Princelie Majestie

Author : Andrea Thomas
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2005-08-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857907783

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Princelie Majestie by Andrea Thomas Pdf

The lifestyle of a Renaissance prince and his court was a work of art in itself: a dazzling spectacle which propagated the power, dignity and fame of the monarch. The domestic routine of the royal household with its palatial surroundings, restless itinerary and occasional public pageants, provided the framework for cultural activity in its widest possible sense. Fine art, architecture, scholarship, literature, music and piety jostled for attention alongside hunting, feasting, jousting, politics, diplomacy and war. Emerging defiantly from a long and turbulent minority, the adult James V managed to create for Scotland an exuberant and cosmopolitan court, which imitated in miniature those of France, England and the Netherlands, and which carried important political messages. His ambitious programme of royal patronage combined humanist scholarship, neo-classical and imperial imagery, the cult of chivalry and medieval traditions in a blend which sought to galvanise Scottish national identity and enhance the status of the House of Stewart. For many years the reputation of James V has been overshadowed by the tragic glamour of his father, James IV, killed at Flodden, and his daughter, Mary, Queen of Scots. Princelie Majestie reveals that he was an energetic and innovative patron, who in a brief fourteen years created a court culture of remarkable quality and diversity. Princelie Majestie was originally published by Tuckwell Press.

Author : Andrea Thomas
Publisher : John Donald
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2003-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1862321205

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Princelie Majestie by Andrea Thomas Pdf

The lifestyle of a Renaissance prince and his court was a work of art in itself: a dazzling spectacle which propogated the power, dignity and fame of the monarch. The domestic routine of the royal household with its palatial surroundings, restless itinerary and occasional public pageants, provided the framework for cultural activity in its widest sense. Fine art, architecture, scholarship, literature, music and piety jostled for attention alongside hunting, feasting, jousting, politics, diplomacy and war.

Author : Wikipedia contributors
Publisher : e-artnow sro
Page : 2501 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2024-04-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Focus On: 100 Most Popular Knights of the Garter by Wikipedia contributors Pdf

Author : Steve Murdoch
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789004185685

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The Terror of the Seas? by Steve Murdoch Pdf

This book places early modern Scottish maritime warfare in its European context. Its formidably broad range of sources sheds light on many previously little known, or unknown, aspects of naval history. It also provides many valuable new perspectives on the importance of the sea to the Scots, and of the Scots to the naval history of Great Britain.

Author : Bess Rhodes
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004347991

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Riches and Reform by Bess Rhodes Pdf

In Riches and Reform Bess Rhodes explores the ruinous financial consequences of the Reformation in Scotland’s ecclesiastical capital of St Andrews, tracing how the religious changes of the sixteenth century triggered economic crisis and eventual urban decline.

Author : J.R. Mulryne,Maria Ines Aliverti,Anna Maria Testaverde
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317168904

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Ceremonial Entries in Early Modern Europe by J.R. Mulryne,Maria Ines Aliverti,Anna Maria Testaverde Pdf

The fourteen essays that comprise this volume concentrate on festival iconography, the visual and written languages, including ephemeral and permanent structures, costume, dramatic performance, inscriptions and published festival books that ’voiced’ the social, political and cultural messages incorporated in processional entries in the countries of early modern Europe. The volume also includes a transcript of the newly-discovered Register of Lionardo di Zanobi Bartholini, a Florentine merchant, which sets out in detail the expenses for each worker for the possesso (or Entry) of Pope Leo X to Rome in April 1513.

Author : Frances Timbers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317036524

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'The Damned Fraternitie': Constructing Gypsy Identity in Early Modern England, 1500–1700 by Frances Timbers Pdf

'The Damned Fraternitie': Constructing Gypsy Identity in Early Modern England, 1500–1700 examines the construction of gypsy identity in England between the early sixteenth century and the end of the seventeenth century. Drawing upon previous historiography, a wealth of printed primary sources (including government documents, pamphlets, rogue literature, and plays), and archival material (quarter sessions and assize cases, parish records and constables's accounts), the book argues that the construction of gypsy identity was part of a wider discourse concerning the increasing vagabond population, and was further informed by the religious reformations and political insecurities of the time. The developing narrative of a fraternity of dangerous vagrants resulted in the gypsy population being designated as a special category of rogues and vagabonds by both the state and popular culture. The alleged Egyptian origin of the group and the practice of fortune-telling by palmistry contributed elements of the exotic, which contributed to the concept of the mysterious alien. However, as this book reveals, a close examination of the first gypsies that are known by name shows that they were more likely Scottish and English vagrants, employing the ambiguous and mysterious reputation of the newly emerging category of gypsy. This challenges the theory that sixteenth-century gypsies were migrants from India and/or early predecessors to the later Roma population, as proposed by nineteenth-century gypsiologists. The book argues that the fluid identity of gypsies, whose origins and ethnicity were (and still are) ambiguous, allowed for the group to become a prime candidate for the 'other', thus a useful tool for reinforcing the parameters of orthodox social behaviour.

