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Introduction: Writing Early Modern London Notes Introduction: Writing Early Modern London 1 Gainsford (1618) The Glory of England, pp. 261–2. 2 Henry Peacham (1606) The art of drawing vvith the pen, p. 29. On the visual representation of early modern London see Gordon (2001) ‘Performing London: The Map and the city in Ceremony’ in Andrew Gordon and Bernhard Klein (eds) Literature, Mapping and the Politics of Space in Early Modern Britain (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), pp. 69–88. 3 Lawrence Manley has done more than any other to chart the diverse forms of urban literary production in the period with his study of cultural strategies of settlement across two centuries. Lawrence Manley (1995) Literature and Culture in Early Modern London (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). Amongst the principal further contributions to the study of literatures of the early modern city are: John Twyning (1998) London Dispossessed: Literature and Social Space in Early Modern London (Basingstoke: Macmillan – now Palgrave Macmillan); Janette Dillon (2000) Theatre, Court and City 1595–1620: Drama and Social Space in Early Modern London (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press); Gail Kern Paster (1985) The Idea of the City in the Age of Shakespeare (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press); Ian Munro (2005) The Figure of the Crowd in Early Modern London: The City and Its Double (New York: Palgrave Macmillan); Karen Newman (2007) Cultural Capitals: Early Modern London and Paris (Princeton: Princeton University Press); Jean E. Howard (2007) Theater of a City: The Places of London Comedy, 1598–1642 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press); J. F. Merritt (ed.) (2001) Imagining Early Modern London: Perceptions & Portrayals of the City from Stow to Strype 1598–1720 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press); Lena Cowen Orlin (ed.) (2000) Material London c.1600 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press). 4 Raymond Williams (1983) Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society (London: Fontana), p. 76; Zygmunt Bauman (2001) Community: Seeking Safety in an Insecure World (Cambridge: Polity), p. 3. 5 Anthony P. Cohen (1985) The Symbolic Construction of Community (London: Tavistock), pp. 19–20. 6 Cohen, The Symbolic Construction of Community, p. 20. 7 On community in the early modern period see Keith Wrightson (1996) ‘The Politics of the Parish in Early Modern England’ in Paul Griffiths, Adam Fox and Steve Hindle (eds) The Experience of Authority in Early Modern England (Basingstoke: Macmillan – now Palgrave Macmillan), pp. 10–46; Robert Tittler (1998) The Reformation and the Towns in England (Oxford: Clarendon Press), pp. 13–17; David Harris Sacks (1991) The 205 206 Notes Widening Gate: Bristol and the Atlantic Economy (Berkeley: University of California Press), pp. 4–15; Robert Scribner (1996) ‘Communities and the Nature of Power’, in Scribner (ed.) Germany: a New Social and Economic History 1450–1630 (London: Arnold), pp. 291–325; Alexandra Shepard and Phil Withington (eds) (2000) Communities in Early Modern England: Networks, Place, Rhetoric (Manchester: Manchester University Press); Michael J. Halvorson and Karen E. Spierling (eds) (2005) Defining Community in Early Modern Europe (Aldershot: Ashgate). 8 William Harrison (1577) Description of Britain, in Raphael Holinshed The Firste volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande and Irelande, fol. 77r. 9 Alexandra Shepard and Phil Withington, ‘Introduction: communities in Early Modern England’, in Communities in Early Modern England, p. 12. 10 Maurice Halbwachs (1992) On Collective Memory, ed. & trans. Lewis A. Coser (Berkeley: University of Chicago Press). On the influence of Halbwachs see Barbara A. Misztal (2003) Theories of Social Remembering (Maidenhead: Open University Press) and Peter Hutton (1993) History as an Art of Memory (Hanover, NH: University Press of New England). On Warburg see Kurt W. Forster (1976) ‘Aby Warburg’s History of Art: Collective Memory and the Social Mediation of Images’, Daedalus, 105, 169–76. 11 Jan Assman (1995) ‘Collective Memory and Cultural Identity’, New German Critique, 65, 125–33, p. 126, p. 128. 12 As Nora puts it ‘Lieux de mémoire exist because there are no longer any milieux de mémoire, settings in which memory is a real part of everyday existence’. Nora (1996) Realms of Memory: Rethinking the French Past, trans. Arthur Goldhammer (New York: Columbia University Press), vol. 1, p. 1. 13 Jack Goody (2000) The Power of the Written Tradition (Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press), p. 27; Adam Fox (2000) Oral and Literate Culture in England 1500–1700 (Oxford: Oxford University Press), p. 19. 14 M. T. Clanchy (1993) From Memory to Written Record: England 1066–1307 (Oxford: Blackwell). 15 Adam Fox (1996) ‘Custom, Memory and the Authority of Writing’ in Paul Griffiths, Adam Fox and Steve Hindle (eds) The Experience of Authority in Early Modern England (Basingstoke: Macmillan – now Palgrave Macmillan), pp. 89–116, p. 90. 