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Seeking the Supernatural: The Exorcisms of John Darrell and the Formation of an Orthodox Identity in Early Modern England
Posted on February 1, 2012 | No CommentsThis thesis examines the questions raised by Darrell‘s exorcisms and the ways in which they were shaped by relations of power. I hope that it will shed new light on the ways in which people formed their religious and ideological identities in this pivotal period in English history. -
Courtship and Marriage Rituals in Seventeenth Century England
Posted on January 27, 2012 | No CommentsThis thesis will examine the more personal side of courtship and marriage, through the use of seventeenth century diaries and letters. -
The 1536 Dissolution of the Lesser Monasteries: Same Suppression, Different Century
Posted on January 13, 2012 | No CommentsFive hundred years ago, Henry VIII began the demise of monasticism in England. Beginning with the Suppression Act of 1536, and continuing with the Act for the Dissolution of the Greater Monasteries in 1539, monasteries across England were closed. -
“Like Spiders’ Webs for Flies”: False Confinement in Nineteenth-Century English Asylums
Posted on December 20, 2011 | No CommentsIn the eighteenth century, many people feared being taken by some unscrupulous person, be he family member, friend, or stranger, to a madhouse to be locked away forever to the detriment of their health, wealth, and sanity. ..By the early nineteenth century, enough legislation had been passed and enough investigations were being carried out that this fear should perhaps not have been so pressing. -
High crimes: the law of treason in late Stuart Britain
Posted on December 14, 2011 | No CommentsThis is the first work on treason to concentrate exclusively on the all important years between the Restoration and the Union, when the number of trials for this most serious of all crimes reached new heights and during which time the procedural law of treason underwent significant changes. -
The Role of Charles I in the Evolution of Taste and Collecting in England
Posted on October 16, 2011 | No CommentsCharles and his courtiers brought to England, for the first time, the awareness of taste and the development of collecting habits similar to those in continental Europe. -
The Hunt for Jack the Ripper
Posted on October 16, 2011 | No CommentsWilliam D. Rubinstein reviews the achievements of the ‘Ripperologists’ and lends weight to the argument surrounding the Ripper Diaries. -
“Most Barbarous and Damnable Treason”: The Gunpowder Plot and how it is viewed in the Past and Present
Posted on October 10, 2011 | No Comments“Most Barbarous and Damnable Treason”: The Gunpowder Plot and how it is viewed in the Past and Present York, Jill B.A. Thesis, University of Wisconsin, (2008) Abstract This paper will discuss... -
Sumptuary Legislation and the Fabric Construction of National Identity
Posted on October 10, 2011 | No CommentsSumptuary Legislation and the Fabric Construction of National Identity Early Modern England: Constructing the Past: Vol. 8: Iss. 1 (2007) SHULMAN, RACHEL Abstract As England transitioned from a medieval mode of... -
The Threat of Otherness in Bram Stoker’s Dracula
Posted on October 9, 2011 | No CommentsThe Threat of Otherness in Bram Stoker’s Dracula Muskovits, Eszter Trans— No 10 (2010) Abstract Hand in hand with scientific research on sexuality for modern culture, gothic fiction became immensely... -
Inventing the Wicked Women of Tudor England: Alice More, Anne Boleyn, and Anne Stanhope
Posted on October 9, 2011 | No CommentsInventing the Wicked Women of Tudor England: Alice More, Anne Boleyn, and Anne Stanhope Warnicke, Retha M. (Arizona State University) Quidditas: Journal of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association,... -
Political Bodies and Animal Economies: Reconsidering the Relationship between Healthcare and Statecraft in Late Seventeenth-Century England
Posted on October 7, 2011 | No CommentsPolitical Bodies and Animal Economies: Reconsidering theRelationship between Healthcare and Statecraft in Late Seventeenth-Century England Ridge, Steve (Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London) Ex... -
William Herle and the English Secret Service
Posted on October 6, 2011 | No CommentsWilliam Herle and the English Secret Service Gill, Michael Patrick M.A. Thesis, Victoria University of Wellington (2010) Abstract This thesis examines William Herle‘s life through his surviving letters to William... -
Aberrant Accounts: William Dugdale’s Handling of Two Tudor Murders in The Antiquities of Warwickshire
Posted on October 5, 2011 | No CommentsAberrant Accounts: William Dugdale’s Handling of Two Tudor Murders in The Antiquities of Warwickshire Broadway, Jane Midland history, Vol. 33, No. 1, Spring (2008) Abstract This article examines two accounts... -
The case of Aaron Kosminski: was he Jack the Ripper?
