Portrait of a Raja in a Badshah’s World: Amrit Rai’s Biography of Man Singh (1585)

2012 ◽  
Vol 55 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 287-328 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allison Busch
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
State Formation ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
The Many

AbstractA wealth of Old Hindi texts in the Rajasthani and Brajbhasha dialects survives from the early modern period, but they remain an underused archive of Mughal history. TheMāncarit(“Biography of Man Singh,” 1585) of Amrit Rai, one of the earliest known examples of Rajput literature about a Mughalmanṣabdār, provides fascinating perspectives on Mughal power, as seen from the perspective of the court of Man Singh Kachhwaha, one of the leading regional kings of Akbar’s day. Amrit Rai was as much a poet as an historian, which makes theMāncaritand the many Rajput texts like it challenging to interpret, but the possibility of gaining alternative perspectives on Mughal state formation makes such a hermeneutic enterprise essential.

Baroque Catholic Theologies of Christ and Mary

2015 ◽  
pp. 103-118
Author(s):  
Trent Pomplun
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Historical Account ◽  
Religious Orders ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
Immaculate Conception ◽  
Increasing Trend ◽  
Theological Debate ◽  
The Many

This essay provides an historical account of the simultaneous development of Mariology and Christology in the early modern period. The main Thomist and Scotist arguments regarding the Incarnation and Immaculate Conception are discussed, together with the many “strict” and “mitigated” variants propounded by major theologians of religious orders, including the Jesuits, Dominicans, Franciscans, Mercedarians, and others; and the increasing trend toward the theological position of Duns Scotus is shown. Several of these now-forgotten theologies on the absolute primacy of Christ and Mary integrated the rather scattered Mariological reflections of the medieval world into the various baroque syntheses that shaped much of nineteenth-century theological debate, one result of which was the declaration of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception in 1854.

scholarly journals Managing the Early Modern Periphery: Highland Policy and the Highland Judicial Commission, c. 1692–c. 1705

2017 ◽  
Vol 96 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allan Kennedy
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
State Formation ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Current Understanding ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
Development Structure

Current understanding of Williamite Scotland tends to emphasise a few familiar themes, especially Jacobitism, famine and the Darien scheme. This provides an opaque and arguably skewed view of the period and nowhere is that clearer than in Highland policy, where historiographical focus on the Jacobite rising and the massacre of Glencoe has come at the expense of a fuller understanding of how William's government responded to the perennial ‘Highland problem’. This article attempts to tackle that gap through analysis of Williamite Highland policy after 1692, with a particular emphasis on its major initiative, the Highland Judicial Commission of 1694. Reconstructing the development, structure, workings and intellectual underpinnings of the commission, both on its own terms and in comparison to the earlier commission of the 1680s upon which it was based, it is argued that William's government emerged as a more authoritarian, domineering presence in the Highlands than its immediate predecessors. This, in turn, has broader implications, not just in terms of questioning recent revisionism about the Williamite regime in Scotland, but also about the nature of peripheral control and state formation in the early modern period.

THE SEARCH FOR THE ‘MIDDLE SORT OF PEOPLE’ IN ENGLAND, 1600–1800

2000 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 277-293 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. R. FRENCH
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Social Group ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Many ◽  
Collective Term

The ‘middle sort of people’ is a social group that has been the subject of increased historical research in the last decade. Many studies have been written, and many definitions offered of the group, its identity, and its membership. As a result, these overlapping groups and contrasting methods of definition have caused the nature and identity of the group to remain elusive. This study charts the evolution of the historiography of the ‘middle sort’, and the many attempts to produce positive and accurate definitions of the group. It suggests that the identity of the ‘middle sort’ may, in fact, be more complex than is allowed for by existing studies, with different identities being adopted according to social context. It concludes that while the term ‘middle sort of people’ is an appropriate contemporary collective term for use by historians, it is much more problematic as a description of an active, cohesive social group in the early modern period.

Health Hazards

2019 ◽  
Vol 95 (2) ◽  
pp. 115-133
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Currie
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Good Health ◽  
The Body ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
Visual Evidence ◽  
Ideal Body ◽  
The Many ◽  
Medical Treatises

Studies of early modern dress frequently focus on its connection with status and identity, overlooking clothing’s primary function, namely to protect the body and promote good health. The daily processes of dressing and undressing carried numerous considerations: for example, were vital areas of the body sufficiently covered, in the correct fabrics and colours, in order to maintain an ideal body temperature? The health benefits of clothing were countered by the many dangers it carried, such as toxic dyes, garments that were either too tight or voluminous, or harboured dirt and diseases that could infect the body. This article draws on medical treatises and health manuals printed and read in Italy and England, as well as personal correspondence and diaries, contextualised with visual evidence of the styles described. It builds on the current, wider interest in preventative medicine, humoral theory, health and the body in the early modern period by focusing in depth on the role of clothing within these debates.

