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Shakespeare Beyond the Green World: Drama and Ecopolitics in Jacobean Britain The Seventeenth Century Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Stewart Mottram
Published in The Seventeenth Century (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Books received 2023 The Seventeenth Century Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Richard Maber
Published in The Seventeenth Century (Vol. 39, No. 2, 2024)
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The Legal Writing of Sir Edward Coke, the Anglo-Saxons, and Lex Terrae The Seventeenth Century Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Ian King
This article examines the treatises and law reports of Sir Edward Coke (1552–1634), the Attorney General under Elizabeth I and later, Chief Justice of the courts of Common Pleas and King’s Bench. T...
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‘Epiques chang’d to Doleful Elegies’: The Poems on the Death of Henry Stuart, Duke of Gloucester The Seventeenth Century Pub Date : 2024-03-01 John West
This article examines the elegies written in 1660 in response to the death of Henry Stuart, Duke of Gloucester. It analyses the elegies to show how Henry’s death meant the joys of the Restoration s...
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Restoration Playbooks and Receivers’ Stamps: James Magnes, Richard Bentley, and ‘the Post-Office in Russel-street in Covent-Garden’ The Seventeenth Century Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Emma Koch, David McInnis
This article examines the surprisingly prevalent incidence of contemporary handstamps impressed upon the final leaf of Restoration playbooks. These are all circular and contain either individual le...
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Charles I, the ‘Protestant Party,’ the Palatinate and a Franco-Stuart Alliance – 1636-9 The Seventeenth Century Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Fraser J. Dickinson
This article considers the foreign policy of Charles I towards France between 1636 and 1639. Against the backdrop of the Thirty Years War, Robert Sidney, second earl of Leicester, was dispatched to...
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The ambassador and the press: printed diplomatic letters and the entanglement of public and private news provision in the late seventeenth-century Dutch Republic The Seventeenth Century Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Basil Bowdler, Arthur der Weduwen
In 1669, the regents of the States General, the federal assembly of the Dutch Republic, instructed their printer (Statendrukker) henceforth to print all documents that they required in at least fiv...
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Hospitality towards European travellers in Latin America in the colonial middle The Seventeenth Century Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Sarah Albiez-Wieck, Raquel Gil Montero
Hospitality was considered a Christian and humanitarian virtue in the early modern period. This article studies hospitality in eight travel reports by Europeans who travelled Latin America in the c...
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The Devil from over the Sea: remembering and forgetting Oliver Cromwell in Ireland The Seventeenth Century Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Alan Ford
Published in The Seventeenth Century (Vol. 39, No. 1, 2024)
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Editorial The Seventeenth Century Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Richard Maber
Published in The Seventeenth Century (Vol. 39, No. 1, 2024)
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Rhetoric and scepticism: Thomas Browne’s Amphibium mind in Religio Medici The Seventeenth Century Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Seung Cho
This article explores Thomas Browne’s figuration of the Amphibium mind in Religio Medici as the hallmark of the seventeenth-century literary mind, oriented toward intellectual flexibility, generosi...
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Trace of Stoic logic in Descartes: Stoic axiōma and Descartes’s pronuntiatum in the Second Meditation The Seventeenth Century Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Ayumu Tamura
Published in The Seventeenth Century (Vol. 39, No. 1, 2024)
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New light on the strolling performers Thomas Peadle and Thomas Cosby, 1639–1650 The Seventeenth Century Pub Date : 2024-02-08 J. P. Vander Motten
The present article brings to light new information about Thomas Peadle, a representative of the younger generation of a late 16th- and early 17th-century family of strolling entertainers, whose ca...
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John Donne and English Puritanism, 1650–1700 The Seventeenth Century Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Katherine Calloway
In recent decades, it has become clear that John Donne’s seventeenth-century readership is larger and more varied than was once believed. One audience that has not been given much scholarly attenti...
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“Will doe all in her power”: the role of women in the contested will of Henry Cavendish The Seventeenth Century Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Laura Charles
When the 2nd Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Henry Cavendish died in 1691, he left behind one of the wealthiest estates in England. Having no male heir, he chose to leave his fortune to his favourite ...
