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Thames Valley Papists from Reformation to Emancipation 1534 - 1829
Thames Valley Papists From Reformation to Emancipation 1534 - 1829 Tony Hadland Copyright © 1992 & 2004 by Tony Hadland All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form, or by any means – electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise – without prior permission in writing from the publisher and author. The moral right of Tony Hadland to be identified as author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN 0 9547547 0 0 First edition published as a hardback by Tony Hadland in 1992. This new edition published in soft cover in April 2004 by The Mapledurham 1997 Trust, Mapledurham HOUSE, Reading, RG4 7TR. Pre-press and design by Tony Hadland E-mail: [email protected] Printed by Antony Rowe Limited, 2 Whittle Drive, Highfield Industrial Estate, Eastbourne, East Sussex, BN23 6QT. E-mail: [email protected] While every effort has been made to ensure accuracy, neither the author nor the publisher can be held responsible for any loss or inconvenience arising from errors contained in this work. Feedback from readers on points of accuracy will be welcomed and should be e-mailed to [email protected] or mailed to the author via the publisher. Front cover: Mapledurham House, front elevation. Back cover: Mapledurham House, as seen from the Thames. A high gable end, clad in reflective oyster shells, indicated a safe house for Catholics. -
Emi Nakamura Recipient of the 2014 Elaine Bennett Research Prize
Emi Nakamura Recipient of the 2014 Elaine Bennett Research Prize EMI NAKAMURA, Associate Professor of Business and Economics at Columbia University, is the recipient of the 2014 Elaine Bennett Research Prize. Established in 1998 by the American Economic Association’s (AEA) Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession (CSWEP), the Elaine Bennett Research Prize recognizes and honors outstanding research in any field of economics by a woman not more than seven years beyond her Ph.D. Professor Nakamura will formally accept the Bennett Prize at the CSWEP Business Meeting and Luncheon held during the 2015 AEA Meeting in Boston, MA. The event is scheduled for 12:30-2:15PM on January 3, 2015 at the Sheraton Boston. Emi Nakamura’s distinctive approach tackles important research questions with serious and painstaking data work. Her groundbreaking paper “Five Facts about Prices: A Reevaluation of Menu Cost Models” (Steinsson, Jón and Emi Nakamura. 2008. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 123:4, 1415-1464) is based on extensive analysis of individual price data. She finds that, once temporary sales are properly taken into account, prices exhibit a high degree of rigidity consistent with Keynesian theories of business cycles and that prior evidence overstated the degree of price flexibility in the economy. Dr. Nakamura’s work on fiscal stimulus combines a novel cross-section approach to identifying parameters with a careful interpretation of business cycle theory to shed new light on crucial questions in macroeconomics. Her findings imply that government spending can provide a powerful stimulus to the economy at times when monetary policy is unresponsive, e.g. -
Rohini Pande
ROHINI PANDE 27 Hillhouse Avenue 203.432.3637(w) PO Box 208269 [email protected] New Haven, CT 06520-8269 https://campuspress.yale.edu/rpande EDUCATION 1999 Ph.D., Economics, London School of Economics 1995 M.Sc. in Economics, London School of Economics (Distinction) 1994 MA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, Oxford University 1992 BA (Hons.) in Economics, St. Stephens College, Delhi University PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE ACADEMIC POSITIONS 2019 – Henry J. Heinz II Professor of Economics, Yale University 2018 – 2019 Rafik Hariri Professor of International Political Economy, Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University 2006 – 2017 Mohammed Kamal Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University 2005 – 2006 Associate Professor of Economics, Yale University 2003 – 2005 Assistant Professor of Economics, Yale University 1999 – 2003 Assistant Professor of Economics, Columbia University VISITING POSITIONS April 2018 Ta-Chung Liu Distinguished Visitor at Becker Friedman Institute, UChicago Spring 2017 Visiting Professor of Economics, University of Pompeu Fabra and Stanford Fall 2010 Visiting Professor of Economics, London School of Economics Spring 2006 Visiting Associate Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley Fall 2005 Visiting Associate Professor of Economics, Columbia University 2002 – 2003 Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics, MIT CURRENT PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND SERVICES 2019 – Director, Economic Growth Center Yale University 2019 – Co-editor, American Economic Review: Insights 2014 – IZA -
NAVA ASHRAF Email: [email protected]
