part addresses the instruments – attention to their design reveals Morland's inspiration. The paper concludes with an examination of the market for the calculators in London, Paris and Florence. While it is notable that the calculators circulated both in court and in the commercial sphere, even more interesting is the contrast between their receptions in these two spheres. The story of these machines and their maker helps flesh out the poorly understood world of the courtier–inventor in early modern England.

Huguenots, Jesuits and Tyrants: Notes on the Vindiciae contra Tyrannos in Early Modern England

2007 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 175-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefania Tutino
Keyword(s):  
French Text ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Political Thought ◽  
Early Modern England ◽  
Secular Theory ◽  
Insight Into

AbstractThe first edition of the Vindiciae contra Tyrannos was published in 1579. In 1690 a pamphlet entitled Political Aphorisms was printed: this work, constructed by mixing entire passages from the Huguenot text and John Locke's first and second Treatise of government, presented a radical and secular theory of government as a contract between governors and governed. In this essay I want to explain the genesis of Political Aphorisms, or, in other words, I seek to elucidate part of the story of the Vindiciae contra Tyrannos in early modern England. More specifically, I argue that in order to understand the complexity and the problematic character of the French text in the English context scholars need to take into account the role of Catholic political thought. Catholic political theorists, in fact, appropriated for themselves many of the arguments put forward by the Huguenot author, and used them to undermine, in theory as well as in practice, the authority of the English sovereign. Understanding the role of English and European Catholic political thought can offer important insight into the current historiographical debate over the secular character of the theory of contract expressed in the Huguenot pamphlet.

scholarly journals “The gully-hole of literature”: On the enregisterment of cant language in seventeenth-century England.

Sederi ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 99-117
Author(s):  
Paula Schintu
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Early Modern England ◽  
Literary Representations ◽  
The Social ◽  
English Population ◽  
Dramatic Performance ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Shed Light

This essay places seventeenth-century literary renditions of cant, the language spoken by rogues and criminals in Early Modern England, into the context of “enregisterment” so as to examine its role in the process of recognition, categorization and legitimation of the canting tongue and the values it entailed. Literary representations of this variety became common in the period under analysis as a result of the criminal element that threatened the English population. Drama emerged as one of the main vehicles for the representation of cant, leading to the appearance of numerous plays that dealt with the life and adventures of English rogues. In the pages that follow, it will be argued that the study of these textual artefacts can provide valuable historical insight into the use of cant and the social connotations associated with it. In fact, the corpus-based analysis of the plays selected for this study has made it possible to identify both a common lexical repertoire and a set of sociocultural features that were associated with this underworld variety and its wicked speakers by the London non-canting audience. At the same time, it has shed light on the processes whereby this encoded speech came to index derogatory cultural values, which were spread and consumed thanks, in part, to dramatic performance, leading to the enregisterment of cant language and its recognition as a stable and unique linguistic variety.

A Word from the Editors

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul J. du Plessis ◽  
Clifford Ando ◽  
Kaius Tuori
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Legal History ◽  
Early Modern England ◽  
Historical Study ◽  
Editorial Process ◽  
Present Volume ◽  
Institutional Authority ◽  
Political Project ◽  
Made In

This chapter sets out the larger framework of the volume. It describes and contrasts different ways of undertaking Roman legal history, and explains the approach of the present volume. The chapter urges that a rich contextualisation of law in the circumstances of its production and subsequent interpretation accords with deeply held Roman beliefs about the nature of law. It sets ancient and modern notions of the autonomy of law (and the forms of legal historical study that autonomous law might seem to require) in conversation with the autonomy of law as political project in practice. The hard-won social and institutional authority of the Roman jurists is situated in comparative relation to political contests in early modern England among sources of law. Finally, the chapter explain compromises and choices made in the editorial process.

scholarly journals Eating the Forbidden Fruit: Pottery and Protestant Theology in Early Modern England

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-83
Author(s):  
Alexandra Walsham
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Early Modern England ◽  
Moral Reflection ◽  
Garden Of Eden ◽  
Biblical Story ◽  
Adam And Eve ◽  
Embodied Theology ◽  
Insight Into

Abstract This article offers insight into Protestant attitudes towards food by exploring seventeenth- and eighteenth-century English delftware dishes and chargers decorated with the biblical motif of the Temptation of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. It investigates the biblical story and doctrinal assumptions that underpinned this iconography and considers how objects decorated with it illuminate the ethics of eating in the godly household and reformed culture. Analyzing a range of visual variations on this theme, it approaches this species of Christian materiality as a form of embodied theology. Such pottery encouraged spectators to recognize the interconnections between sexual temptation and the sensual temptation presented by gluttony and to engage in spiritual and moral reflection. Probing the nexus between piety and bodily pleasure, the article also seeks to complicate traditional stereotypes about puritan asceticism.

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