Divorce, wedding, and murder

Author(s):  
David M. Bergeron

This chapter focuses mainly on the Robert Carr-Frances Howard relationship, her divorce from the Earl of Essex, and subsequent marriage to Carr in an elaborate wedding on 26 December. This marriage solidified the political power of the Howard family. For the wedding, Thomas Campion wrote the first masque, and Jonson wrote two masques. The celebration extended into the City of London in early January with a procession to the Merchant Taylors’ Hall, which included a play, a banquet, a masque by Thomas Middleton, and other entertainments. On 6 January, the court witnessed the performance of Masque of Flowers, financed by Francis Bacon. Only Frances Howard and possibly Carr knew that Thomas Overbury, Carr’s friend, had been murdered in the Tower at her instigation. Not until 1615 did others learn of this plot.

Author(s):  
Aled Davies

This book is a study of the political economy of Britain’s chief financial centre, the City of London, in the two decades prior to the election of Margaret Thatcher’s first Conservative government in 1979. The primary purpose of the book is to evaluate the relationship between the financial sector based in the City, and the economic strategy of social democracy in post-war Britain. In particular, it focuses on how the financial system related to the social democratic pursuit of national industrial development and modernization, and on how the norms of social democratic economic policy were challenged by a variety of fundamental changes to the City that took place during the period....


Author(s):  
Priscila Romana Moraes de Melo

ResumoEste ensaio traz a fala de uma mulher que descobre em si um palhaço, mesmo atuando, há 13 anos, como palhaça. O encontro com o palhaço Uisquisito ocorreu em 2012, no grupo de teatro Palhaços Trovadores, do qual faço parte há 10 anos. A partir disso, atuar na palhaçaria com gêneros diferentes, feminino e masculino, trouxe-me reflexões não só na arte do palhaço, fato de ter dois palhaços, mas sobretudo, de se provocar discussões do que é uma mulher que tem um palhaço, que em suas primeiras experimentações faz leituras de poemas-manifestos. Com um olhar de pesquisadora para meu fazer artístico, escrever e ler poemas-manifestos se tornou uma característica do Uisquisito. Seus escritos sempre relacionados aos contextos políticos atuais da cidade de Belém, muitos referentes a falta de investimentos na área da cultura, ao descaso com os artistas, as limitações de acesso aos teatros e outros espaços para o movimento artístico na cidade. O Uisquisito me faz pensar na potência política que a comicidade tem, tanto no ato transgressor de uma mulher ser palhaça e ser palhaço por desejo, não por imposição, como era no circo antigamente, quanto na força de provocar reflexões sobre os contextos políticos na atualidade, trazendo o teatro, a comicidade e a palhaçaria como uma forte arma de discussão.AbstractThis essay brings the speech of a woman who discovers in herself a male clown, even though she has been acting for 13 years as a female clown. The meeting with the clown Uisquisito took place in 2012, in the theater group Palhaços Trovadores, which I have been a part of for the last 10 years. Acting through different gender in clowns brought me reflections, not only in the art of clown, in the fact of having two them, but most of all, provoking discussions of what is a woman who has a male clown, who in his first experiments performed poem-manifest readings. With a researcher’s eye at my artistic work, writing and reading poems-manifest has become a feature of Uisquisito. His writings are related to the current political contexts at the city of Belém, referring mainly to investments in the cultural area, neglect of artists, limitations of theaters and spaces for the artistic movement in the city. Uisquisito makes me think about the political power comedy has, first in the transgressing act of a woman being a being a male clown by desire, not by imposition, as it used to be in the circus of old. Second, in the force of provoking reflections on the political contexts nowadays, bringing the theater, comedy and clownery as a strong weapon of discussion.


2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 89
Author(s):  
Andrea Nicolotti

Resumen: En la Edad Media, había una gran variedad de sudarios venerados en distintas zonas del mundo cristiano. El sudario de Oviedo, tejido en torno al siglo VIII d.C, aparece registrado en las fuentes a partir del último cuarto del siglo XI y forma parte de las reliquias conservadas en la catedral de la ciudad. Su existencia puede considerarse uno de los efectos de los esfuerzos conjuntos que el clero y la política realizaron para proveer una legitimación histórica y propagandística a la supremacía de la sede de Oviedo. En los últimos cincuenta años, como consecuencia de la poderosa propaganda efectuada por algunos exponentes de una pseudo-ciencia conocida como “sindonología”, el Sudario de Oviedo goza de creciente fama, sobre todo mediática, y es presentado como si fuera una reliquia auténtica, es decir, como el verdadero sudario que envolvió la cabeza de Jesús de Nazaret.Abstract: In the Middle Ages, there was a great variety of shrouds venerated in different parts of the Christian world. The Sudarium of Oviedo, woven around the eighth century AD, is recorded in the sources as from the last quarter of the eleventh century and is one of the relics preserved in the cathedral of the city. Its existence can be considered one of the effects of the joint efforts that the clergy and the political power made to provide a historical and propagandistic legitimation to the supremacy of Oviedo’s bishopric. In the last fifty years, as a result of the powerful propaganda carried out by some exponents of a pseudo-science known as “syndonology”, the Sudarium of Oviedo enjoys a growing fame, especially in the media, and it is presented as if it were an authentic relic, that is, as the true shroud that wrapped the head of Jesus of Nazareth.


2017 ◽  
Vol 34 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 27-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aeron Davis ◽  
Catherine Walsh

Neoliberalism and financialization are not synonymous developments. Financialized nations are directed by particularly financialized epistemologies, cultures, and practices, not only neoliberal ones. In examining the financialization of the UK economy since the mid-1970s, this study discovers a socio-economic shift beyond the broad transition from Keynesianism towards free-market fundamentalism. Economic developments were guided by the very particular economic paradigms, discursive practices, and financial devices of the City of London, as financial elites became influential in the Thatcher governments. Five epistemological elements specific to finance are discussed: the creation of money in financial markets, the transactional focus of finance, the centrality of financial markets to economic management, the orthodoxy of shareholder value, and the intensely micro-economic approach to financial calculation. Identifying these distinctions creates new possibilities for understanding financialization, elites, and the neoliberal condition that brought about both the financial crash of 2007–8 and the political and economic crises that have followed.


Author(s):  
Arlene W. Saxonhouse

In the Archaeology of his History, Thucydides traces those factors that led to the rise of the cities that face one another in the war that he records. Foremost among them is the navy. I contend that this focus on the navy as the basis of political power captures for Thucydides the connection between movement and power: possession of power is not a static condition but always entails the unending search for more power, allowing the cities who possess navies/power no respite from constant motion. In contrast to what I call the “power trap” that ultimately leads to the destruction of the city engaged in the constant motion of pursuing power after power stands the permanence of the speech, the logoi, of the historian who can offer an “everlasting possession” such as eludes the political leaders of cities such as Athens caught up as they are in the power trap.


Author(s):  
Paul E. J. Hammer

This chapter summarizes the career of Robert Devereux, 2nd earl of Essex (1565–1601), who played a central role in English affairs during the 1590s. Essex has often been caricatured as the royal favourite who lost his head, both literally and figuratively. However, Essex was a hugely consequential figure in England’s political and cultural life during the latter years of Elizabeth’s reign. His dramatic fall in February 1601 caused widespread shock and grief. Although he was defeated in the political power struggle which ultimately cost him his life, Essex looms large in the work of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, with one direct allusion to him inHenry Vand a host of probable allusions to him elsewhere in Shakespeare’s plays.


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