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24 Were Marvell's Popular Prose Satires, the Rehearsal
24 SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY NEWS were Marvell’s popular prose satires, The Rehearsal Transpros’d and Mr. Smirke (subjects of chapters 10-11), which continued the fight for re- ligious toleration. Probably while under the patronage of Shaftesbury, Marvell composed his damning Account of the Growth of Popery and Arbitrary Government (subject of chapter 12), which alleged a plot to bring French-style Catholic absolutism to England, thereby gutting its mixed monarchy. Marvell did not live to see something very like this nightmare emerge in 1678 as a false scare about a Popish Plot against Charles II. However, the Exclusion Crisis that followed (ca. 1678-1681) saw not only the birth of political parties but the canon- ization of Marvell as Whig patriot—a label that would stick for much of the next century and beyond (chapter 13). The subtitle of Pierre Legouis’ 1928 biography of Marvell in French (shortened, updated, and translated in 1965) had added the terms “Poet” and “Puritan” to “Patriot”: André Marvell: Poète, Puritain, Patriote. But Smith chooses “The Chameleon” as his subtitle in order to emphasize the fluid and elusive nature of Marvell’s political, religious, and literary identities, agreeing with von Maltzahn that Marvell had become a religious free-thinker by the time of his death in 1678, flirting with ideas like Socinianism that had interested his reverend father. In sum, Andrew Marvell: The Chameleon, with its sensitive readings of Marvell’s life, lines, and times, is now the standard biography. Richmond Barbour. The Third Voyage Journals: Writing and Performance in the London East India Company, 1607-10. -
Africa Without Europeans
18 AFRICA WITHOUT EUROPEANS Chris Alden To talk about the relationship between Asia, a land of venerated civi- lizations, and Africa, the continent that gave birth to mankind itself, is to embark on a terrain fraught with unsubstantiated superlatives and systemic misrepresentation, which challenges some of our most cherished perceptions of Africa’s international relations. First, we have to admit that a focus on ‘Asian relations with Africa’ that omits the Indian subcontinent necessarily understates the most significant and sustained interaction between Asia and Africa, which transcends all the periods of contact. Since the migration of merchants, set- tlers and slave traders from the Indian land mass began in earnest in the 10th century, the steady growth and exchange of relations has served to bind the two regions together. In all the serious indicators of cultural penetration—whether language, religion or cuisine—the impact of Indian civilization can be read in the daily lives of ordinary Africans. The cultures of the Far East have had no equivalent im- print upon African society, nor Africa upon them. Secondly, in order to understand the ties between Africa and Asia, and in particular Africa’s ties with an emerging China, we need to resurrect and reori- ent our thinking about the past if we are to come to terms with the meaning and impact that this relationship may hold for the future. 349 china returns to africa It is the very nature of ‘otherness’ in the experience of Chinese contact with Africa (‘two unlikely regions’ in Philip -
The Long-Term Effect of Demographic Shocks on the Evolution of Gender
The Long-Term Effect of Demographic Shocks on the Evolution of Gender Roles: Evidence from the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade∗ Edoardo Teso y July 2014 Abstract I study the long-run effect of the trans-Atlantic slave trade on the evolution of gender norms. Since a majority of men were exported during the trans-Atlantic slave trade, skewed sex ratios emerged in the population of the African regions more severely affected. Historical accounts show that in these regions the shortage of men pushed women into the labor force and led women into taking up new areas of work. I hypothesize that this demographic shock, by altering the division of labor in society, affected cultural norms about the role of women, with long-run effects