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Fallacy/The Sophister (c. 1614), a Wykehamist play The Seventeenth Century Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Adrian Streete
Published in The Seventeenth Century (Vol. 39, No. 1, 2024)
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Literature and Natural Theology in Early Modern England The Seventeenth Century Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Mingna Cheng
Published in The Seventeenth Century (Vol. 39, No. 1, 2024)
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Annals of the War in the Low Countries The Seventeenth Century Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Helmer Helmers
Published in The Seventeenth Century (Vol. 39, No. 1, 2024)
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The political thought of the English free state, 1649–1653 The Seventeenth Century Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Alice Hunt
Published in The Seventeenth Century (Vol. 39, No. 1, 2024)
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Oliver Cromwell’s Kin, 1643-1726: The Private and Public Worlds of the English Revolution and Restoration The Seventeenth Century Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Alex Beeton
Published in The Seventeenth Century (Vol. 39, No. 1, 2024)
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Waltoniana Extensa: A Previously Unidentified Political Pamphlet by Izaak Walton The Seventeenth Century Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Benjamin M. Guyer
Published in The Seventeenth Century (Vol. 39, No. 2, 2024)
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The Precious Summary: a history of the Mongols from Chinggis Khan to the Qing dynasty The Seventeenth Century Pub Date : 2024-02-01 David Sneath
Published in The Seventeenth Century (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Urban Aesthetics in Early Modern London: The Invention of the Metaphysical The Seventeenth Century Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Adrian Green
Published in The Seventeenth Century (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Philosophical reflections on Japan’s Sakoku policy: seventeenth-century English perspectives The Seventeenth Century Pub Date : 2024-01-12 J.K. Numao
After the expulsion of the Portuguese from Japan in 1639, European trade with Japan was restricted to the Dutch. Doors were closed to other Western nations for the next 215 years. This isolationist...
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The Impact of Milton’s Of Education on the Hartlib Circle’s Understanding of Public and Private The Seventeenth Century Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Anthony Bromley
Milton’s Of Education was an influential contribution to the Hartlibian philosophy of advancing knowledge in the 1640s. This article proposes that Milton’s blueprint for an aristocratic academy enj...
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Contributors The Seventeenth Century Pub Date : 2023-12-14
Published in The Seventeenth Century (Vol. 38, No. 6, 2023)
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‘Decisions, Decisions!’ The Cromwellian clergy navigate the restoration of the church, c.1660–1663 The Seventeenth Century Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Rebecca Warren
Much attention has been paid to the ‘puritan’ clergy who refused to conform to the Act of Uniformity in 1662 but far less has been focused on those ministers of the revolution who chose to remain w...
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Contesting the Church of England 1640-70: the European Dimension The Seventeenth Century Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Anthony Milton
The contest over the identity of the Church of England in the mid-seventeenth century is often conceived from a purely English perspective. This article suggests that considering its neglected Euro...
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Introduction The Seventeenth Century Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Kenneth Fincham, Andrew Foster
Published in The Seventeenth Century (Vol. 38, No. 6, 2023)
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The godly lives of Samuel Clarke and the ‘national church’ in the 1650s The Seventeenth Century Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Peter Lake
The godly lives of Samuel Clarke have traditionally been consulted by historians of early Stuart puritanism for biographical information, particularly anecdotal information, about many of the most ...
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‘The wall and glory of Jerusalem’: the sermons preached before the Lord Mayor and City of London during in the Commonwealth, Protectorate and early Restoration (1649-1662) The Seventeenth Century Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Elliot Vernon
This paper examines the sermons preached before the Lord Mayor and leadership of the City of London during the Commonwealth, Protectorate and early Restoration. It explores the locations and admini...
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The English Presbyterian Conundrum of 1660-1 The Seventeenth Century Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Kenneth Fincham, Stephen Taylor
This article aims to explain the failure of the English presbyterian programme to reform the church at the Restoration. Specifically, it analyses the period between March 1660, when the Long Parlia...
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After 1662: ejected ministers and the support for nonconformity, the first decade revisited The Seventeenth Century Pub Date : 2023-12-14 David L. Wykes
This study reviews the development of Dissent during the first decade after the 1662 Act of Uniformity. It focuses on the laity as well as the ministers who were silenced, and on the Presbyterians ...
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The minister is much disheartened: clergy and their communities in Interregnum legal records The Seventeenth Century Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Fiona McCall
Many questions remain to be answered about the parish clergy who served in England’s churches between 1640 and 1660, due to the difficulties of interrogating the complex, ever-changing, singular an...