Updated May 5, 2020 NAVA ASHRAF Email: [email protected] http://www.lse.ac.uk/economics/people/facultyPages/NavaAshraf.aspx ACADEMIC POSITIONS 2016 – present Professor, Department of Economics, London School of Economics (LSE) 2010 – 2016 Associate Professor, Harvard Business School, Negotiation, Organizations and Markets Unit 2005 – 2010 Assistant Professor, Harvard Business School, Negotiation, Organizations and Markets Unit PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS 2016 – present Research Director, Marshall Institute, London School of Economics (LSE) 2016 – present Fellow, Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) 2016 – present Co-Director, Psychology and Economics Programme, STICERD (LSE) 2016 – present Editor, Economica 2016 – present Founding Associate, Economic Research on Identity, Norms and Narrative (ERINN) 2014 – present Lead Academic, International Growth Centre program on Zambia (IGC) 2014 – present Fellow, Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD) Previously: Affiliate (2006 - 2014) 2005 – present Affiliated Professor, M.I.T. Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) 2008 – 2016 Faculty Research Fellow (LS), National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) EDUCATION 2005 Ph.D. Economics, Harvard University Dissertation: Essays at the Intersection of Development and Behavioral Economics 2003 M.A., Economics, Harvard University 1998 B.A., High Honors, Economics, International Relations, Stanford University PUBLISHED AND FORTHCOMING PAPERS Ashraf, Nava, Oriana Bandiera, Edward Davenport, and Scott Lee. 2020. “Losing Prosociality in the Quest For Talent? Sorting, Selection, And Productivity in The Delivery of Public Services." American Economic Review. Ashraf, Nava, Natalie Bau, Nathan Nunn and Alessandra Voena. 2020. “Bride Price and Female Education.” Journal of Political Economy, vol. 28, no. 2. Ashraf, Nava, Natalie Bau, Corinne Low and Kathleen McGinn. 2020. “Negotiating a Better Future: How Interpersonal Skills Facilitate Inter-Generational Investment.” Quarterly Journal of Economics, vol. -
DISSERTATION-Submission Reformatted
The Dilemma of Obedience: Persecution, Dissimulation, and Memory in Early Modern England, 1553-1603 By Robert Lee Harkins A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in History in the Graduate Division of the University of California, Berkeley Committee in charge: Professor Ethan Shagan, Chair Professor Jonathan Sheehan Professor David Bates Fall 2013 © Robert Lee Harkins 2013 All Rights Reserved 1 Abstract The Dilemma of Obedience: Persecution, Dissimulation, and Memory in Early Modern England, 1553-1603 by Robert Lee Harkins Doctor of Philosophy in History University of California, Berkeley Professor Ethan Shagan, Chair This study examines the problem of religious and political obedience in early modern England. Drawing upon extensive manuscript research, it focuses on the reign of Mary I (1553-1558), when the official return to Roman Catholicism was accompanied by the prosecution of Protestants for heresy, and the reign of Elizabeth I (1558-1603), when the state religion again shifted to Protestantism. I argue that the cognitive dissonance created by these seesaw changes of official doctrine necessitated a society in which religious mutability became standard operating procedure. For most early modern men and women it was impossible to navigate between the competing and contradictory dictates of Tudor religion and politics without conforming, dissimulating, or changing important points of conscience and belief. Although early modern theologians and polemicists widely declared religious conformists to be shameless apostates, when we examine specific cases in context it becomes apparent that most individuals found ways to positively rationalize and justify their respective actions. This fraught history continued to have long-term effects on England’s religious, political, and intellectual culture. -
Does the Classic Microfinance Model Discourage Entrepreneurship Among the Poor? Experimental Evidence from India†
American Economic Review 2013, 103(6): 2196–2226 http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/aer.103.6.2196 Does the Classic Microfinance Model Discourage Entrepreneurship Among the Poor? Experimental Evidence from India† By Erica Field, Rohini Pande, John Papp, and Natalia Rigol* Do the repayment requirements of the classic microfinance contract inhibit investment in high-return but illiquid business opportunities among the poor? Using a field experiment, we compare the classic contract which requires that repayment begin immediately after loan disbursement to a contract that includes a two-month grace period. The provision of a grace period increased short-run business investment and long-run profits but also default rates. The results, thus, indicate that debt contracts that require early repayment discourage illiquid risky investment and thereby limit the potential impact of microfinance on microenterprise growth and household poverty. JEL A21, G32, I32, L25, L26, O15, O16 ( ) Lending to entrepreneurs is a risky proposition in the best of cases. In developing countries, where borrowers often do not have collateral to seize in the event of a default, this risk is even higher. Somehow microfinance, which has expanded rap- idly from its roots in Bangladesh in the late 1970s Daley-Harris 2006 , has struc- ( ) tured debt contracts so as to limit the risk of lending to poor entrepreneurs and for that reason is considered an important tool for helping the poor.1 Early initiation of repayment is widely considered an important means by which the classic “Grameen model” limits lending risk.2 Yet there is growing evidence that microfinance, despite its success in achieving high repayment rates, has had little impact on microenter- prise growth and poverty Banerjee et al. -
