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Andreas, Einsiedel, ed. Classic English interiors. New York: Rizzoli, 1992.
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Spencer-Churchill, Henrietta. Classic English interiors. London: Anaya Publihers, 1990.
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Malcolm, Jones. The print in early modern England: An historical oversight. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010.
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The print in early modern England: An historical oversight. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010.
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Joseph, O'Neill. Land under England. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1987.
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Literarische Faszination in England um 1900. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2012.
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Film England: Culturally English filmmaking since the 1990s. London: I.B. Tauris, 2011.
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Smith, Charles Saumarez. Eighteenth-century decoration: Design and the domestic interior in England. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1993.
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Eighteenth-century decoration: Design and the domestic interior in England. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1993.
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Studien zum weiblichen Rollenporträt in England von Anthonis van Dyck bis Joshua Reynolds. Weimar: VDG, 1999.
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Albert, Pearsall Derek, and Zeeman Nicolette 1956-, eds. English and international: Studies in the literature, art, and patronage of medieval England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
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Wood, Marcus. Blind memory: Visual representations of slavery in England and America 1780-1865. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2000.
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Blind memory: Visual representations of slavery in England and America 1780-1865. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000.
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Solkin, David H. Painting for money: The visual arts and the public sphere in eighteenth-century England. New Haven: Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, 1993.
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Solkin, David H. Painting for money: The visual arts and the public sphere in eighteenth-century England. New Haven: Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, 1993.
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The poetics of literary transfer in early modern France and England. Farnham, England: Ashgate, 2010.
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Wood, Marcus. Blind memory: Visual representations of slavery in England and America. New York, NY: Routledge, 2000.
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Weiss, Judith, Nicole Clifton, and Ivana Djordjevic, eds. Waldef. NL Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9781641894067.
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This first English translation of Le Roman de Waldef makes a significant representative of the French literature of medieval England accessible for the first time. Its wide-ranging content provides an ideal introduction to a number of themes in medieval literature, making it suitable for a variety of undergraduate and graduate courses. The fast-moving romance plot of this early thirteenth-century tale recounts the ancestry and exploits of Waldef and his two sons, set against a history of pre-Conquest England. The narrative shares themes and incident types with other important insular romances, including the Lai of Haveloc, Boeve de Haumtone, and Gui de Warewic. Waldef’s scope, interest in battle, and political stratagems bear reading alongside medieval chronicles, while secret love affairs connect it with other romance literature of the period, and adventures across a wide area of the known world provide affinities with medieval travel narrative.
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Jennifer, Alexander, ed. The early art of Coventry, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwick, and lesser sites in Warwickshire: A subject list of extant and lost art including items relevant to early drama. Kalamazoo, Mich: Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, 1985.
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L, Scott Kathleen, Nichols Ann Eljenholm, Dennison Lynda, Orr Michael T, and Bodleian Library, eds. An index of images in English manuscripts from the time of Chaucer to Henry VIII, c. 1380-c. 1509. Turnhout, Belgium: Harvey Miller Publishers, 2000.
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Spencer-Churchill, Henrietta. Classic English Interiors. Rizzoli International Publications, 2003.
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Favourite Poems of England. Pavilion Books, 2014.
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Spencer-Churchill, Henrietta. Classic English Interiors. Collins & Brown, 2001.
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Favourite Poems of England: A Collection to Celebrate This Green and Pleasant Land. Pavilion Books, 2017.
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Palmer, Thomas. Jansenism and England. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198816652.001.0001.
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This book examines the impact in mid- to later seventeenth-century England of the major contemporary religious controversy in France, which revolved around the formal condemnation of a heresy popularly called Jansenism. The associated debates involved fundamental questions about the doctrine of grace and moral theology, about the life of the Church and the conduct of individual Christians. The book offers an analysis of the main themes of the controversy and an account of instances of English interest, arguing that English Protestant theologians who were in the process of working out their own views on basic theological questions recognized the relevance of the continental debates. The arguments evolved by the French writers also constitute a point of comparison for the developing views of English theologians. Where the Jansenists reasserted an Augustinian emphasis on the gratuity of salvation against Catholic theologians who overvalued the powers of human nature, the English writers examined here, arguing against Protestant theologians who denied nature any moral potency, emphasized man’s contribution to his own salvation. Both arguments have been seen to contain a corrosive individualism, the former through its preoccupation with the luminous experience of grace, the latter through its tendency to elide grace and moral virtue. These assessments are challenged here. Nevertheless, these theologians did encourage greater individualism. Focusing on the affective experience of conversion, they developed forms of moral rigorism which represented, in both cases, an attempt to provide a reliable basis for Christian faith and practice in the fragmented intellectual context of post-Reformation Europe.
