A Canon, A Choirboy, and Homosexuality in Late Sixteenth-Century Italy: A Case Study

2019 ◽  
pp. XXI_1-XXI_22
Author(s):  
Richard Sherr
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century

scholarly journals VISUALIZING GERMANNESS THROUGH COSTUMES IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-32
Author(s):  
FREDERICK G. CROFTS
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Holy Roman Empire ◽  
Production Networks ◽  
Continuity And Change ◽  
Political Landscape ◽  
History Of ◽  
Scholarly Discourse ◽  
Material Exchange

ABSTRACT Examining the understudied collection of costume images from Heidelberg Calvinist, lawyer, and church councillor Marcus zum Lamm's (1544–1606) ‘treasury’ of images, the Thesaurus Picturarum, this article intervenes in the historiography on sixteenth-century German national imaginaries, emphasizing the import of costume books and manuscript alba for national self-fashioning. By bringing late sixteenth-century ethnographic costume image collections into scholarly discourse on the variegated ways of conceiving and visualizing Germany and Germanness over the century, this article sheds new light on a complex narrative of continuity and change in the history of German nationhood and identity. Using zum Lamm's images as a case-study, this article stresses the importance of incorporating costume image collections into a nexus of patriotic genres, including works of topographical-historical, natural philosophical, ethnographic, cartographic, cosmographic, and genealogical interest. Furthermore, it calls for historians working on sixteenth-century costume books and alba to look deeper into the meanings of such images and collections in the specific contexts of their production; networks of knowledge and material exchange; and – in the German context – the political landscape of territorialization, confessionalization, and dynastic ambition in the Holy Roman Empire between the Peace of Augsburg and the Thirty Years War (1555–1618).

Music in the French Domestic Interior (1500–1600)

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
SOPHIE PICKFORD
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
Leisure Activities ◽  
Music Making

This chapter considers music-making and the material culture of music in the French domestic interior (1500–1600) with the primary aims of outlining the field; discussing the context for entertaining, particularly in châteaux; as well as investigating the kind of music-related objects found in houses. Châteaux and other élite domestic settings often housed vibrant households, with music as a key part of inhabitants' leisure activities. From services in the chapel to banquets in the great hall, music was a common feature of privileged life. The chapter falls into two halves. First, it discusses the use of inventories in investigating music in châteaux, looking at the range of documents available dating from the sixteenth century, their limitations and, finally, the evidence they offer. Secondly, it takes the grande salle as a case study and examines the use of music as entertainment in this space.

Introducing the Marots

Born to Write ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 233-235
Author(s):  
Neil Kenny
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Social Hierarchy ◽  
The Family ◽  
Literate Culture ◽  
Clement Marot ◽  
The Relationship

Chapters 16–19 are a case study of the family that produced the best-selling vernacular literary author of sixteenth-century France: Clément Marot. The example of this family also provides one way of examining the relationship to family and social hierarchy of a genre of writing that was fundamental to literate culture: poetry. The aspiration to social ascent was only one of the reasons why poetry was so widely composed in sixteenth-century France, but it was a key one. Like other cultural practices—ranging from dress and heraldry to forms of address—poetry was therefore itself part of the very mechanics that constructed social hierarchy.

The Growth of Maritime Archaeology in Mexico: A Case Study

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pilar Luna Erreguerena
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Maritime Archaeology ◽  
Effective Management ◽  
International Treaties ◽  
Heritage Sites ◽  
Open Sea ◽  
Archaeological Work ◽  
Submerged Cultural Heritage

Mexico's underwater cultural heritage represents a vast and splendid universe varying from prehistoric to modern remains. But one of its main cultural riches is contained in its coastal and open-sea waters, where hundreds of ships have wrecked since the sixteenth century. Most of the underwater archaeological work undertaken since the 1980s has been in marine waters, especially the Gulf of Mexico. This article explains the discourse of maritime archaeology in Mexico through various phases such as the pre Colombian navigation, the European navigation, and stages of underwater recovery and underwater archaeology in the Mexican waters. In Mexico, the effective management of submerged heritage sites has proved difficult. Although it has no specific laws, Mexico has gained a better awareness regarding the importance of preserving its submerged cultural heritage and has signed and ratified diverse international treaties and the future looks promising.

