scholarly journals A Poet’s Warning: Veysî’s Poem on the Breakdown of Ottoman Social and Political Life in the Seventeenth Century

2021 ◽  
pp. 219-228
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Political Life

“Bustling Artisans”: Church Patronage at South Leith in the 1740s and 1750s

1994 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. A. Houston
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
Church Administration ◽  
Presbyterian Church ◽  
The People ◽  
The City ◽  
The Town ◽  
Scottish Politics

Political participation in eighteenth-century Scotland was the preserve of the few. A country of more than one and a half million people had less than 3,000 parliamentary electors in 1788. Scottish politics was orchestrated from Westminster by one or two powerful patrons and their northern clients—a fact summarized in book titles like The People Above and The Management of Scottish Society. The way Edinburgh danced to a London tune is well illustrated in the aftermath of the famous Porteous riots of 1736. After a government official was lynched the Westminster government leaned heavily on the city and its council. And the nation as a whole was kept under tight rein after the Jacobite rising of 1745-46.This does not mean that ordinary people could not participate in political life, broadly defined. Burgesses could influence their day-to-day lives through membership of their incorporations (guilds) and through serving as constables and in other town or “burgh” (borough) offices. Ecclesiastical posts in the presbyterian church administration—elders and deacons of kirk sessions—had also to be filled. Gordon Desbrisay estimates that approximately one in twelve eligible men would be required annually to serve on the town council and kirk session of Aberdeen in the second half of the seventeenth century. With a 60% turnover of personnel each year, distribution of office holding must have been extensive among the middling section of burgh society from which officials were drawn. For burgesses and non-burgesses alike, other avenues of expression were open. In periods when political consensus broke down or when sectional interests sought to prevail townspeople could resort to riot.

Religion and the Government of the Later Stuarts

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Grant Tapsell
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Information Culture ◽  
Good Government ◽  
Religious Perspectives ◽  
Royal Supremacy ◽  
The Government ◽  
Institutional Church

This chapter emphasizes the centrality of religious debates and disagreements to the conduct of government under the later Stuarts. The consequences of a narrowly intolerant Church ‘settlement’ in 1662 interacted with the longer-term complexities of the post-Reformation English church-state to ensure considerable instability in public life. After a summary discussion of modern historiography, the chapter turns to examine conflicting ideas of toleration and uniformity in the Restoration period. Attention then shifts to the structures of political life: Royal Supremacy, Parliamentary affairs, the institutional Church, and successive governing ministries. Finally, the chapter examines the central role religion played within the information culture of later seventeenth-century England, especially printed literature. Attention is drawn to the ways in which different religious perspectives powerfully inflected discussions of good government.

Political Participation in Britain: a Research Agenda for a New Study

1984 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geraint Parry ◽  
George Moyser
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Political Participation ◽  
Government Policy ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Political Life ◽  
British Politics ◽  
Rural Worker ◽  
Universal Suffrage ◽  
The Town

HISTORICALLY SPEAKING, THE THEME OF POLITICAL PARTICIpation and the set of issues connected with it are as old as politics itself, because they touch on some of the most central and perennial questions of political life – who decides, where are the boundaries of community and citizenship to be drawn, who benefits, how will decisions be made? However, beyond this, participation has from time to time become a particularly central and salient issue in British politics. In the seventeenth century the issues revolved around the ‘claims of the gentry and merchant classes to play a larger part in the making of government policy’. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the issue moved on to representation of the nonropertied classes – the town worker, the rural worker and Etterly universal suffrage.

A due degree of zeal: enthusiasm and Methodism

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert G. Ingram
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Political Life ◽  
History Of

This chapter is about anti-Methodism and focuses especially on Warburton’s Doctrine of Grace (1763). Firstly, it reveals how Warburton’s engagement with George Whitefield’s Journals; with John Byrom’s work on enthusiasm; and with Daniel Neal’s History of the Puritans shaped and sharpened his thinking about Methodism. Secondly, it anatomizes the argument of a long anti-Methodist manuscript — The True Methodist — that Warburton wrote during the mid 1750s, yet never published. Finally, it shows how Warburton reworked the True Methodist’s anti-Methodist arguments in his Doctrine of Grace. Running through all of Warburton’s thinking on Methodism, from Methodism’s emergence in the late 1730s until the end of his life, was a fear of enthusiasm. Precisely what constituted enthusiasm was up for debate during the eighteenth century. Yet while enthusiasm was a labile term during the eighteenth century, it was almost always associated with the disordered religious and political life of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. This chapter shows how and why contemporaries made that association.