on female labor force participation. I provide evidence consistent with this hypothesis by documenting a long-run impact of this historical shock on female labor force participation, with a corresponding effect on general attitudes about gender roles. I show that women belonging to ethnic groups that were more severely affected by the trans-Atlantic slave trade are today more likely to be in the labor force, and that individuals belonging to these groups are characterized by more equal gender-role attitudes. Exploiting within-region and within-village variation, I provide evidence that culture continues to play a role even after controlling for any long-run impact of the slave trade on the external environment, including current labor market opportunities. 1 Introduction A recent, growing literature links the degree of women’s participation in the labor force to the prevailing cultural beliefs about the appropriate role of women in society (Fernandez 2007, Fernandez and Fogli, 2009, Alesina, Giuliano, and Nunn, 2013). -
Sailors' Scurvy Before and After James Lind – a Reassessment
Historical Perspective Sailors' scurvy before and after James Lind–areassessment Jeremy Hugh Baron Scurvy is a thousand-year-old stereotypical disease characterized by apathy, weakness, easy bruising with tiny or large skin hemorrhages, friable bleeding gums, and swollen legs. Untreated patients may die. In the last five centuries sailors and some ships' doctors used oranges and lemons to cure and prevent scurvy, yet university-trained European physicians with no experience of either the disease or its cure by citrus fruits persisted in reviews of the extensive but conflicting literature. In the 20th century scurvy was shown to be due to a deficiency of the essential food factor ascorbic acid. This vitamin C was synthesized, and in adequate quantities it completely prevents and completely cures the disease, which is now rare. The protagonist of this medical history was James Lind. His report of a prospective controlled therapeutic trial in 1747 preceded by a half-century the British Navy's prevention and cure of scurvy by citrus fruits. After lime-juice was unwittingly substituted for lemon juice in about 1860, the disease returned, especially among sailors on polar explorations. In recent decades revisionist historians have challenged normative accounts, including that of scurvy, and the historicity of Lind's trial. It is therefore timely to reassess systematically the strengths and weaknesses of the canonical saga.nure_205 315..332 © 2009 International Life Sciences Institute INTRODUCTION patients do not appear on the ship’s sick list, his choice of remedies was improper, and his inspissated juice was Long intercontinental voyages began in the late 16th useless.“Scurvy” was dismissed as a catch-all term, and its century and were associated with scurvy that seamen dis- morbidity and mortality were said to have been exagger- covered could be cured and prevented by oranges and ated. -
Recreating the Original IPA
Recreating the Original IPA Travis Rupp Innovation and Wood Cellar Manager Beer Archaeologist Instructor of Classics, Art History, and Anthropology NESTOR’S CUP 1350 BCE RAGNARSDRÁPA 1800 BCE 900-1000 CE 1100-1400 CE Benedictus Nursia 825 CE (The Dead Sea Scrolls) רבְּאֵ שֶׁבַ ע Beersheba Image: “The Torah Prescripts Scroll” (Miqsat Ma`ase ha-Torah), parchment, late 1st cent. BCE – early 1sr cent. CE George Washington Porter Travis Rupp Travis Rupp 1752 India Pale Ale 1599 Left: Dutch Jacob Cornelius van Neck Right: English James Lancaster VI 1601 – English Involvement East Indiamen under full sail in the China Sea Oil painting by William John Huggins c. 1825 – National Maritime Musuem in Greenwich, UK Dutch East India Trading Company March 20, 1602 The voyage's return in 1599, by Andries van Eertvelt Governor and Company of Merchants of London Trading into the East Indies a.k.a. The East India Trading Co Dec. 31, 1600 • Queen Elizabeth I • 200 English merchants granted trade in the East Indies • Lancaster and 4 ships to China – 1601 • 500 tons of pepper!! Red Dragon (a.k.a. Dragon) • 38-gun ship, 600 tons Portrait of James Lancaster