Tudor History

Henry VIII - the king who made the father of Croatian literature popular in England / Henrik VIII. - kralj zbog kojega su Englezi počeli obožavati oca hrvatske književnosti

by Iva Kurelac

A popular science article, published in Hrvatska revija: časopis Matice hrvatske, vol. XI., no. 2, Zagreb, 2011, pp. 68-75.

Alehouse ditties and godly psalms

by Katherine Butler

Book Review

De constructie van een vorstelijk imago: Perkin Warbeck in de Nederlanden en het Heilige Roomse Rijk

by Steven Thiry

A Golden Wardrobe for a ‘Golden Age’

by Niki Incorvia

Review Essay on Edward VI: The Lost King of England by Chris Skidmore

by Niki Incorvia

Introduction to JBS 51.1 (January 2012)

by Brian Cowan

co-authored with Elizabeth Elbourne

1. Public Worship and Political Participation in Elizabethan England (pp. 4-25)
Natalie Mears
DOI:... more 1. Public Worship and Political Participation in Elizabethan England (pp. 4-25)
Natalie Mears
DOI: 10.1086/662297
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/662297

2. Opposition to Anti-Popery in Restoration England(pp. 26-49)
Scott Sowerby
DOI: 10.1086/662296
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/662296

3. “All Together and All Distinct”: Public Sociability and Social Exclusivity in London’s Pleasure Gardens, ca. 1740–1800(pp. 50-75)
Hannah Greig
DOI: 10.1086/662434
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/662434

4. Greece and Rome in the British Empire: Contrasting Role Models(pp. 76-101)
Krishan Kumar
DOI: 10.1086/662545
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/662545

5. Class Trips and the Meaning of British Citizenship: Travel, Educational Reform, and the Regent Street Polytechnic at Home and Abroad, 1871–1903(pp. 102-131)
Michele M. Strong
DOI: 10.1086/662605
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/662605

6. Pennies from Heaven and Earth in Mass Observation’s Blackpool(pp. 132-154)
Jennie Taylor
DOI: 10.1086/663018
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/663018

7. “Little Rock” in Britain: Jim Crow’s Transatlantic Topographies(pp. 155-177)
Kennetta Hammond Perry
DOI: 10.1086/663017
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/663017

The Polarization of Henry's Wives: Jane Seymour

by Niki Incorvia

Revisionist History and Character Biases: Jane Dunn’s book on Mary and Elizabeth

by Niki Incorvia

When I originally wrote a review on Jane Dunn’s book, Mary and Elizabeth: Cousins, Rivals, Queens for The Anne Boleyn... more When I originally wrote a review on Jane Dunn’s book, Mary and Elizabeth: Cousins, Rivals, Queens for The Anne Boleyn Files, I had not read other material on either of these women. My review was biased towards Elizabeth, as the author had been. However, reading more about Mary Queen of Scots, I realized she may have not been the lackadaisical and unambitious monarch that first framed my perceptions of her based on Dunn’s novel.

Cultural Integration in Early Modern European Courts

by Valentina Caldari

Published in 'Carnival. Journal of the International Students of History Association', vol. 12 (2010), pp. 21-32.

This paper focuses on the cultural integration that, during the XVI and XVII centuries, originates from the similar... more This paper focuses on the cultural integration that, during the XVI and XVII centuries, originates from the similar education of the élites, especially prince and princess in the European courts.
Clearly, these courts were very different one from the other in many aspects, but there was something that joins and integrates them: the education of the heirs at law: princes that in future would became kings and, more rarely, princess that – as in Tudor England – would became queens.
This argument is strictly connected to the more general relation between politics and gender in modern Europe, issue that, in the last few years, has attracted great interest among the historians. It can no longer maintained that gender played an insignificant role in the political theory, political culture and political reality of modern Europe. However, it is very difficult to conduct research into female education within historiographical production and literature that often atributes to men a central position. According to this interpretation the main role of the women in European courts was, in fact, to give birth to heirs.
Starting from these premises, my paper concernes the “cultural integration” because princes and princesses studied similar subjects during the course of their education and they often had the same tutors, as we can see in Vives’s or Erasmo’s works and – more recently – in the well-known book of Philippe Ariés.
To this purpose I will analyse two case-studies that show this kind of cultural integration in modern Europe: Louis XIII in France and Mary and Elizabeth in Tudor England.

“Cambridge’s Collegiate Crisis: King Henry VIII and the Suppression of Colleges, 1546”, Reformation and Renaissance Review 11.2 (2009).

by Andreas Loewe

Lord's Place, Leicester: An Urban Aristocratic House of the 16th Century

by paul courtney

‘The Play of the Weather in Performance in the Great Hall at Hampton Court’, Medieval English Theatre 31 (2009) 13-27

by Eleanor Rycroft

'The Play of The Weather in Performance in the Great Hall at Hampton Court’ reports on the AHRC-funded project... more 'The Play of The Weather in Performance in the Great Hall at Hampton Court’ reports on the AHRC-funded project ‘Staging the Henrician Court’, a collaboration between Oxford Brookes and Edinburgh Universities, with the cooperation of Historic Royal Palaces. The main focus of this was a series of experimental productions of Heywood’s Play of the Weather in the Great Hall at Hampton Court. The report speculates on the nuances and tone of courtly performance, and Heywood’s resultant attitude to his characters. It discusses significant staging decisions (not to have a substitute ‘Henry’ in the audience, not to use male actors in female roles), with a particular interest in the physical placing of the audience, and in the lighting, simulated in ingenious ways compatible with Health and Safety. Also discussed are the advantages and disadvantages of collaboration between academic and professional theatre practitioners, and the conservation constraints on planning a production in a major historical venue. Discussions afterwards turned up other possibilities, such as the adoption of more emblematic costume, and the use of boys as actors.

The pastoral use of the book of revelation in Late Tudor England

by Patrick O'Banion

published in Journal of Ecclesiastical History 57 (2006).

Over the past forty years historians have demonstrated continued interest in tracing the development of radical early... more Over the past forty years historians have demonstrated continued interest in tracing the development of radical early modern English apocalypticism. The Tudor and Stuart eschatological scene, however, encompassed more than just millenarian activism. This article emphasises the pastoral ends to which Revelation was used by a group of late sixteenth-century writers as they sought to make it accessible to the ‘common sort’ of Christian. Viewing interest in the Last Days through this pastoral lens highlights both the tense complexities present in the Elizabethan Church and the usefulness of eschatological themes in studying ordinary and normative aspects of religious experience.