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Palmer, Thomas. Transmission into England. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198816652.003.0003.
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This chapter illustrates the extent to which English readers were familiar with French works produced by the reforming writers of Port-Royal and by the controversy over Jansenism which gathered pace after the publication of Jansen’s Augustinus in 1640. It shows that readers from across the spectrum of religious and political opinion in England were aware from an early stage of the principal themes and the major works associated with the controversy, including the output not only of Antoine Arnauld, the intellectual leader of the Port-Royal group, and Pascal, its most celebrated apologist, but also of their spiritual master, the abbé de Saint-Cyran. In surveying these works the chapter also extends the background provided in chapter 1 across some of the wider themes which occupied the Port-Royalists.
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English and International: Studies in the Literature, Art and Patronage of Medieval England. Cambridge University Press, 1988.
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Coss, Peter. The Aristocracy in England and Tuscany, 1000 - 1250. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198846963.001.0001.
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Part I of this book is an in-depth examination of the characteristics of the Tuscan aristocracy across the first two and a half centuries of the second millennium, as studied by Italian historians and others working within the Italian tradition: their origins, interests, strategies for survival and exercise of power; the structure and the several levels of aristocracy and how these interrelated; the internal dynamics and perceptions that governed aristocratic life; and the relationship to non-aristocratic sectors of society. It will look at how aristocratic society changed across this period and how far changes were internally generated as opposed to responses from external stimuli. The relationship between the aristocracy and public authority will also be examined. Part II of the book deals with England. The aim here is not a comparative study but to bring insights drawn from Tuscan history and Tuscan historiography into play in understanding the evolution of English society from around the year 1000 to around 1250. This part of the book draws on the breadth of English historiography but is also guided by the Italian experience. The book challenges the interpretative framework within which much English history of this period tends to be written—that is to say the grand narrative which revolves around Magna Carta and English exceptionalism—and seeks to avoid dangers of teleology, of idealism, and of essentialism. By offering a study of the aristocracy across a wide time-frame and with themes drawn from Italian historiography, I hope to obviate these tendencies and to appreciate the aristocracy firmly within its own contexts.
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Tracy, Larissa, and Geert H. M. Claassens, eds. Medieval English and Dutch Literatures: The European Context. Boydell and Brewer Limited, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781800105997.
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This collection honours the scholarship of Professor David F. Johnson, exploring the wider view of medieval England and its cultural contracts with the Low Countries, and highlighting common texts, motifs, and themes across the textual traditions of Old English and later medieval romances in both English and Middle Dutch.
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Machan, Tim William. When English Became Latin. Edited by James Simpson and Brian Cummings. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199212484.013.0014.
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The English language, at all grammatical levels, underwent a profound, albeit gradual, change between 1377 and 1642. These phonological changes include the Great Vowel Shift and the change in inflectional morphology. This article examines the transition from Middle English to Modern English and how English became Latin. It considers the retention of what might be called England’s sociolinguistic infrastructure, alongside a wide-ranging reconfiguration of English’s grammar and social uses. It discusses three unfamiliar constancies that characterize the decisive shift in the English language between the medieval and early modern epochs: the first involved the object of grammatical inquiry in early modern England, the second concerned the character of England’s linguistic repertoire of which diglossia was the notable organizing principle, and the third relates to the cultural significance that English was understood to project as an emerging High Language.
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Broad, Jacqueline, ed. Women Philosophers of Eighteenth-Century England. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197506981.001.0001.
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This volume is an edited collection of the philosophical correspondences of three English women of the eighteenth century: Mary Astell, Elizabeth Thomas, and Catharine Trotter Cockburn. The selected correspondence includes letters to and/or from John Norris, George Hickes, Mary Chudleigh, Richard Hemington, John Locke, Ann Hepburn Arbuthnot, and Edmund Law. Their epistolary exchanges range over a wide variety of philosophical subjects, from questions about the love of God and other people to the causes of sensation in the mind, the metaphysical foundations of moral obligation, and the importance of independence of judgement in one’s moral choices and actions. The volume includes a main introduction by the editor, which explains some of the key themes and developments in the eighteenth-century letters, including an increased awareness of other women’s writings and of the concerns of women as a sociopolitical group. It is argued that if we look beyond printed treatises to the content of these letters, it is possible to gain a fuller appreciation of women’s involvement in philosophical debates of the 1690s and early 1700s. To situate each woman’s thought in its historical-intellectual context, the volume includes original introductory essays for each principal figure, showing how her correspondence relates either to her contemporaries’ ideas or to her own published views. The text also provides detailed scholarly annotations, explaining obscure philosophical ideas and archaic words and phrases in the letters. Among its critical apparatus, the volume includes a note on the texts, a bibliography, and an index.
