The Elizabethan Secretariat And The Signet Office

Author : Angela Andreani
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351764254

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The Elizabethan Secretariat and the Signet Office by Angela Andreani Pdf

This book investigates the work of the Elizabethan secretariat during the fascinating decade of the 1590s, when, after the death of Francis Walsingham, the place of principal secretary remained vacant for six years. Through original sources in the collections of the State Papers and Cecil Papers, this study reconstructs the activities of the clerks and secretaries who worked in close contact with the Queen at court. An estimated fifty people, many unidentified, saw to every minute detail of the production of official documents and letters in an array of offices, rooms and locations within and outside the court. The book introduces the staff of the Elizabethan writing offices as a community of shared knowledge with a privileged and constant access to papers of state, working behind the scenes of court display and high politics. While the production of the state papers is explored as a means to re-construct the functioning of the inner mechanisms of state, it also provides a lens through which to access the knowledge of the administration in a pre-bureaucratic age.

Author : Angela Andreani
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351764247

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The Elizabethan Secretariat and the Signet Office by Angela Andreani Pdf

This book investigates the work of the Elizabethan secretariat during the fascinating decade of the 1590s, when, after the death of Francis Walsingham, the place of principal secretary remained vacant for six years. Through original sources in the collections of the State Papers and Cecil Papers, this study reconstructs the activities of the clerks and secretaries who worked in close contact with the Queen at court. An estimated fifty people, many unidentified, saw to every minute detail of the production of official documents and letters in an array of offices, rooms and locations within and outside the court. The book introduces the staff of the Elizabethan writing offices as a community of shared knowledge with a privileged and constant access to papers of state, working behind the scenes of court display and high politics. While the production of the state papers is explored as a means to re-construct the functioning of the inner mechanisms of state, it also provides a lens through which to access the knowledge of the administration in a pre-bureaucratic age.

Author : J. Otway-Ruthven
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1939-01-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0521058694

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The King's Secretary and the Signet Office in the XV Century by J. Otway-Ruthven Pdf

Miss Otway-Ruthven examines the history of the office of the King's Secretary from 1377, the first appearance of a King's Secretary, to 1509, demonstrating its rise from the comparative unimportance of a confidential clerkship to a position worthy of the attention of a bishop and a fitting instrument of Tudor Government.

Author : Angela Andreani
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429536663

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Meredith Hanmer and the Elizabethan Church by Angela Andreani Pdf

This is the first book-length study of the fascinating life of the clergyman and scholar of Welsh descent Meredith Hanmer (c.1545–1604). Hanmer became involved in the key scholarly controversies of his day, from the place of the Elizabethan Church in Christian history to the role of the 1581 Jesuit mission to England led by Edmund Campion and Robert Persons. As an army preacher in Ireland during the Nine Years War, Hanmer campaigned with the most acclaimed soldiers of his day. He nurtured connections with prominent intellectuals of his time and with the key figures of colonial government. His own career as a clergyman was colourful, involving bitter disputes with his parishioners and recurring aspersions on his character. Surprisingly, no study to date has centred on this intriguing character. The surviving evidence for Hanmer’s life and activities is unusually rich, comprising his published writings and a large body of under-exploited manuscript material. Drawing extensively on archival evidence scattered across a wide number of repositories, Dr. Andreani’s book contextualises Hanmer’s clerical activities and wide-ranging scholarship, elucidates his previously little understood career, and thus enriches our understanding of life, politics, and scholarship in the Elizabethan church.