16 See Andy Wood (1999) ‘Custom and the Social Organisation of Writing in Early Modern England’, TRHS, 6th series, 9, 257–69; idem (2001) ‘“Poore men woll speke one daye”: Plebeian Languages of Deference and Defiance in England, c.1520–1640’ in Tim Harris (ed.) The Politics of the Excluded, c.1500–1850 (Basingstoke: Palgrave – now Palgrave Macmillan), pp. 67–98. 17 Holinshed, The Firste volume of the Chronicles, fol. 85r. 18 Alexandra Shepard (2003) Meanings of Manhood in Early Modern England (Oxford: Oxford University Press), p. 230. 19 William Lambarde (1581) Eirenarcha: or of the office of the iustices of peace, p. 70. 20 Ian Archer (2001) ‘The Arts and Acts of Memorialisation in Early Modern London’, in J. F. Merritt (ed.) Imagining Early Modern London: Perceptions Notes 207 & Portrayals of the City from Stow to Strype 1598–1720 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), pp. 89–113; Robert Tittler (2007) The Face of the City: Civic Portraiture and Civic Identity in Early Modern England (Manchester: Manchester University Press). See also the essays collected in Andrew Gordon and Thomas Rist (eds) (2013) The Arts of Remembrance in Early Modern England (Farnham: Ashgate). 21 Will of Robert Rogers, 1602. The National Archive, Prob 11/99, fols 122v–125v, fol. 124v. 22 John Stow (1618) The Survey of London, revised Anthony Munday, pp. 602–3. Munday also records details of Rogers’s charitable bequests, pp. 185–6. 23 The broadside survives in a unique copy in the Huntington Library. The poem was soon adapted to serve as the inscription for the tomb of Thomas Sutton (d.1611) in which form Munday recorded it. Stow (1618) Survey of London, revised Munday, pp. 814–15. 24 On the single-sheet godly prints of the period see Tessa Watt (1991) Cheap Print and Popular Piety, 1550–1640 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), pp. 217–53. 25 Joshua Phillips (2010) English Fictions of Communal Identity, 1485–1603 (Farnham: Ashgate), p. 9. 26 Katherine French, Gary Gibbs and Beat Kumin (1997) ‘Introduction’, in The Parish in English Life, 1400–1600 (Manchester: Manchester University Press), p. 3; Michael Berlin (2000) ‘Reordering Rituals: Ceremony and the Parish, 1520–1640’ in Paul Griffiths and Mark Jenner (eds) Londinopolis: Essays in the Cultural and Social History of Early Modern London (Manchester: Manchester University Press), pp. 47–66, p. 61. 1 Henry Machyn’s Book of Remembrance 1 Susan Brigden (1989) London and the Reformation (Oxford: Clarendon Press), pp. 497–511; Diarmaid MacCulloch (1999) The Boy King: Edward VI and the Protestant Reformation (Basingstoke: Palgrave – now Palgrave Macmillan), pp. 93–5. 2 John Foxe (1570) Acts and Monuments, Book 8, p. 1466. 3 The Arundel Harington Manuscript of Tudor Poetry, ed. Ruth Hughey (Columbus: Ohio University Press, 1960), 2 vols, 1, p. 344. 4 The Diary of Henry Machyn, ed. John Gough Nichols (London: Camden Society, 1848). The manuscript is BL Cotton ms Vitellius Fv. A digitised edition is available online as A London Provisioner’s Chronicle, 1550–1563, by Henry Machyn: Manuscript, Transcription, and Modernization, created by Richard W. Bailey, Marilyn Miller and Colette Moore: http://quod.lib. umich.edu/m/machyn/. For ease of reference throughout this chapter I give modern-spelling transcriptions, following the online edition except where it either substitutes or adds words, or changes word order. 5 Elizabeth Bourcier (1976) Les Journaux privés en Angleterrre de 1600 à 1660 (Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne), p. 7. The term diary did not come into common use until the 1640s. Elizabeth Clarke (2000) ‘Diaries’ in 208 Notes Michael Hattaway (ed.) Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture (Oxford: Blackwell), pp. 609–14, p. 610; Adam Smyth (2010) Autobiography in Early Modern England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), pp. 1–3, 13–14. 6 Ian Mortimer (2002) ‘Tudor Chronicler or Sixteenth-Century Diarist? Henry Machyn and the Nature of His Manuscript’, Sixteenth Century Journal, 33/4, 981–98, p. 992. 7 Gary G. Gibbs (2006) ‘Marking the Days: Henry Machyn’s Manuscript and the Mid-Tudor Era’ in Eamon Duffy and David Loades (eds) The Church of Mary Tudor (Aldershot: Ashgate), pp. 281–308. 8 Mary-Rose McLaren (2002) The London Chronicles of the Fifteenth Century: A Revolution in English Writing (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer), pp. 230–9; Tittler, The Reformation and the Towns, pp. 279–94; F. J. Levy (1967) Tudor Historical Thought (San Marino: Huntington Library Publications), p. 24. 9 Gordon Kipling (2004) ‘Wriothesley, Charles (1508–1562)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography [Hereafter ODNB] (Oxford: Oxford University Press) [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/30071 (accessed 7, August 2012)]. The chronicle was published as A Chronicle of England During the Reign of the Tudors by Charles Wriothesley, ed. William Hamilton (London: Camden Society, 1875), 2 vols. 10 Levy, Tudor Historical Thought, p. 24. 11 Chronicle of the Grey Friars of London, ed. John Gough Nichols (London: Camden Society, 1852), p. 63. The manuscript is BL Cotton Vitellius F xii. On the register book see C. L. Kingsford (1915) The Grey Friars of London (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press), pp.
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