Posted on October 4, 2011 | No CommentsThe case of Aaron Kosminski: was he Jack the Ripper? S. K. Lekh, A. Langa, P. Begg and B. K. Puri Psychiatric Bulletin (1992), 16:786-788 Abstract The Whitechapel murders of... -
The Victorian Child, c. 1837-1901
Posted on October 4, 2011 | No CommentsThe Victorian Child, c. 1837-1901 Gubar, Marah (University of Pittsburgh) The Representing Childhood Project (2005) Abstract In 1799, children’s author and educator Hannah More reacted against the revolutions that had... -
Justices of the Peace in Mid-Tudor Devon Circa 1538-1570
Posted on July 17, 2010 | No CommentsJustices of the Peace in Mid-Tudor Devon Circa 1538-1570 By Rebecca Jane Zmarzly Master’s Thesis, Texas State University (2007) Introduction: The mid-Tudor era of English history is characterized by larger... -
“Not Onely a Pastour, but a Lawyer also”: George Herbert’s Vision of Stuart Magistracy
Posted on March 18, 2010 | No Comments“Not Onely a Pastour, but a Lawyer also”: George Herbert’s Vision of Stuart Magistracy Powers-Beck, Jeffrey Early Modern Literary Studies 1.2 (August 1995) Abstract “Justice is the ground of charity”... -
Milton’s ‘Divorcive’ Liberties: Ecclesiastical, Domestic or Private, Civil and Cosmological
Posted on March 9, 2010 | No CommentsMilton’s ‘Divorcive’ Liberties: Ecclesiastical, Domestic or Private, Civil and Cosmological Howard, W. Scott Early Modern Literary Studies 10.1 (May, 2004) Abstract In his pamphlets from the 1640s – in particular:... -
Women, Children, and the Rhetoric of Milton’s Divorce Tracts
Posted on March 9, 2010 | No CommentsWomen, Children, and the Rhetoric of Milton’s Divorce Tracts van den Berg, Sara Early Modern Literary Studies 10.1 (May, 2004) Abstract In his divorce tracts, Milton uses vignette, metaphor, and... -
Are We Bestial?: The Alterity of the Renaissance: A Response to “(Un)natural Loving: Swine, Pets, and Flowers in Venus and Adonis” by Dympna Callaghan
Posted on February 18, 2010 | No CommentsAre We Bestial?: The Alterity of the Renaissance: A Response to “(Un)natural Loving: Swine, Pets, and Flowers in Venus and Adonis” by Dympna Callaghan Bach, Rebecca Ann Early Modern Culture,... -
(Un)natural Loving: Swine, Pets, and Flowers in Venus and Adonis
Posted on February 18, 2010 | No Comments(Un)natural Loving:Swine, Pets, and Flowers in Venus and Adonis Callaghan, Dympna Early Modern Culture, No. 3 (2003) Abstract The history of the twentieth century is such that one is tempted... -
Medea in the courtroom and on the stage in nineteenth century London
Posted on February 15, 2010 | No CommentsMedea in the courtroom and on the stage in nineteenth century London Goc, Nicola Elizabeth Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies, Vol 14, No 1 (2009) Abstract In 430 BC Greek... -
Law, Literature and Symbolic Revolution: Bleak House
Posted on February 15, 2010 | No CommentsLaw, Literature and Symbolic Revolution: Bleak House Kieran, Dolin Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies, Vol 12, No 1 (2007) Abstract In 1988 the House of Lords decided an appeal case... -
Sanctuary and the Legal Topography of Pre-Reformation London
Posted on January 25, 2010 | No CommentsSanctuary and the Legal Topography of Pre-Reformation London By Shannon McSheffrey Law and History Review, Vol. 27:3 (Fall 2009) Introduction: In early sixteenth-century England, the presence of ecclesiastical sanctuaries in the... -
Give Me Not Poverty, Lest I Steal
Posted on January 21, 2010 | No CommentsGive Me Not Poverty, Lest I Steal Backscheider, Paula R The Eighteenth Century, Volume 48, Number 1, Spring 2007 Abstract “The Judges sat Grave and Mute, gave me an easy... -
The Poll Tax and Census of Sheep, I549, (Continued from Vol. 1, p. 15)
Posted on January 7, 2010 | No CommentsThe Poll Tax and Census of Sheep, I549, (Continued from Vol. 1, p. 15) Beresford, M. W. Agricultural History Review,Volume 2 (1954) Abstract It is in this atmosphere of proposals... -
The Old Bailey proceedings and the representation of crime and criminal justice in eighteenth-century London
Posted on December 17, 2009 | No CommentsThe Old Bailey proceedings and the representation of crime and criminal justice in eighteenth-century London By R.B. Shoemaker Journal of British Studies, Vol.47:3 (2008) Introduction: The Proceedings of the Old...