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Loss and Survival: The Episcopalian Spiritual Vocation, 1646-62 The Seventeenth Century Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Sarah Ward Clavier
This article outlines a forthcoming project on the episcopalian spiritual vocation in the period c.1640 to 1662. It explains the rationale for the project and its place within the historiography. T...
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Diversity, complexity and compromise: first thoughts from the House of Commons 1640–1660 project on the reshaping of the church The Seventeenth Century Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Vivienne Larminie
The enactment of religious change through Parliament during the Reformation gave it a central role in shaping the church in England; this role deepened in the mid-seventeenth century. The House of ...
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Catholics in the Interregnum The Seventeenth Century Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Eilish Gregory
This essay examines how Catholics experienced changes to the religious and political landscape during the Interregnum. Since the later sixteenth century, Catholics had faced legal sanctions because...
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Regional Book Distribution and Political Participation in the English Civil War The Seventeenth Century Pub Date : 2023-12-05 Niall Allsopp
Regional book distribution was central to political mobilization in the localities during the English Civil Wars. A contextual approach, building up a picture from print and manuscript sources such...
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Elizabeth Currer: religious non-conformity in John Dryden’s The Kind-Keeper and Aphra Behn’s The Widdow Ranter The Seventeenth Century Pub Date : 2023-11-14 Cora James
In many ways, Elizabeth Currer’s career typifies modern assumptions about Restoration actresses. In her mistress roles, we might recognise the ‘lusty young wench’ of John Harold Wilson’s 1958 study...
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George Wither and the New World The Seventeenth Century Pub Date : 2023-11-06 Stephen Bardle
Published in The Seventeenth Century (Vol. 39, No. 2, 2024)
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The Church of Ireland: power and distance in the early-seventeenth-century Atlantic The Seventeenth Century Pub Date : 2023-08-18 Alan Ford
The complex identities of the Church of Ireland – independent of the Church of England but often treated as if it were subservient, like the ambiguities of the Irish state – part English colony, pa...
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Décolletage disputes in early modern France The Seventeenth Century Pub Date : 2023-08-15 Paul Scott
ABSTRACT This article looks at moralistic reactions to the fashion of décolletage during the seventeenth century in France. No previous research has focused on this specific movement, the scope of which is larger than has previously been acknowledged. A series of publications and sermons took aim at plunging necklines, particularly in church settings. Far from being isolated and discrete episodes,
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John Harris, the Oxford Army Press, and the radicalizing process The Seventeenth Century Pub Date : 2023-08-10 William Clayton
ABSTRACT This paper aims to reconstruct the life, networks, and experiences of the Caroline actor-turned-printer and journalist, John Harris, the pen behind Mercurius Militaris, the most radical newsbook of the civil war period. It provides the first extensive biography of Harris’s life, shedding new light on the role of his ‘Oxford Press’ in New Model Army politics in the crucial summer of 1647. The
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The last witches of England: a tragedy of sorcery and superstition The Seventeenth Century Pub Date : 2023-08-03 E. J. Kent
Published in The Seventeenth Century (Vol. 38, No. 5, 2023)
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Reading mathematics in early modern Europe: studies in the production, collection, and use of mathematical books The Seventeenth Century Pub Date : 2023-07-26 Michael J. Barany
Published in The Seventeenth Century (Vol. 38, No. 5, 2023)
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Decorating the parish church in post-Reformation England: material culture, community and identity in Dorset, Somerset and Wiltshire, 1560-1640 The Seventeenth Century Pub Date : 2023-07-13 John Reeks
Published in The Seventeenth Century (Vol. 38, No. 5, 2023)
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The restraint of the press in England, 1660-1715: the communication of sin The Seventeenth Century Pub Date : 2023-07-13 Jason Peacey
Published in The Seventeenth Century (Vol. 38, No. 5, 2023)
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Merchants: the community that shaped England’s trade and empire The Seventeenth Century Pub Date : 2023-07-12 David Veevers
Published in The Seventeenth Century (Vol. 38, No. 5, 2023)
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Memory and mortality in Renaissance England The Seventeenth Century Pub Date : 2023-07-10 Rachel Monsey