Author : T. M. Devine,Jenny Wormald
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191624322

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The Oxford Handbook of Modern Scottish History by T. M. Devine,Jenny Wormald Pdf

Over the last three decades major advances in research and scholarship have transformed understanding of the Scottish past. In this landmark study some of the most eminent writers on the subject, together with emerging new talents, have combined to produce a large-scale volume which reconsiders in fresh and illuminating ways the classic themes of the nation's history since the sixteenth century as well as a number of new topics which are only now receiving detailed attention. Such major themes as the Reformation, the Union of 1707, the Scottish Enlightenment, clearances, industrialisation, empire, emigration, and the Great War are approached from novel and fascinating perspectives, but so too are such issues as the Scottish environment, myth, family, criminality, the literary tradition, and Scotland's contemporary history. All chapters contain expert syntheses of current knowledge, but their authors also stand back and reflect critically on the questions which still remain unanswered, the issues which generate dispute and controversy, and sketch out where appropriate the agenda for future research. The Handbook also places the Scottish experience firmly into an international historical perspective with a considerable focus on the age-old emigration of the Scottish people, the impact of successive waves of immigrants to Scotland, and the nation's key role within the British Empire. The overall result is a vibrant and stimulating review of modern Scottish history: essential reading for students and scholars alike.

Author : Carissa M. Harris
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501730412

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Obscene Pedagogies by Carissa M. Harris Pdf

As anyone who has read Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales knows, Middle English literature is rife with sexually explicit language and situations. Less canonical works can be even more brazen in describing illicit acts of sexual activity and sexual violence. Such scenes and language were not, however, included exclusively for titillation. In Obscene Pedagogies, Carissa M. Harris argues instead for obscenity’s usefulness in sexual education. She investigates the relationship between obscenity, gender, and pedagogy in Middle English and Middle Scots literary texts from 1300 to 1580 to show how sexually explicit and defiantly vulgar speech taught readers and listeners about sexual behavior and consent. Through innovative close readings of literary texts including erotic lyrics, single-woman’s songs, debate poems between men and women, Scottish insult poetry battles, and The Canterbury Tales, Harris demonstrates how through its transgressive charge and galvanizing shock value, obscenity taught audiences about gender, sex, pleasure, and power in ways both positive and harmful. She focuses in particular on understudied female-voiced lyrics and gendered debate poems, many of which have their origin in oral culture, and includes teaching-ready editions of fourteen largely unknown anonymous lyrics in women’s voices. Harris’s own voice, proudly witty and sharply polemical, inspires the reader to address these medieval texts with an eye on contemporary issues of gender, violence, and misogyny.

Author : Sarah Carpenter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-14
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781000088823

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Early Performance: Courts and Audiences by Sarah Carpenter Pdf

These essays of Sarah Carpenter have been selected to reflect her career’s close focus on the relationship of performance and audience. They are drawn from the last 25 years of her writing, and this has enabled the editors to organise them not chronologically but rather to develop her central theme through a range of genres, including morality plays, the interlude, court entertainments, international political spectacle, and the public ‘performances’ of natural and maintained fools. As a scholar who also has experience of acting and of production, Carpenter is particularly sensitive to the implications of location for creating meaning and generating audience reaction. The essays are focused on a relatively short time-span of 120 years, from the late fifteenth to the turn of the seventeenth century, and thus nuance a period traditionally divided between the late medieval and the early-modern, and between Catholicism and Protestantism. Carpenter shows how the dynamics of theatrical engagement in which the roles of audience and performer are frequently mixed or even reversed offer a more creative route to understanding how the individual and society respond to change. (CS1090)

Author : Robert Keith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1850
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10280488

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History of the affairs of church and state in Scotland, from the beginning of the reformation to the year 1568 by Robert Keith Pdf

Author : Robert Keith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1850
Category : Scotland
ISBN : HARVARD:32044094435351

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History of the Affairs of Church and State in Scotland by Robert Keith Pdf

Author : Robert episcop Keith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1850
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z203968608

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History of the Affairs of Church and State in Scotland, from the Beginning of the Reformation to the Year 1568 ... with Biographical Sketch, Notes, and Index, by the Editor ; in Three Volumes by Robert episcop Keith Pdf

Author : William Hepburn
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783276905

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The Household and Court of James IV of Scotland, 1488-1513 by William Hepburn Pdf

Offers a fresh perspective on the role of the court in late medieval Scotland, framing it within the wider field of court studies, highlighting its centrality to the effective government for which James IV is renowned. James IV is regarded by many historians as the most charismatic and politically successful of Scotland's rulers, with his royal court, and the institution of the royal household which underpinned it, at the heart of his reign. This book, the first comprehensive examination of the subject, takes the structures and personnel of the household - from councillors to stable-hands - as the foundation for its study of the court and its role. Beginning by looking at the distinction between household and court and the structures imposed by the household on the court, Hepburn utilises this framework to explore the lives of the people moving within it, both in terms of their duties as royal servants and their broader social and political worlds. The book argues that these people were both audience and performer in the court, receiving and producing messages about the king, royal government and the status of groups and individuals. Association with the household also became a feature of life for people away from the court, through the household-related terms in which they were described and through the lands they held. Overall, it highlights the central role of the court in the effective conduct of royal government for which James IV is renowned.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2008-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047433736

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Sixteenth-Century Scotland by Anonim Pdf

This is a collection of essays on the political, cultural and religious history of Scotland in the era of the Renaissance and Reformation.