with the Red Dragon • 5 Voyages • Hamlet 1607 (Sierra Leone) 1614 painting by Hendrick Cornelisz Vroom showing English, Dutch and Spanish ships in a bay in the East Indies October 1619 – Red Dragon is captured or sunk by the Dutch 1757 – Ale export boomNear when monopoly East India over Trading East Co.India took trade control by 1793 of the Indian subcontinent Imperial Beer Trade What were the Brits looking to gain? SPICES!!! peppercorns cloves cinnamon nutmeg benjamin (frankincense) saltpetre textiles opium And of course…TEA! Unloading tea ships in the East India docks, from the Illustrated London News, 26 October 1867. -
Middleton: a Paradise Lost in Search of a Garden Before the Garden
Middleton: A Paradise Lost In search of a garden before the Garden Report of a project conducted in 2011 Edited by Professor David Austin Middleton : A Paradise Lost: In search of a garden before the Garden: Middleton Hall Austin et al 2011 The National Botanic Garden of Wales would like to record its gratitude and acknowledgement of funding for this project from the Heritage Lottery Fund without which the work would not have been possible. Title Page Illustrations: Reproduction of these three images is courtesy of the Roderic Bowen Library and Archives, University of Wales Trinity Saint David. The books from which they are taken were given to the university in the decades after its foundation in 1822 by Thomas Phillips who worked for the East India Company as a surgeon in India from 1780 to 1817. This is another of those happy pieces of serendipitous connection which have made this project so marvellous. Top: Catalogue no: PHI 00391. Morandi, Joannes Baptista, (fl. 1744). Historia botanica practica, seu, Plantarum, quae ad usum medicinae pertinent, nomenclatura, descriptio, et virtutes, cum ab antiquis, tum a recentibus celebrium auctorum scriptis desumptae : opus equitis Joannis Baptistae Morandi Mediolanensis, botanici, galenici, pictoris. Mediolani: Apud Joseph Galeatium, 1761. First ed. published: Mediolani : Ex typographia Petri Francisci Malatestae, 1744. Engraved half title: Historia botanico-practica stirpium, atque herbarum, quae ad usum medicinae pertinent , inventor, delineator, et sculptor. Book-plate: Ex libris Starrensteid. Label mounted on t.p.: Doctor Carl Alexand. v. Palkovics, Ord. Physicus zu Gran. Presented by Thomas Phillips, 1840. Bottom Left: Catalogue no: PHI 00514: Jacquin, Nikolaus Joseph, Freiherr von, (1727-1817). -
The Regimental Records of the British Army
^M}' ^: REGIMENTAL RECORDS .1. S. FARMER Presented to the UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO LIBRARY by the ONTARIO LEGISLATIVE LIBRARY 1980 THE REGIMENTAL RECORDS OF THE BRITISH ARMY. Publisher's Announcement. British Regiments in War and Peace. T. THE RIFLE BRIGADE. By Walter Wood. Crown 8vo., cloth, 3^. 6cl. II. THE NORTHUMBERLAND FUSILIERS. By Walter Wood. Crown 8vo., cloth, y. (>d. The Campaign of 181 5. By W. O'Connor Morris. With Maps. Demy 8vo., cloth, \2s. 6d. net. The Sword and the Centuries ; or, Old Sword Days and Old Sword Ways. By Captain IIuttox. F.S.A. Illustrated. Demy 8vo., cloth. Modern Weapons and Modern War. By I. S. Block. With an Introduction by W. T. Stead. Illustrated. Crown 8vo., cloth, 6s. (Second Edition.) The Story of Baden = PowelI. By Harold Begbie. Illustrated. Crown 8vo., cloth, 3.f. 6d. (Third Edition.) Sir George White, V.C. By Thomas F. G. Coates. Illustrated. Crown 8vo., cloth, y. 6d. Queen or President? An Indictment of Paul Kruger. By S. M. Gluckstein. With Portrait. Crown 8vo., cloth 2S. 6d. Majuba: The Story of the Boer War of 1881. By Hamish Hendry. Illustrated. Crown 8vo., cloth, zs. The New Battle of Dorking. By ****. Crown 8vo., paper covers, is. ; cloth, is. 6d. (Second Edition.) London : GRANT RICHARDS, 9, Henrietta Street, W.C. : REGIMENTAL RECORDS 5H OF THE BRITISH ARMY k^'. H 1bi6torical IRc^unic Cbronologicall^ Hvrangcb OF TITLES, CAMPAIGNS, HONOURS, UNIFORMS, FACINGS, BADGES, NICKNAMES, ETC. JOHN S. FARMER./V LONDON GRANT RICHARDS, 9, HENRIETTA STREET. 1901. CONTENTS. PAGE I. THE CAVALRY I II. THE ROYAL ARTILLERY 6i III. -
Absolutism, Nationhood, Imperialism, Protestantism, Patriotism