Published in The Seventeenth Century (Vol. 38, No. 5, 2023)
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Shakespeare’s language The Seventeenth Century Pub Date : 2023-07-05 Paul Hammond
ABSTRACT Review article of The Arden Encyclopedia of Shakespeare’s Language, edited by Jonathan Culpepper, Andrew Hardie and Jane Demmen, 2 vols, London, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023, xxiv + 842 pp., £400 (hardback), ISBN 9781350017955
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Shakespeare’s Tutor: the influence of Thomas Kyd The Seventeenth Century Pub Date : 2023-06-22 Richard Rowland
Published in The Seventeenth Century (Vol. 38, No. 4, 2023)
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A Companion to the Reformation in Scotland, ca. 1525–1638: frameworks of change and development The Seventeenth Century Pub Date : 2023-06-22 Chris R. Langley
Published in The Seventeenth Century (Vol. 38, No. 4, 2023)
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The Ottoman art of word-painting. Rhyme and reason in seventeenth-century Turkish literary letters The Seventeenth Century Pub Date : 2023-06-21 Christine Woodhead
ABSTRACT Among highly-educated Ottomans letter-writing was not simply a means of practical communication but an art in itself and a significant aspect of Ottoman literary culture. Collections of exemplary letters from the seventeenth century survive in considerable numbers, but they have been neglected as literary and historical sources due largely to the complexity of their rhymed, rhetorical prose
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Governors, the Royalist war effort, and power’s personalisation in Northern England, 1642–9 The Seventeenth Century Pub Date : 2023-06-20 Tristan Griffin
ABSTRACT Royalist administration during the British Civil Wars of the mid-seventeenth century has been understudied, a consequence both of the historic destruction of primary sources and due to a longstanding bias against investigation into Royalism by historians. However, extant sources, such as civic corporations’ records, have survived in regional archives to reconstruct Royalist military government
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A Trojan horse in the citadel of orthodoxy: Samuel Maresius’s critique of Cartesian theology The Seventeenth Century Pub Date : 2023-06-09 Kuni Sakamoto, Yoshi Kato
ABSTRACT As a prominent theologian of Dutch Reformed orthodoxy, Samuel Maresius wrote De abusu philosophiae cartesianae (1670) to denounce the dangers of Cartesian theology. Despite its importance in the history of early modern Cartesianism, a crucial question about the work remains to be answered: which aspects of Cartesian theology did Maresius condemn as the most dangerous for Reformed orthodoxy
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Re-assessing the seventeenth-century quarto of Sir David Lindsay’s Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis (1602-04) The Seventeenth Century Pub Date : 2023-06-08 Oliver Rhodes
ABSTRACT Sir David Lindsay’s morality play Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis (c.1552) is the only surviving drama of pre-Reformation Scotland. A quarto printed by Robert Charteris in Edinburgh in 1602, and redistributed in London in 1604, is accepted to be the best full representation of the play as it was originally performed. This essay explores the major historical challenges posed by the play’s
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Literature, learning, and social hierarchy in early modern Europe The Seventeenth Century Pub Date : 2023-05-31 Adam Bridgen
Published in The Seventeenth Century (Vol. 38, No. 4, 2023)
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‘There is a religion in our love’: friendship and ecclesiology in the poetry of Katherine Philips, 1650-1653 The Seventeenth Century Pub Date : 2023-05-25 Jason A. Kerr
ABSTRACT This paper considers the concept of ‘religion’ in Katherine Philips’s poems to her close women friends – Mary Aubrey (‘Rosania’) and Anne Owen (‘Lucasia’) – in the early 1650s, poems that find Philips adding a religious dimension to her more usual language of Platonic friendship. The paper argues that she does so in response to the religious conflict that embroiled her and her husband amidst
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Courting India: England, Mughal India and the origins of empire The Seventeenth Century Pub Date : 2023-05-23 David Howarth
Published in The Seventeenth Century (Vol. 38, No. 4, 2023)
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Relationality, community and collaboration in seventeenth-century Chancery court records The Seventeenth Century Pub Date : 2023-05-23 Mary Chadwick
ABSTRACT This article adds significantly to the literature on the value of Chancery court documents, depositions in particular, demonstrating their worth as a source of information about early modern community relations, and collective and individual identity. Through a detailed reading of one particular late seventeenth-century case, it argues that depositions should be viewed as collaborations between