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Yale in London: Spring 2015 1 BRST196/HIST 254J Keith Wrightson Time and Place in Early Modern England Yale in London: Spring 2015 This seminar explores perceptions of time and place in England, c. 1500-1800, and their relationship to both personal and social identity. These issues are approached using appropriate theoretical and substantive readings and both visual and textual primary sources. Particular attention will be given to the use of visual images as historical evidence. Specific issues addressed include the development of cartography, chorography and antiquarianism; conventions of time reckoning and the dating of events; perceptions of the life course; the creation of social memory and historical narratives; representations of social place; agrarian change and the transformation of the landscape; the impact of the Reformation on the calendar, the landscape, and senses of the past; representations of previously unknown places and peoples, and ‘iconic’ places and their significance. Primary sources for discussion include maps and prospects; chorographical surveys; illustrated antiquarian writings; almanacs; pictorial representations of notable events; engravings; paintings (portraits; ‘country house portraits’; landscapes; ‘conversation pieces’; History Painting and ‘documentary’ works); memorials; family histories; extracts from court records. A course packet of secondary readings is available from Tyco, Broadway. The syllabus contains URLs which will guide you to primary sources which can be accessed online from Early English Books Online [EEBO] or other online collections and downloaded. A number of additional primary sources will be posted in the resources section of the Classes*v2 server. A list of suggestions for Student Presentations is appended to this syllabus. N.B. It is vital that you have Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client on your computer so that you can access Yale Library resources from London. Assessment will be based on: Short paper (c.5pp.) 20% - due Week 7 Class presentation (15-20 mins) 20% Longer paper (c.10pp.) 50% - due Week 14 Participation 10% 2 Week 1: Jan 13 Introduction The agenda; the syllabus; resources for study Week 2: Jan 20 Establishing Themes: Time, Place, Memory & Identity Discussion of introductory readings [90 pp.] from: P. Connerton, How Societies Remember (2010 edit) Intro & ch.1 on ‘Social Memory’, pp. 1-40 D. Massey. “Places and their Pasts”. History Workshop Journal 39 (1995), pp. 182-91 [JSTOR] D. Woolf, The Social Circulation of the Past (2003) pp. 1-15, 271-4 N. Whyte, Inhabiting the Landscape (2009) pp. 1-9 P. Burke, Eyewitnessing. The Uses if Images as Historical Evidence (2001) Intro, pp. 1-21 [Online Book via Orbis] Week 3: Jan 27 Charting place and time: cartography a) J.P. Hartley, “Maps, Knowledge and Power”, in D. Cosgrove & S. Daniels ed. The Iconography of Landscape (1988) pp. 277-312. R. Helgerson 'The Land Speaks' in his Forms of Nationhood: The Elizabethan Writing of England (1992) pp. 107-139 b) John Speed, Prospect of the Most Famous Parts of the World…Asia, Africa, Europe, America (1627) Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain (1611) We will use the 1631 edition including both works: looking more closely at images 4, 49, 51, 65, 67, 87, 156 http://eebo.chadwyck.com/search/full_rec?SOURCE=pgimages.cfg&ACTION =ByID&ID=V23145 3 Christopher Saxton, Atlas of the Counties of England and Wales (1579) EEBO: http://eebo.chadwyck.com/search/full_rec?SOURCE=pgimages.cfg&ACTION=By ID&ID=V27074 Look at Frontispiece: image 1 Braun & Hogenberg, Civitates Orbis Terrarum (1572) London Map http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Antique_map_of_London_by_Braun_%26_ Hogenberg.jpg Wenceslaus Hollar: The ‘Long View’ of London (1647) http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1647_Long_view_of_London_From_Bankside_- _Wenceslaus_Hollar.jpg John Strype Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster (1720). http://www.hrionline.ac.uk/strype/ [see Westminster parishes: St Giles- in-the-Fields, Book 4, ch. 4] Week 4: Feb 3 Discovering time through place: chorography & antiquarianism a) D. Woolf, The Social Circulation of the Past (2003) pp. 141-82, 352-88. b) William Camden, Britain, or a Chorographical Description trans. P. Holland (1610) – ‘The Author to the Reader’ + pp. 240-257 (Wiltshire). http://eebo.chadwyck.com/search/full_rec?SOURCE=pgimages.cfg&ACTION =ByID&ID=V7564 Richard Carew, The Survey of Cornwall (1602), pp. 120-3 (Lesnewith Hundred) http://eebo.chadwyck.com/search/full_rec?SOURCE=pgimages.cfg&ACTION =ByID&ID=V7891 William Dugdale, Antiquities of Warwickshire Illustrated (1656), pp. 297-303 (Warwick) & 521-2 (Shakespeare monument in Stratford-upon-Avon) http://eebo.chadwyck.com/search/full_rec?SOURCE=pgimages.cfg&ACTION =ByID&ID=V58176 Thomas Machell’s Queries (1676-7) http://eebo.chadwyck.com/search/full_rec?SOURCE=pgimages.cfg&ACTION =ByID&ID=V205918 4 William Stukeley, Itinerarium Curiosum (1724) , Vol I pp. 175-6 (Old Sarum) & 153-8 (Dorchester) + plates in Vol II (images 15-18, 30-32, 42-43) http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?type=search&tabID=T001&qu eryId=Locale%28en%2C%2C%29%3AFQE%3D%28BN%2CNone%2C7%29 T099861%24&sort=Author&searchType=AdvancedSearchForm&version=1. 