2021-4130-AJHA – 23 FEB 2021 1 Tudor Coins as Bearers of Ideology of a Young Nation State: 2 Absolutism, Nationhood, Imperialism, Protestantism, 3 Patriotism 4 5 Sixteenth century England saw the conception and dissemination of a new 6 ideology aimed at national consolidation and identity formation. Elaborated 7 in philosophical and theological writings, Parliamentary acts and 8 ordinances, underpinned by contemporary literature and art, the new 9 ideology had one more potent but often overlooked vehicle of propagation – 10 the Tudor money, a unique semiotic system of signs encoding in its 11 iconography and inscriptions the abstract principles of the nascent ideology. 12 The article argues for the significance of the political dimension of the 13 coinage in question and suggests possible ideological readings of coins' 14 visual design and their textual component. We also hypothesize that coin 15 symbolism, literary texts professing national values and ideals, and visual 16 art form distinct but inter-complementary domains (numismatics, pictorial 17 art, and poetics) and function as potent tools of propaganda. 18 19 Keywords: Tudor coins, semiotics, ideology, iconography, divine right, 20 indoctrination. 21 22 23 Introduction 24 25 The period with which this paper is concerned is the Tudor age (1485 – 26 1603), which spans a century, is represented by five crowned monarchs and is 27 marked by dramatic changes in all spheres of economic, political, religious, 28 and cultural life. According to historical chronology, the 16th century marks -
Bibliography Manuscript and Archival Sources Bristol Record Office Parish
Bibliography Manuscript and archival sources Bristol Record Office Parish Registers FCP/AS/R/1 (All Saints) FCP/Xch/R/1 (Christ Church) FCP/St.Aug/R/1 (St Augustine the Less) FCP/St. E/R/1 (St Ewen) FCP/St.J/R/1 (St James) FCP/St.JB/R/1 (St John the Baptist) FCP/St. MR/R/1 (St Mary Redcliffe) FCP/St.N/R/1 (St. Nicholas) FCP/St.P+J/R/1 (St Philip and St Jacob) FCP/St.S/R/1 (St Stephen) FCP/St.T/R/1 (St Thomas) FCP/St.W/R/1 (St Werburgh) FCP/Tem/R/1 (Temple) FCP/Dy/R/1 (Dyrham) Wills and Inventories FCI/1620-1632/19 ((Probate Inventory of Cattelena of Almondsbury, 24 May 1625) EP/J/4/6 (Will of Richard Ford of Almondsbury 25 April 1639) Bromley Historic Collections P92/1/1 (St. Nicholas, Chislehurst) Cambridge University Library Additional Manuscripts, 7226-7306 (G.R.G. Conway Collection, Mexican Inquisition) Canterbury Cathedral Archives Parish Registers U3/26/1/1 (St. James’s, Dover) U3-30 (St. Mary’s, Dover) U85/38/14 (Sir Anthony Throckmorton’s Diary, 1578-1596, 1609-1613) DCb-L/R/vol 11, f. 223v (Register of General Licences, 1625–1629) DCb/L/R/13 (Petition of Henry Jenken, 27 June 1635) DCb/BT/1/94 (Baptism of an ‘Indian manchild’, St. Mary’s Fordwich, 28 June 1635) Cornwall Record Office, Truro AP/L/253(John Lankford’s will, 1624) Parish Registers FP133/1/1(Madron) FP99/1/1 (St Keverne) FP236/1/1 (St. -
Garenfestcom 996390345.Pdf
1 About This Teachers Guide This Teachers Guide accompanies the Georgia Renaissance Festival’s annual Field Trip Day and is designed as a resource for teachers to enhance their students’ experience. Sections in this guide are followed by information on digital and print resources and/or suggested student activities. Some activities are classroom based; others are recommended activities for students during their field trip visit. The addenda (pages 51-82) offers additional suggestions for pre and post field trip activities, educational worksheets, and a summary of helpful resources for teachers. Field Trip Day offers students the opportunity to do more than read about history - it gives them a chance to experience it firsthand. Students step back in time and walk the streets of our recreated authentic 16th century English village of Newcastle, encounter major historic figures – Henry VIII, Leonardo da Vinci, William Shakespeare - and townspeople, and learn how the Renaissance changed global politics, culture, science, and everyday life. Interactive workshops, led by trained performer educators, teach students about the history and culture of the 15th and 16th Centuries. Performances