Contraception As Development? New Evidence from Family Planning in Colombia
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES CONTRACEPTION AS DEVELOPMENT? NEW EVIDENCE FROM FAMILY PLANNING IN COLOMBIA Grant Miller Working Paper 11704 http://www.nber.org/papers/w11704 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 October 2005 I am indebted to David Cutler as well as David Bloom, Ken Chay, and Richard Frank for their advice and support. Hoyt Bleakley, David Canning, Erica Field, Amy Finkelstein, Sendhil Mullainathan, Joe Newhouse, Ben Olken, Cristian Pop-Eleches, Piedad Urdinola, Alan Zaslavsky, and seminar participants at Harvard, Johns Hopkins, RAND, Stanford, University of Chicago, University College London, University of Colorado at Boulder, and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill made helpful suggestions at various stages of this research. Gonzalo Echeverry, Angela Gomez, and especially Gabriel Ojeda at PROFAMILIA were generous with their time and knowledge throughout this project. Cesar Caballero and staff at the Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadistica (DANE) graciously provided the Colombian population censuses and other statistics, as facilitated by Mercedes Borrero. Dan Feenberg and Mohan Ramanujan made extra-ordinary computing resources available. The views expressed here are not necessarily the views of PROFAMILIA or its staff. Research support from the National Institute on Aging (grant number T32 AG00186) through the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) is gratefully acknowledged. All errors are my own. The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research. ©2005 by Grant Miller. All rights reserved. Short sections of text, not to exceed two paragraphs, may be quoted without explicit permission provided that full credit, including © notice, is given to the source. -
Rohini Pande
ROHINI PANDE 27 Hillhouse Avenue 203.432.3637 (w) PO Box 208269 [email protected] New Haven, CT 06520-8269 https://campuspress.yale.edu/rpande/ EDUCATION 1999 Ph.D., Economics, London School of Economics 1995 M.Sc. in Economics, London School of Economics (Distinction) 1994 MA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, Oxford University 1992 BA (Hons.) in Economics, St. Stephens College, Delhi University PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE ACADEMIC POSITIONS 2019 - Henry J. Heinz II Professor of Economics, Yale University 2018 – 2019 Rafik Hariri Professor of International Political Economy, Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University 2006 – 2017 Mohammed Kamal Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University 2005 – 2006 Associate Professor of Economics, Yale University 2003 – 2005 Assistant Professor of Economics, Yale University 1999 – 2003 Assistant Professor of Economics, Columbia University VISITING POSITIONS April 2018 Ta-Chung Liu Distinguished Visitor at Becker Friedman Institute, UChicago Spring 2017 Visiting Professor of Economics, University of Pompeu Fabra and Stanford Fall 2010 Visiting Professor of Economics, London School of Economics Spring 2006 Visiting Associate Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley Fall 2005 Visiting Associate Professor of Economics, Columbia University 2002 – 2003 Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics, MIT CURRENT PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND SERVICES 2019 - Director, Economic Growth Center Yale University 2019 - Co-editor, American Economic Review: Insights 2014 – -
English Monks Suppression of the Monasteries
ENGLISH MONKS and the SUPPRESSION OF THE MONASTERIES ENGLISH MONKS and the SUPPRESSION OF THE MONASTERIES by GEOFFREY BAS KER VILLE M.A. (I) JONA THAN CAPE THIRTY BEDFORD SQUARE LONDON FIRST PUBLISHED I937 JONATHAN CAPE LTD. JO BEDFORD SQUARE, LONDON AND 91 WELLINGTON STREET WEST, TORONTO PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN IN THE CITY OF OXFORD AT THE ALDEN PRESS PAPER MADE BY JOHN DICKINSON & CO. LTD. BOUND BY A. W. BAIN & CO. LTD. CONTENTS PREFACE 7 INTRODUCTION 9 I MONASTIC DUTIES AND ACTIVITIES I 9 II LAY INTERFERENCE IN MONASTIC AFFAIRS 45 III ECCLESIASTICAL INTERFERENCE IN MONASTIC AFFAIRS 72 IV PRECEDENTS FOR SUPPRESSION I 308- I 534 96 V THE ROYAL VISITATION OF THE MONASTERIES 1535 120 VI SUPPRESSION OF THE SMALLER MONASTERIES AND THE PILGRIMAGE OF GRACE 1536-1537 144 VII FROM THE PILGRIMAGE OF GRACE TO THE FINAL SUPPRESSION 153 7- I 540 169 VIII NUNS 205 IX THE FRIARS 2 2 7 X THE FATE OF THE DISPOSSESSED RELIGIOUS 246 EPILOGUE 273 APPENDIX 293 INDEX 301 5 PREFACE THE four hundredth anniversary of the suppression of the English monasteries would seem a fit occasion on which to attempt a summary of the latest views on a thorny subject. This book cannot be expected to please everybody, and it makes no attempt to conciliate those who prefer sentiment to truth, or who allow their reading of historical events to be distorted by present-day controversies, whether ecclesiastical or political. In that respect it tries to live up to the dictum of Samuel Butler that 'he excels most who hits the golden mean most exactly in the middle'. -
