Some Materials for a New Edition of Polydore Vergil's ‘History’

1902 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Francis Aidan Gasquet
Keyword(s):  
European Politics ◽  
Henry Viii ◽  
Contemporary History ◽  
National History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Henry Vii

The importance of Polydore Vergil's ‘History’ for the reign of Henry VII. is fully recognised by all students of that time. Dr. James Gairdner, without doubt our first English authority for the events of this period of our national history, considers that with the exception of the poetical story of Bernard André, from which we learn something, albeit very little, Vergil's work may be regarded as the only contemporary history of this reign. Dr. Wilhelm Busch also, in his excellent study of ‘England under the Tudors,’ speaks as strongly about our indebtedness to this cultured Italian ecclesiastic, and declares that ‘for elegance of language, easy narrative, firmness and independence of judgment [Polydore's work] far surpasses [that of] all the English historians of his day.’ Even for the reign of Henry VIII., although he is considered by some as ‘not so trustworthy, owing to his bias against Wolsey,’ his authority cannot be altogether set aside, since in the opinion of Mr. Brewer ‘no man was better informed on European politics’ at this time.

The Political History of England. The History of England from the Accession of Henry VII. to the Death of Henry VIII., 1485-1547. Volume V.

1908 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 334
Author(s):  
Roger Bigelow Merriman ◽  
William Hunt ◽  
Reginald L. Poole ◽  
H. A. L. Fisher
Keyword(s):  
Political History ◽  
The Political ◽  
Henry Viii ◽  
History Of ◽  
Henry Vii

II.—On some London Houses of the Early Tudor Period

Archaeologia ◽  
1921 ◽  
Vol 71 ◽  
pp. 17-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. L. Kingsford
Keyword(s):  
Fourteenth Century ◽  
Early History ◽  
Henry Viii ◽  
Precise Information ◽  
Degree Of Certainty ◽  
History Of ◽  
Henry Vii

I have no intention to enter upon any general discussion of the character of London houses in the Tudor period. My only purpose is to lay before the Society such information as I have been able to collect with regard to four particular houses, which will serve to illustrate the furnishing, the arrangement of the rooms, the external surroundings, and in one instance the actual plan. Of the first of these houses I have no exact history of earlier date, but I am able to supply a precise Inventory of its contents room by room in 1509. The second and third–the Coldharbour and the Erber–were in their origin fourteenth-century houses of which the early history is well known, though of neither, so far as I am aware, do we possess such precise information with regard to the buildings as that which I have obtained for their condition in the reigns of Henry VII and Henry VIII. The fourth is a much less important building erected (or rebuilt) about 1555, but is of interest from the fact that we are able to restore its plan with some degree of certainty.

scholarly journals The High Court of Admiralty in Relation to National History, Commerce and the Colonisation of America.— A.D. 1550–1650

1902 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 69-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. G. Marsden
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
General Idea ◽  
General Interest ◽  
Henry Viii ◽  
National History ◽  
High Court ◽  
The North ◽  
History Of ◽  
Limited Period

The High or Principal Court of the Admiralty of England was erected probably about the beginning of the fifteenth century, and for half a century before this courts were held by the Admirals of the North, South, and West within their respective districts. But the business of these early Admiralty Courts was trifling, and they have left scarcely any records. There are upon the Patent Rolls and elsewhere a few meagre references to their proceedings, but these are of little interest, and need not delay us to-night. It was Henry VIII. who first raised the Court to something like the importance of the King's Courts at Westminster, and its records may be said to begin with his reign. But for many years they are scanty in bulk, and it is not until about the year 1550 that they begin to be of any general interest. From this date onwards they are very voluminous; and in order to give a general idea of their character as a whole it will be necessary for me to-night to deal with those of a limited period only. I select those which belong to the latter half of the sixteenth and first half of the seventeenth century, because they are the earliest, and also because, this being the period of the Court's greatest activity, they are the most interesting. The history of England is to a great extent the history of her ships and seamen, and this is notably the case during the century with which I propose to deal.

On The Possibility of an Autonomous History of Modern Southeast Asia

1961 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 73-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
John R. W. Small
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Contemporary History ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of

It is generally accepted that history is an element of culture and the historian a member of society, thus, in Croce's aphorism, that the only true history is contemporary history. It follows from this that when there occur great changes in the contemporary scene, there must also be great changes in historiography, that the vision not merely of the present but also of the past must change.

The Guatemalan Genocide Through Indigenous Mayan Literature Twenty Years After the Peace Accords: Rigoberta Menchú, Humberto Ak´Abal and Victor Montejo

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 31
Author(s):  
David Caballero Mariscal
Keyword(s):  
Social Exclusion ◽  
Dark Period ◽  
Social Situation ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Contemporary History ◽  
Rigoberta Menchu ◽  
Testimonial Literature ◽  
History Of ◽  
Peace Accords ◽  
Historical Truth

Guatemala experienced a cruel genocide in the early eighties, in the context of a repressive Conflict. Due to the different governments´ repressive policies, this terrible social situation was little known abroad, and even in the own country. Just after the Peace Accords, several organisms worked to uncover the historical truth. In any case, we cannot forget that testimonial literature is a privileged mean to know this dark period of the contemporary history of Guatemala. This genre is particularly relevant, because the main writers are originally Mayans, and have directly suffered both repression and social exclusion due to ethnic reasons. Rigoberta Menchú, Unmberto Ak´abal and Víctor Montejo represent a new and original point of view in the measure in which they describe feelings and situations from the perspective of those who experience them personally. Testimonial literature or the Testimonio becomes an ethnographic document that allows us to know not just a period but a people who have suffered from repression and exclusion for centuries.

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