Author : Kristin M.S. Bezio
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000640281

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The Eye of the Crown by Kristin M.S. Bezio Pdf

This volume discusses the development of governmental proto-bureaucracy, which led to and was influenced by the inclusion of professional agents and spies in the early modern English government. In the government’s attempts to control religious practices, wage war, and expand their mercantile reach both east and west, spies and agents became essential figures of empire, but their presence also fundamentally altered the old hierarchies of class and power. The job of the spy or agent required fluidity of role, the adoption of disguise and alias, and education, all elements that contributed to the ideological breakdown of social and class barriers. The volume argues that the inclusion of the lower classes (commoners, merchants, messengers, and couriers) in the machinery of government ultimately contributed to the creation of governmental proto-bureaucracy. The importance and significance of these spies is demonstrated through the use of statistical social network analysis, analyzing social network maps and statistics to discuss the prominence of particular figures within the network and the overall shape and dynamics of the evolving Elizabethan secret service. The Eye of the Crown is a useful resource for students and scholars interested in government, espionage, social hierarchy, and imperial power in Elizabethan England.

Author : Elizabeth R. Williamson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-23
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781000384765

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Elizabethan Diplomacy and Epistolary Culture by Elizabeth R. Williamson Pdf

A new account of Elizabethan diplomacy with an original archival foundation, this book examines the world of letters underlying diplomacy and political administration by exploring a material text never before studied in its own right: the diplomatic letter-book. Author Elizabeth R. Williamson argues that a new focus on the central activity of information gathering allows us to situate diplomacy in its natural context as one of several intertwined areas of crown service, and as one of the several sites of production of political information under Elizabeth I. Close attention to the material features of these letter-books elucidates the environment in which they were produced, copied, and kept, and exposes the shared skills and practices of diplomatic activity, domestic governance, and early modern archiving. This archaeological exploration of epistolary and archival culture establishes a métier of state actor that participates in – even defines – a notably early modern growth in administration and information management. Extending this discussion to our own conditions of access, a new parallel is drawn across two ages of information obsession as Williamson argues that the digital has a natural place in this textual history that we can no longer ignore. This study makes significant contributions to epistolary culture, diplomatic history, and early modern studies more widely, by showing that understanding Elizabethan diplomacy takes us far beyond any single ambassador or agent defined as such: it is a way into an entire administrative landscape and political culture.

Author : Nicholas Popper
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2024-01-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226825960

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The Specter of the Archive by Nicholas Popper Pdf

An exploration of the proliferation of paper in early modern Britain and its far-reaching effects on politics and society. We are used to thinking of ourselves as living in a time when more information is more available than ever before. In The Specter of the Archive, Nicholas Popper shows that earlier eras had to grapple with the same problem—how to deal with too much information at their fingertips. He reveals that early modern Britain was a society newly drowning in paper, a light and durable technology whose spread allowed statesmen to record drafts, memoranda, and other ephemera that might otherwise have been lost, and also made it possible for ordinary people to collect political texts. As original paperwork and copies alike flooded the government, information management became the core of politics. Focusing on two of the primary political archives of early modern England, the Tower of London Record Office and the State Paper Office, Popper traces the circulation of their materials through the government and the broader public sphere. In this early media-saturated society, we find the origins of many issues we face today: Who shapes the archive? Can we trust the pictures of the past and the present that it shows us? And, in a more politically urgent vein: Does a huge volume of widely available information (not all of it accurate) risk contributing to polarization and extremism?

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780198902935

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by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781838604776

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Political Advice by Anonim Pdf

The continuing churn of political advisers in Donald Trump's White House serve as a reminder of the salience and relevance of political advice. Political Advice: Past, Present and Future brings several very different voices to bear on the problem of advice and influence; the distinction in so far as it is valid between political and policy advice; the two-way parasitism of adviser and advised; the nature and idioms of political advice literature; the changing (and sometimes unchanging) nature of expertise; the ever-pressing issue of access and exclusion; and how that is controlled. This volume of essays feeds into a contemporary concern, set in a wider historical context. Moreover, the volume treats political advice in an interdisciplinary fashion with contributions from classics and literature as well as from history and politics. The unique practitioners' perspective to the problem of political advice is brought by the contributions of politicians, political advisers and senior civil servants.