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Kenny, Michael, Iain McLean, and Akash Paun, eds. Governing England. British Academy, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5871/bacad/9780197266465.001.0001.
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England is ruled directly from Westminster by institutions and parties that are both English and British. The non-recognition of England reflects a long-standing assumption of ‘unionist statecraft’ that to draw a distinction between what is English and what is British risks destabilising the union state. The book examines evidence that this conflation of England and Britain is growing harder to sustain in view of increasing political divergence between the nations of the UK and the awakening of English national identity. These trends were reflected in the 2016 vote to leave the European Union, driven predominantly by English voters (outside London). Brexit was motivated in part by a desire to restore the primacy of the Westminster Parliament, but there are countervailing pressures for England to gain its own representative institutions and for devolution to England’s cities and regions. The book presents competing interpretations of the state of English nationhood, examining the views that little of significance has changed, that Englishness has been captured by populist nationalism, and that a more progressive, inclusive Englishness is struggling to emerge. We conclude that England’s national consciousness remains fragmented due to deep cleavages in its political culture and the absence of a reflective national conversation about England’s identity and relationship with the rest of the UK and the wider world. Brexit was a (largely) English revolt, tapping into unease about England’s place within two intersecting Unions (British and European), but it is easier to identify what the nation spoke against than what it voted for.
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Solkin, David H. Painting for Money: The Visual Arts and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century England (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in Britis). Paul Mellon Centre BA, 1996.
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Stanford, James N. New England English. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190625658.001.0001.
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For nearly 400 years, New England has held an important place in the development of American English, and “New England accents” are very well known in popular imagination. But since the 1930s, no large-scale academic book project has focused specifically on New England English. While other research projects have studied dialect features in various regions of New England, this is the first large-scale scholarly project to focus solely on New England English since the Linguistic Atlas of New England. This book presents new research covering all six New England states, with detailed geographic, phonetic, and statistical analysis of data collected from over 1,600 New Englanders. The book covers the past, present, and future of New England dialect features, analyzing them with dialect maps and statistical modeling in terms of age, gender, social class, ethnicity, and other factors. The book reports on a recent large-scale data collection project that included 367 field interviews, 626 audio-recorded interviews, and 634 online written questionnaires. Using computational methods, the project processed over 200,000 individual vowels in audio recordings to examine changes in New England speech. The researchers also manually examined 30,000 instances of /r/ to investigate “r-dropping” in words like “park” and so on. The book also reviews other recent research in the area. Using acoustic phonetics, computational processing, detailed statistical analyses, dialect maps, and graphical illustrations, the book systematically documents all of the major traditional New England dialect features, other regional features, and their current usage across New England.
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Rosenberg, Leah. The Novel in English in the Caribbean to 1950. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199609932.003.0008.
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This chapter explores English-language novels in the Caribbean. The West Indian novel was seen as a post-Second World War literary phenomenon, the creation of male authors who, born in Britain's Caribbean colonies, began arriving in England in the 1950s as part of a larger wave of Caribbean immigrants. Despite the diverse origins and perspectives of the Anglophone Caribbean's many writers, several dominant themes emerge. West Indian novels comprised a spectrum of direct, indirect, partial, and unwitting deviations from and challenges to English literary genres and ideologies. Novelists were particularly engaged with the ideologies of race and domesticity and the closely linked genre of romance. Nearly all West Indian novels of the nineteenth century were romances featuring elite West Indian heroes who excelled their English counterparts in domestic and civic virtue, while the twentieth century saw the emergence of literature that so revelled in social and sexual disorder that it constituted anti-romance.
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Henderson, Ailsa, and Richard Wyn Jones. Englishness. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198870784.001.0001.
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For a topic that until recently was presumed not to exist, English nationalism has transformed into an apparently obvious explanation for the Brexit result in England. Subsequent opinion polls have also raised doubts about the extent of continuing English commitment to the union of the United Kingdom itself. Yet, even as Englishness is apparently reshaping Britain’s place in the world and—perhaps—the state itself, it remains poorly understood, in part because of its unfamiliarity. It has long been assumed that nationalism is a feature of political life in the state’s periphery—Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland—but not its English core. Another barrier to understanding bas been the relative lack of public attitudes data with which to explore the nature of English nationalist sentiment.This book draws on data from a survey vehicle—the Future of England Survey—specially established in 2011 to facilitate the exploration of patterns of national identity in England and their political implications. On the basis of these data, Englishness offers new arguments about the nature and effect of English nationalism on British politics, as well as how Britishness operates in different parts of Britain. Crucially, it demonstrates that English nationalism is emphatically not a rejection of Britain and Britishness. Rather, English nationalism combines a sense of grievance about England’s place within the UK with a fierce commitment to a particular vision of Britain’s past, present, and future. Understanding its Janus-faced nature—both England and Britain, as it were—is key not only to understanding English nationalism, but also to understanding the ways in which it is transforming British politics.