Foxe's Constantine-FINAL3.Pages
Constantine in Scriptural Mode: John Foxe’s “Magisterial” Revisions to Acts and Monuments’ Second Edition (1570) by Wesley Miles Goudy A Thesis submitted to the Faculty of Wycliffe College and Graduate Centre for Theological Studies of the Toronto School of Theology. In partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Theology awarded by Wycliffe College and the University of Toronto. © Copyright by Wesley Miles Goudy 2018 Constantine in Scriptural Mode: John Foxe’s “Godly” Magisterial Revisions to Acts and Monuments Second Edition (1570) Wesley Miles Goudy Doctor of Theology Wycliffe College and the University of Toronto 2018 Abstract This project explores a new vision of the Protestant magistrate as represented in the alterations which John Foxe made to his Ecclesiastical History, in Acts and Monuments’ second edition (1570), a highly influential and controversial work which has been credited with shaping the course of English historiography from the Reformation to the Victorian era. The work has also been read in abridged form under the title Foxe’s Book of Martyrs. Foxe made incremental revisions to the work, which began as a 1554 Latin martyrology and ended in a fourth 1583 revision to this English-language ecclesiastical history, still known by the title Acts and Monuments. Yet relatively little scholarship has been devoted to explicating the nature and motivation for Foxe’s revisions, beyond his effort to provide literary and historical support for the English Reformation in the face of Roman Catholic opposition. The most significant revisions appear between the first and second editions of Acts and ii Monuments (1563, 1570), resulting in a textual expansion of some 500 pages. -
Report on the Inquiry Into the Implications of Removing Refundable Franking Credits
The Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia Report on the inquiry into the implications of removing refundable franking credits House of Representatives Standing Committee on Economics April 2019 Canberra © Commonwealth of Australia 2019 ISBN 978-1-76092-005-0 (Printed version) ISBN 978-1-76092-006-7 (HTML version) This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial- NoDerivs 3.0 Australia License. The details of this licence are available on the Creative Commons website: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/au/. Foreword On 19 September 2018, the Treasurer, the Hon Josh Frydenberg, MP, referred to the committee an inquiry into the removal of refundable franking credits. The Treasurer asked the committee to inquire into and report on the implications of removing refundable franking credits and, in particular, the stress and complexity it will cause for Australians, including older Australians who will be impacted in their retirement. The public response to the inquiry has been extraordinary. The committee held a series of 19 public hearings across the country to allow Australians to have their say in light of a policy proposed to be introduced on 1 July 2019. These hearings were very well attended – often exceeding 300 people. A total of 1777 submissions were published and many more documents were received that could not be published by the time the committee reported. While the participation in the inquiry was high, worryingly the evidence suggests that many people at risk of being impacted from a policy change are unaware of the proposal that could result in them losing a third of their income. -
Erica M. Field ______
ERICA M. FIELD _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Department of Economics Phone (919) 660-1857 Duke University Fax (919) 684-8974 319 Social Sciences Bldg [email protected] Durham, NC 27708-0097 http://sites.duke.edu/ericafield/ ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2015 – Professor of Economics and Global Health, Duke University 2011 – 2015 Associate Professor of Economics and Global Health, Duke University 2010 – 2011 John L. Loeb Associate Professor of Social Science (Economics), Harvard University 2005 – 2009 Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Harvard University 2009 – 2010 National Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University 2006 – 2007 Visiting Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ 2006 – 2007 Visiting Faculty, Center for Health and Wellbeing, Princeton University 2003 – 2004 Post-doctoral Research Fellow, RWJ Scholars in Health Policy Research, Harvard FIELDS OF INTEREST: Development Economics, Economic Demography, Health PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS Co-director, DevLab@Duke Faculty Research Fellow (Development), National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Fellow, Bureau for Research in Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD) Member, Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) EDUCATION 2003 Ph.D, MA Department of Economics, Princeton University 1996