Robert Boyle on the diversity of religions

2008 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 315-332
Author(s):  
TRAVIS DUMSDAY
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Robert Boyle ◽  
Religious Truth ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Way

AbstractRobert Boyle's treatise, ‘On the diversity of religions’, remains a little-known work, and was unpublished during his lifetime. Nonetheless it is of considerable historical and philosophical interest. In it, Boyle attempts to answer the question of how one can hope to obtain religious truth amidst the many competing claims to revelation, a concern which had grown acute in the early modern period. In this paper I examine Boyle's arguments, considering along the way their relationship to the various contemporary debates on diversity and evaluating their present relevance.

The First Pagan Historian

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frederic Clark
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Reception History ◽  
Trojan War ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Many ◽  
Latin Version

The First Pagan Historian traces the reception history of a text that is now largely neglected but once occupied a central role in the ancient canon—the De excidio Troiae historia or History of the Destruction of Troy of one Dares Phrygius, who claimed to have been an eyewitness observer of the Trojan War. From late antiquity (when most scholars today now agree that the extant Latin version of the text was written) to the eighteenth-century Enlightenment, this study charts the many surprising twists and turns in the afterlife of an author long considered the first of the pagans to write history. It examines the subversive challenge that Dares posed to other ancient canonical traditions (especially the poetry of Homer and Virgil), and the manner in which Dares’s bold rewriting of the Troy story enabled centuries of postclassical readers to forge their own—sometimes radical—visions of the distant past. In doing so, The First Pagan Historian moves back and forth between the ancient world itself and various moments in the Middle Ages and the early modern period. The book uses the fortunes of a forged text to interrogate approaches to history, fiction, myth, philology, criticism, authorship, and numerous other topics of profound importance to the interplay between antiquity and modernity.

Money and Future in Late Ming China

2019 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-70
Author(s):  
Weiwei Luo
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Moral Order ◽  
Historical Process ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
Late Ming ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Globalized World

Chinese imperial dynastic time represented the cyclical change of regimes with a naturalized moral order. A linear lineage time and synchronic communal time were often eclipsed by the more ritually visible and well-documented cyclical imperial time. The dawn of China’s “silver century” (1550–1650,) however, disrupted the cyclical temporality of the dynasties and revealed other time-orders that had been usually subsumed under the dynastic time. Late Ming China (fifteenth to early seventeenth century), like many parts of Europe in the early modern period, experienced commercial accumulation, competitive consumption, desire for capital, reformulation of norms and traditions, bringing China into a globalized world historical process. This change in economy brought to the fore the many layers between imperial dynastic time and that of the individual. Money also influenced existing philosophies of past and future, as well as techniques of prognostication. Manipulation of the future often took the form of calculation of good deeds inspired by accounting. In short, money transformed what we can call “the practice of future” in two ways. First, it reemphasized the importance of linear lineage time instead of dynastic time through emphasizing the longevity of descendants and fortunes in the afterlife. Second, through the discussion of capital acquisition and the popularization of accounting, it also introduced “balance” into temporality through the discourse of just and unjust accumulation, allowing a synchronized and more egalitarian communal time to disrupt lineage time.

All Aboard!: Science and Ship Culture in Sixteenth-Century Oceanic Voyages

2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 113-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henrique Leitão
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
Late Fifteenth ◽  
The Many ◽  
Practice Of Science

The onset of regular long-distance oceanic voyages created novel conditions for the practice of science in late fifteenth and early sixteenth-century Europe. A sixteenth-century Indiaman was the most advanced and sophisticated machine of its time; life on board was very harsh but it was also profoundly shaped by technology, artisanal practices and by contact with new and surprising realities. For the many thousands of Europeans who traveled by sea in the early modern period such an experience led to the reshaping of many ideas and to lasting changes in their perception of nature, the value of technology and the mores of artisans.


The Many “Lives” of Pedro de Ribadeneyra

1999 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 180-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jodi Bilinkoff
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Life Writing ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Current Interest ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Forms Of Life ◽  
The Many

The important early Jesuit Pedro de Ribadeneyra (1526-1611) has the distinction of having been a biographer of men, a biographer of women, an autobiographer, and the subject of biography. As such he and his texts seem particularly apt subjects for study given the current interest by scholars in a number of disciplines in the various forms of “life-writing“ produced so abundantly in the early modern period. In this essay I briefly examine Ribadeneyra's most famous biography, that of his mentor Ignatius Loyola, as well as two little-known and virtually unstudied texts: his Life of the pious laywoman Estefanía Manrique de Castilla and his autobiography or Confessions. I focus upon the ways in which he treated issues of authority and obedience in constructing as exemplary the lives of these three Spanish nobles and explore his strategies for enlisting life-writing in the campaign for a renewed, activist Catholicism.

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