THE WESTMINSTER MAGISTRATE AND THE IRISH STROKER: SIR EDMUND GODFREY AND VALENTINE GREATRAKES, SOME UNPUBLISHED CORRESPONDENCE

1997 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 499-505 ◽  
Author(s):  
ALAN MARSHALL
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Historical Record ◽  
Close Friend ◽  
Political Life ◽  
National Library ◽  
Historical Investigation ◽  
Significant Addition ◽  
Justice Of The Peace ◽  
Popish Plot

One of the more absorbing events in the great drama of the Popish Plot, which swept through English political life in the autumn of 1678, was the discovery of the corpse of a Westminster magistrate, Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey, in a ditch near Primrose Hill on 17 October 1678. This event, which sparked off a great deal of panic in London and gained some notoriety at the time, has continued to perplex historians, both professional and amateur, ever since. The speculation as to how Godfrey met his death and who did the deed, has tended to obscure the fact that we still know surprisingly little about this prominent Westminster merchant and justice of the peace before his demise. Despite an intensive historical investigation of Godfrey's murder, if murder it was, a lack of evidence has always been the main problem for any historian attempting to analyse Godfrey's character and career prior to his death. This was compounded by the allegation that on the night before his disappearance Godfrey burnt a large number of his personal papers. However, located in the collections of the National Library of Ireland is a small white leather-backed volume containing seventeenth-century copies of the correspondence of Sir Edmund Godfrey to his close friend the Irish healer and stroker Valentine Greatrakes. This letterbook is a significant addition to the historical record in that it contains what may be the only surviving personal letters of the ‘murdered’ magistrate during the late 1660s and early 1670s.

scholarly journals Miron Costin – cronista e poeta

2020 ◽  
pp. 179-184
Author(s):  
Janina Janas
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Narrative Structures ◽  
The World ◽  
Baroque Era ◽  
The Military

The volume is based on the analysis of the historiographic and literary work of Miron Costin, who held positions of primary importance in the military, administrative and political life of the Principality of Moldavia during the central decades of the seventeenth century. In particular, are examined the narrative structures of his chronicles, which often are inspired by the creations of contemporary and previous Polish historians. Furthermore, the contribution to the affirmation of the latinity of the Romanian people is clarified, when the question had not yet been put on the agenda. Moreover, the echoes of Greek and Latin classicism are identified in the verses of the poem La vita del mondo (The life of the world), steeped in motifs and modules of the overflowing spirit of the Baroque era.

The Literati Revival in Seventeenth-century Vietnam

1987 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. W. Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
South China Sea ◽  
South China ◽  
The South China Sea ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Territorial Expansion ◽  
Significant Development ◽  
Vietnamese History

Modern Vietnamese history is generally considered to begin with the seventeenth century. The final destruction of the Cham kingdom and the concurrent territorial expansion presided over by the Nguyễn lords of Hue increased the visibility of the Vietnamese people along the South China Sea and attracted the attention of refugees, merchants, and missionaries from China, Japan, and Europe. These foreign contacts were symptomatic of basic changes occurring in Vietnam; they were not the cause. From the decline of the Lê dynasty early in the sixteenth century, political life was dominated by militarized family alliances. By the second quarter of the seventeenth century, the two most successful families in the competition for power were locked in a grim testing of wills. Mutually aggressive policies remained inconclusive after half a century of warfare, however, and were eventually abandoned by both parties. This resulted from the rise of new interests tied to the internal social, political, and economic conditions of Vietnam. The rise of these new interests was the most significant development in the seventeenth century.

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