Tudor Silver-Gilt Dress-hooks: A New Class of Treasure Find in England

2002 ◽  
Vol 82 ◽  
pp. 157-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Gaimster ◽  
Maria Hayward ◽  
David Mitchell ◽  
Karen Parker
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Historical Archaeology ◽  
Gender Bias ◽  
New Class ◽  
Documentary Sources

This paper combines a study of the typological, technological and constructional attributes of a sample of fifteen dress-hooks and cap-hooks, reported between 1998 and 2000 under the terms of the Treasure Act (1996), with a survey of contemporary pictorial sources, probate inventories and associated wills along with a trawl of ‘small wares’ in the records of the Goldsmiths' Company in order to assess the role of these accessories in vernacular dress of sixteenth-century England.Of particular interest are questions of manufacture and design, followed by the questions of how these objects functioned in relation to the closure and decoration of dress, their noteworthiness in contemporary accounts, their social status, their ranking in the output of contemporary goldsmiths and whether there was a gender bias in terms of their ownership. This cross-examination of excavated finds with contemporary iconographie and documentary sources represents an interdisciplinary case study in historical archaeology.

Labourers in late sixteenth-century England: a case study from north Norfolk [Part II]

1989 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 367-394 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Hassell Smith
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Premiere Partie

La première partie de cet article constatait le degré de specialisation, les sortes d'emplois et les différences de revenus et du train de vie parmi les ouvriers du nord de Norfolk à la fin du seizième siècle. La deuxième partie recherche l'etendue des activités qui permettent à la majorité des ouvriers sous-employés et des journaliers d'assurer leur subsistance pendant les années quatre-vingts-dix du seizième siècle. L'auteur avance que la nécessité d'exploiter à fond une économie à facettes multiples a mené à des stratégies de l'emploi qui peuvent avoir entraîné l'occupation d'une quelconque propriété par une famille multiple. En conclusion l'auteur passe rapidement en revue quelques unes des implications de cette étude pour des aspects de l'histoire du début de l'époque moderne tels que la structure des petites communautés et les divisions à l'interieur de ces groupes, les différentes sortes de travail féminin, l'emplacement de l'industrie rurale; les attitudes à l'égard du travail, le logement des ouvriers et l'importance des réseaux souvent extra-paroissiaux, comme nerfs de la vie rurale.

An Interjection of the Royal Prerogative Into the Legal and Ecclesiastical Affairs of Cheshire in the Fifteen Seventies

1973 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 226-236
Author(s):  
Michael B. Pulman
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Infinite Series ◽  
Central Government ◽  
16Th Century ◽  
Successful Completion ◽  
The South ◽  
Definition Of

It has been remarked that the dissolution of the monasteries amounted to an infinite series of adjustments. This could hardly be more true than it is in the case of what happened to the lands of the dissolved abbey of St. Werburgh in Chester—a city about one hundred and seventy miles northwest of London, situated in a section of the country that was, at least compared with much of the south, uncouth and backward. Here the process of adjustment was so protracted, and in the end productive of so much acrimony, that the intervention of the highest authority in the land—that of the queen herself—was directly necessary for its successful completion, and, even with that intervention, a final concord was scarcely achieved before the 16th century gave way to the seventeenth. In Cheshire, the upheaval caused by the sudden disappearance of the regular Church was long in settling down. Settlement there was, eventually, but it was so slow in coming that one might consider amending the definition of the dissolution mentioned above to read: an infinite series of adjustments, almost infinitely prolonged.What happened in Cheshire can be seen from at least two viewpoints. It can be viewed as providing spectacular evidence as to who benefited the most from Henry VIII's attack upon the ecclesiastical institution; or it can be cited as a case study of just how the central government exercised its control over local affairs during the latter sixteenth century. Here I am concerned with both.

scholarly journals THE LUTHERAN IDENTITY OF JOSQUIN’SMISSA PANGE LINGUA: RENAISSANCE OF A RENAISSANCE MASS

2017 ◽  
Vol 36 ◽  
pp. 193-249
Author(s):  
Alanna Ropchock Tierno
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Reception History ◽  
Catholic Identity ◽  
Additional Layer ◽  
History Of ◽  
Pange Lingua ◽  
Printed Sources

In sixteenth-century Germany, both Catholics and Lutherans circulated and performed Josquin’sMissa Pange lingua, even though its model, the hymnPange lingua, was associated with Eucharistic practices that were exclusively Catholic. This source-based study reveals how Lutherans selected theMissa Pange linguafor performance over other available masses and adapted it for their liturgical and pedagogical needs. Two printed sources of the mass offer perspectives on how Lutherans might have negotiated the polemical rituals and theology associated with theMissa Pange linguaalongside an aesthetic interest in the work. The intention of this study is not to de-emphasise the connection between theMissa Pange linguaand its borrowed melody or the initial Catholic identity of the mass. Rather, the Lutheran identity of theMissa Pange linguaprovides an additional layer to the early reception history of this work and a case study of the Lutheran appropriation of Catholic music.

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