and other hands-on learning opportunities introduce students to the theater, music, art, and entertainment of the period. Skilled artists demonstrate and discuss Renaissance trades and crafts: glassblowing, pottery, blacksmithing, felting, spinning and weaving. Field Trip Day and the suggested activities in this education guide are designed to be cross-curricular, for example supporting both History/Social Studies and English Language Arts/Literacy units, Art and Science. A detailed list of supported educational standards by grade and subject is on our main education page: https://www.garenfest.com/student-day-information. -
{PDF} the Honourable Company
THE HONOURABLE COMPANY: HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH EAST INDIA COMPANY PDF, EPUB, EBOOK John Keay | 496 pages | 11 Oct 1993 | HarperCollins Publishers | 9780006380726 | English | London, United Kingdom The Honourable Company: History of the English East India Company PDF Book Shelfmark: Foster Williams, Roger Achievement of the Company, about Manchester University Press. Seems like all of the events very much could have gone the other way. The company achieved a major victory over the Portuguese in the Battle of Swally in , at Suvali in Surat. Jul 15, Nate Rabe rated it really liked it Shelves: history , india , pakistan , asia. Professor Richard B. Who knew what effect the naturalization elsewhere of a misappropriated seedling might have on the Bandanese monopoly? Similarly, the Earl of Mornington , an East India Company packet ship of only six guns, also sailed under a letter of marque. Historical Dictionary of the British Empire. Fordham University. There were also allowances for outfit and for a small quantity of private trade goods. Work began in on the first railway, the Great Indian Peninsula Railway , running for 21 miles He had, however, done nothing to persuade merchants and investors that expeditions in search of eastern trade were worthwhile. Of these, were dead by the time they reached the Cape. I kept calculating how many pages were left, but I did appreciate my burgeoning understanding of the times and places. If the idea was approved, a target figure was set and a subscription book was opened. Even supposing it had been self-evident which party it was politic to support he had neither the authority nor the ships to engage in hostilities. -
UC Riverside UC Riverside Electronic Theses and Dissertations
UC Riverside UC Riverside Electronic Theses and Dissertations Title “The Gulfe of Persia devours all”: English Merchants in Safavīd Persia, 1616-1650 Permalink https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3bb5t80x Author Razzari, Daniel Publication Date 2016 Peer reviewed|Thesis/dissertation eScholarship.org Powered by the California Digital Library University of California UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA RIVERSIDE “The Gulfe of Persia devours all”: English Merchants in Safavīd Persia, 1616-1650 A Dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in History by Daniel Ben Razzari August 2016 Dissertation Committee: Dr. Thomas Cogswell, Chairperson Dr. Fariba Zarinebaf Dr. Jonathan Eacott Copyright by Daniel Ben Razzari 2016 The Dissertation of Daniel Ben Razzari is approved: Committee Chairperson University of California, Riverside ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The journey through graduate school and the completion of this present work was long and arduous. Along the way, I have accumulated several academic debts, and it is with great pleasure that I acknowledge the people who have made it possible. Without their support, this work would never have come to fruition and the story of the Englishmen who lived in Persia left untold. First and foremost, this dissertation could never have been written without Dr. Thomas Cogswell, who I am forever indebted to for his tremendous support for my endeavor into Early Modern English history. It was through his guidance that I came to work on this adventurous, yet wildly entertaining group of Englishmen. I can only express my gratitude, but the words written here pale in comparison to the contribution he made to the pages that follow.