Samuel Pepys (1633–1703), The Diary of Samuel Pepys

2021 ◽  
pp. 38-41
Author(s):  
Katie Barclay ◽  
François Soyer
Keyword(s):  
Samuel Pepys

Succession

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Hone
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Alexander Pope ◽  
Full Spectrum ◽  
Anne Finch ◽  
William Iii ◽  
Samuel Pepys

This chapter introduces and explores the full spectrum of positions on the succession across a range of texts responding to the deaths of William III and James II. It demonstrates the collapse of earlier norms of royal mourning by unearthing how royal elegy—a sacrosanct genre in the seventeenth century—became a vehicle for opposition satire. Anne Finch, Alexander Pope, Samuel Pepys, and William Pittis were all involved in writing or circulating Jacobite libels in manuscript. Examining the scribal circulation of satires sheds new light on their political allegiances and networks. The chapter ends with a sustained contextual examination of Daniel Defoe’s poem The Mock Mourners.

Samuel Pepys

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernard Capp
Keyword(s):  
Samuel Pepys

The famous diarist Samuel Pepys felt responsible for the welfare of his three siblings, Tom, Pall, and John, an important aspect of his life that is often overlooked. In the case of feckless Tom, a tailor, Pepys sought to put his trade on an even keel and find him a wife. John, an idle student, had to be helped through university and into a career. In the case of Pall, plain and truculent, Pepys devoted huge time and effort to finding her security through marriage. His support and commitment is all the more striking given that he felt little affection for any of them, while they in turn resented his overbearing manner and demands for deference and obedience. Despite the rivalries, the family’s story underlines the strength of sibling ties, and the tensions within them, and shows the famous diarist in a new light.

Samuel Pepys

1889 ◽  
Vol s7-VII (167) ◽  
pp. 196-197
Author(s):  
Julian Marshall
Keyword(s):  
Samuel Pepys

The Diary of Samuel Pepys. A New and Complete Transcription, Vols. I-III, 1600-1662.

1973 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 698
Author(s):  
Robert Ashton ◽  
Robert Latham ◽  
William Matthews
Keyword(s):  
Samuel Pepys

Serjeant Knight's Discourse on the Cross and Flags of St George (1678)

2001 ◽  
Vol 81 ◽  
pp. 351-390
Author(s):  
C S Knighton ◽  
Timothy Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Dominant Feature ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Cross ◽  
Charles Ii ◽  
Manuscript Copy ◽  
Samuel Pepys ◽  
Original Drawings

In January 1678 John Knight, the Serjeant Surgeon of Charles II, sent to Samuel Pepys a ‘Discourse containing the History of the Cross of St. George, and its becoming the Sole Distinction = Flag, Badge or Cognizance of England, by Sea and Land’. Knight argued that St George's cross should become the dominant feature in English flags and supported his argument with a history of the cross.A manuscript copy of this discourse, with Knight's original drawings, survives in the Pepys Library, Magdalene College, Cambridge, and is published here. A brief biography of Knight is presented and an account of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century controversies about St George. The latter was an issue which caused acrimony between Royalists and Puritans. An Appendix reconstructs Knight's library, principally consisting of books concerning heraldry, topography and history.

scholarly journals Dos visiones de la misma peste

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Armando González-Torres
Keyword(s):  
Daniel Defoe ◽  
Samuel Pepys

El texto aborda, inicialmente, las recurrentes apariciones de diversas epidemias a lo largo de la historia de la humanidad, como un problema constante, no sólo de salud, sino también como parte, terrible, de la estructura social; la reseña menciona cómo la literatura es fundamental para la recreación de las epidemias y así reconocer las constantes acciones para mitigar y controlarlas, pero también para distinguir los actos de grupos sociales con diversas finalidades. La segunda parte, la más importante, reflexiona profundamente sobre los diarios de dos escritores ingleses: Samuel Pepys, enriquecido en y con la plaga, y Daniel Defoe, con mayores preocupaciones en casi todos los ámbitos culturales, sobre la epidemia que azotó a Londres.

Bodies Unseen

Janus Head ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 35-48
Author(s):  
Natalie Alvarez ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Black Hole ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
The Body ◽  
Virtual Space ◽  
Theatrical Space ◽  
Samuel Pepys

The struggle to “adapt” to the presence of the corpse serves as the central turning point for this investigation into the theatrical encounters with the corpse in the early modern anatomy theatre. Beginning with novelist W.G. Sebald’s claim, in The Rings of Saturn, that the art of anatomy was a way of “making the reprobate body invisible,” Alvarez queries how the corpse as the central “gure of this theatrical space challenges conventional modes of theatrical looking and how the particular viewing procedures invited by the anatomy theatre, as a theatrical space, effectively make the body “unseen.” Using Restoration diarist Samuel Pepys’ documented encounter with a corpse and the early phenomenologist Aurel Kolnai’s writings On Disgust, Alvarez attempts to account for the “perceptual and interpretive black hole” that the corpse presents in this schema. The corpse’s “radical actuality” and, paradoxically, its “surplus of life” act as a cipher that cuts through the virtual space constructed by the anatomical demonstration, undermining the gravitas of the scientific gaze that has acquired its weight in contradistinction to the theatricality of the event. But the corpse’s “radical actuality” and its “surplus of life” introduces a danse macabre of theatrical looking that moves between absorption and repulsion, reversing the otherwise consumptive gaze of the onlooker.

Robert Clifford Latham 1912–1995

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eamon Duffy
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Alma Mater ◽  
Scholarly Edition ◽  
The World ◽  
Historical Writings ◽  
Formed Part ◽  
Honorary Fellowship ◽  
Samuel Pepys

Robert Clifford Latham never wrote a monograph of his own, and published fewer than a dozen scholarly articles. But his life-enhancing work as editor of the definitive edition of the most vivid and revealing diary in the language will be remembered with affection and gratitude far beyond the world of learning, when the historical writings of most of his colleagues and contemporaries have been long forgotten. The six manuscript volumes of the diary of Samuel Pepys formed part of the magnificent library Pepys had bequeathed to his Alma Mater, Magdalene College Cambridge. Overlooked for more than a century, they were first published in a much abbreviated and bowdlerized form in 1825. Both the College and Bell and Sons, the publishers of the Diary, were acutely aware of the need for a new scholarly edition, but for the first half of the 20th century the project was dogged by amateurism and a marked absence of urgency on the part of those involved. Latham eventually undertook editorial oversight of the project as a whole. The success of the Pepys edition brought him many honours: the CBE in 1973, election to the British Academy in 1982, an honorary Fellowship of Magdalene in 1984, and of Royal Holloway in 1989.

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