0&userGroupName=29002&prodId=ECCO Extracts from Antiquityes and Memoryes of the Parish of Myddle Written by Richard Gough (1700) [prepared by KW] Classes*v2 Resources Week 5: Feb 10 Shaping Time 1. Social & cultural conventions a) P. A. Sorokin & R.K. Merton, “Social Time: a methodological & functional analysis”, American Jnl of Sociology, 42. 5 (1937), pp. 615-629 [JSTOR] D. Cressy, Bonfires and Bells (1989) ch. 2 (pp. 13-33) P. Glennie & N. Thrift, Shaping the Day (2009), chs. 3-4 pp. 65-134 [Online book via Orbis] b) ‘Dating statements from court depositions’ [prepared by KW] Classes *v2 Resources George Naworth, A Newe Almanacke and Prognostication (1642) http://eebo.chadwyck.com/search/full_rec?SOURCE=pgimages.cfg&ACTI ON=ByID&ID=V199287 George Wharton, Calendarium Ecclesiasticum, or A New Almanack (1657) http://eebo.chadwyck.com/search/full_rec?SOURCE=pgimages.cfg&ACTI ON=ByID&ID=V105025 Pages from Thomas Trevilian’s Commonplace Book (1608): Folger Shakespeare Library: months of June, July, August, October, November. (Classes*v2 Resources) Wenceslaus Hollar ‘The Four Seasons’ – Winter http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bd/Wenceslas_Holl ar_-_Winter.jpg William Hogarth, The Four Times of Day [YCBA 223B, C, 115, Sh-3, vol. IV Obj # B1981.25 1424-7; online Lewis Walpole Digital Library: 5 Morning: http://images.library.yale.edu/walpoleweb/oneitem.asp?imageId=lwlpr 22246 Night: http://images.library.yale.edu/walpoleweb/fullzoom.asp?imageid=lwlpr 22249 [Week 6: extended field trip to York – no class] Week 7: Feb 24 Shaping Time II: Family Time and the Life Course [Short Paper due end of week 7] a) D. Woolf, The Social Circulation of the Past (2003) ch. 3 ‘The Cultivation of Heredity’, pp. 74-98. b) Picturing a Life: Sir Henry Unton’s memorial portrait [NPG 710] View online http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw06456/Sir- Henry-Unton + for a navigable version http://primary.naace.co.uk/activities/unton/portrait/bits/frames.htm Family narratives from Richard Gough’s, Observations concerning the Seates In Myddle (1701) [prepared by KW ] Classes*v2 Resources Declensions: Three life stories of the London Hanged from The Ordinary’s Account of Newgate Prison, 1729. [prepared by KW] Classes*v2 Resources William Hogarth: A Harlot’s Progress [available online from Lewis Walpole Digital Collections] http://images.library.yale.edu/walpoleweb/oneitem.asp?imageId=lwlpr22337 http://images.library.yale.edu/walpoleweb/oneitem.asp?imageId=lwlpr22338 http://images.library.yale.edu/walpoleweb/oneitem.asp?imageId=lwlpr22340 http://images.library.yale.edu/walpoleweb/oneitem.asp?imageId=lwlpr22341 http://images.library.yale.edu/walpoleweb/fullzoom.asp?imageid=lwlpr22237 http://images.library.yale.edu/walpoleweb/oneitem.asp?imageId=lwlpr22342 Week 8: Mar 3 Shaping Time III: Historical events and reference points a) D. Woolf, The Social Circulation of the Past (2003) ch. 6 ‘Seeing the past’ pp. 183-202 + ‘Community Memory, Social Memory & History’, pp. 289-99. 6 A. Fox, “Remembering the Past in Early Modern England”, TRHS, 6th ser., IX (1999) pp. 233-256. [JSTOR] b) An Allegory of the Tudor Succession (The Family of Henry VIII) http://collections.britishart.yale.edu/vufind/Record/1666690 ‘Deliverances’ of the Beleaguered Isle: Samuel Ward, The Papists Powder Treason (1680 – originally 1621] http://eebo.chadwyck.com/search/full_rec?SOURCE=pgimages.cfg&ACTION=ByID& ID=V43040 Almanacs and defining historical time lines: Thomas Trevilian’s Commonplace Book (1608): Folger Shakespeare Library: “A briefe computation of the time” (Classes*v2 Resources) George Naworth, A Newe Almanacke and Prognostication (1642) – Image 2 “A Computation of Time” http://eebo.chadwyck.com/search/full_rec?SOURCE=pgimages.cfg&ACTI ON=ByID&ID=V199287 George Wharton, Calendarium Ecclesiasticum (1657) – Image 4 “Regall Table” + Image 31ff “Gesta Britannorum” http://eebo.chadwyck.com/search/full_rec?SOURCE=pgimages.cfg&ACTI ON=ByID&ID=V105025 History Painting: Benjamin West, Death of General Wolfe (1770) http://www.gallery.ca/en/see/collections/artwork.php?mkey=5363 Week 9: Mar 10 Knowing your place I: elites and aspirants a) T. Cooper, A Guide to Tudor and Jacobean Portraits (2008) 46pp. T. Cooper, Citizen Portrait (2012) pp. 66-101 (35 pp) b) M. Dewar ed., De Republica Anglorum by Sir Thomas Smith (Cambridge, 1982), pp. 57-9, 65-77, 130-35, 140-42. [the social order described] Gillis van Tilborgh: The Tichborne Dole (1671) http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tichborne_dole.jpg 7 Lady Ann Clifford’s ‘The Great Picture’ triptych http://www.thehistoryblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/The-Great-Picture- Anne-Clifford.jpg [Week 10: Mar 16-22, Yale-in-London Spring Break] Week 11: Mar 24 Knowing your place II: Plebeians D. Solkin, “Joseph Wright & the subversive art of labour” Representations 83 (2003) [JSTOR] K. Snell, “In and out of their place: the migrant poor in English art”, Rural History 24 (2013) pp.
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