Author : Sara Laviosa,Giovanni Iamartino,Eileen Mulligan
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781527574571

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Recent Trends in Translation Studies by Sara Laviosa,Giovanni Iamartino,Eileen Mulligan Pdf

This volume offers a snapshot of current perspectives on translation studies within the specific historical and socio-cultural framework of Anglo-Italian relations. It addresses research questions relevant to English historical, literary, cultural and language studies, as well as empirical translation studies. The book is divided into four chapters, each covering a specific research area in the scholarly field of translation studies: namely, historiography, literary translation, specialized translation and multimodality. Each case study selected for this volume has been conducted with critical insight and methodological rigour, and makes a valuable contribution to scientific knowledge in the descriptive and applied branches of a discipline that, since its foundation nearly 50 years ago, has concerned itself with the description, theory and practice of translating and interpreting.

Author : Donatella Montini,Iolanda Plescia
Publisher : Springer
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319719528

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Elizabeth I in Writing by Donatella Montini,Iolanda Plescia Pdf

This collection investigates Queen Elizabeth I as an accomplished writer in her own right as well as the subject of authors who celebrated her. With innovative essays from Brenda M. Hosington, Carole Levin, and other established and emerging experts, it reappraises Elizabeth’s translations, letters, poems and prayers through a diverse range of approaches to textuality, from linguistic and philological to literary and cultural-historical. The book also considers Elizabeth as “authored,” studying how she is reflected in the writing of her contemporaries and reconstructing a wider web of relations between the public and private use of language in early modern culture. Contributions from Carlo M. Bajetta, Guillaume Coatelen and Giovanni Iamartino bring the Queen’s presence in early modern Italian literary culture to the fore. Together, these essays illuminate the Queen in writing, from the multifaceted linguistic and rhetorical strategies that she employed, to the texts inspired by her power and charisma.

Author : Paul M. Dover
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 663 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009213370

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The Information Revolution in Early Modern Europe by Paul M. Dover Pdf

This provocative new history of early modern Europe argues that changes in the generation, preservation and circulation of information, chiefly on newly available and affordable paper, constituted an 'information revolution'. In commerce, finance, statecraft, scholarly life, science, and communication, early modern Europeans were compelled to place a new premium on information management. These developments had a profound and transformative impact on European life. The huge expansion in paper records and the accompanying efforts to store, share, organize and taxonomize them are intertwined with many of the essential developments in the early modern period, including the rise of the state, the Print Revolution, the Scientific Revolution, and the Republic of Letters. Engaging with historical questions across many fields of human activity, Paul M. Dover interprets the historical significance of this 'information revolution' for the present day, and suggests thought-provoking parallels with the informational challenges of the digital age.

Author : Callan Davies,Hannah Lilley,Catherine Richardson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2023-02-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000833928

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Practices of Ephemera in Early Modern England by Callan Davies,Hannah Lilley,Catherine Richardson Pdf

This collection is the first to historicise the term ephemera and its meanings for early modern England and considers its relationship to time, matter, and place. It asks: how do we conceive of ephemera in a period before it was routinely employed (from the eighteenth century) to describe ostensibly disposable print? In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries—when objects and texts were rapidly proliferating—the term began to acquire its modern association with transitoriness. But contributors to this volume show how ephemera was also integrally related to wider social and cultural ecosystems. Chapters explore those ecosystems and think about the papers and artefacts that shaped homes, streets, and cities or towns and their attendant preservation, loss, or transformation. The studies here therefore look beyond static records to think about moments of process and transmutation and accordingly get closer to early modern experiences, identities, and practices.

Author : Florence May Greir Higham,Florence May Greir Evans Higham
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1923
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Principal Secretary of State by Florence May Greir Higham,Florence May Greir Evans Higham Pdf

Author : Mel Evans
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107131217

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Royal Voices by Mel Evans Pdf

A linguistic examination of Tudor texts that demonstrates the importance of materiality and language in the construction of royal power.