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Buschfeld, Sarah, and Alexander Kautzsch, eds. Modelling World Englishes. Edinburgh University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474445863.001.0001.
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This volume brings together different varieties of English that have so far been treated separately: postcolonial and non-postcolonial Englishes. The different contributions examine these varieties of English against the backdrop of current World Englishes theorising, with a special focus on the Extra- and Intra-territorial Forces (EIF) Model (Buschfeld and Kautzsch 2017). Building on the general conception of Schneider’s (2003, 2007) Dynamic Model, the EIF Model aims at integrating postcolonial and non-postcolonial Englishes in a unified framework of World Englishes. The editors of the proposed volume claim that in the development of any kind of English around the world, forces from both outside and inside the community are in operation and lead to different outcomes as regards the status and characteristics of English. Each chapter tests the validity of this new model, analyses a different variety of English and assesses it in relation to current models of World Englishes. The case studies examine English(es) in England, Namibia, the United Arab Emirates, India, Singapore, the Philippines, South Korea, Japan, Australia, North America, The Bahamas, Trinidad, Tristan da Cunha, St. Helena, Bermuda, the Falkland Islands, Ireland, Gibraltar and Ghana.
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Palmer, Thomas. Reception in England. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198816652.003.0005.
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This chapter explores reactions to the Jansenist anti-casuist and anti-Jesuit writings among Restoration religious thinkers and pamphleteers. These ranged from a straightforward assimilation of the material into existing structures of anti-Catholic thinking, to a more nuanced reception, which took account of the positive theological case argued by the Port-Royalists as well as the colourful evidence of Catholic iniquity which their polemics comprised. The latter added little that was absolutely new for English thinkers already conversant with Catholic theology and casuistry, but their style and power was striking, and their impact is visible across English religious discourse in the period. The manner in which they were used, furthermore, points to divisions within English theology. Their focus on morality, and their technical criticisms of probabilism, it is suggested, were of greatest relevance to thinkers reacting against a theological framework which prioritized faith over obedience, and denigrated the authority of reason.
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Gunn, Steven. The English People at War in the Age of Henry VIII. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198802860.001.0001.
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Henry VIII fought many wars, against the French and Scots, against rebels in England and the Gaelic lords of Ireland, even against his traditional allies in the Low Countries. But how much did they really affect his subjects? And what role did Henry’s reign play in the long-term transformation of England’s military capabilities? This book searches for the answers to these questions in parish and borough account books, wills and memoirs, buildings and paintings, letters from Henry’s captains, and the notes readers wrote in their printed history books. It looks back from Henry’s reign to that of his grandfather, Edward IV, who in 1475 invaded France in the afterglow of the Hundred Years War, and forwards to that of Henry’s daughter Elizabeth, who was trying by the 1570s to shape a trained militia and a powerful navy to defend England in a Europe increasingly polarized by religion. War, it shows, marked Henry’s England at every turn: in the news and prophecies people discussed, in the money towns and villages spent on armour, guns, fortifications, and warning beacons, in the way noblemen used their power. War disturbed economic life, made men buy weapons and learn how to use them, and shaped people’s attitudes to the king and to national history. War mobilized a high proportion of the English population and conditioned their relationships with the French and Scots, the Welsh and the Irish. War should be recognized as one of the defining features of life in the England of Henry VIII.
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Patterson, W. B. Thomas Fuller. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198793700.001.0001.
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Long considered a distinctive English writer, Thomas Fuller (1608–1661) has not been recognized as the important historian he was. Fuller’s The Church-History of Britain (1655) was the first history of Christianity from its planting in ancient Britain to the mid-seventeenth century. Fuller’s History of the Worthies of England (1662) was, moreover, the first biographical dictionary in England. It seeks to represent noteworthy individuals in the context of their native counties. This book, Thomas Fuller: Discovering England’s Religious Past, highlights the fact that Fuller was a major contributor to the flowering of historical writing in early modern England. It provides a biography of Thomas Fuller, an account of the tumultuous times in which he lived, and a critical assessment of the origins, growth, and achievements of a new kind of history, a genre to which he made significant and lasting contributions. Memory is a central theme. Widely known for his own memory, Fuller sought to revive the memory of the English people concerning their religious and political past. By means of historical research involving records, books, personal interviews, and travels, he sought to discover his country’s religious past and to bring it to the attention of his fellow English men and women, who might thereby be enabled to rebuild their shattered Church and nation.
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Ingram, Robert G. The Church of England, 1714–1783. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199644636.003.0003.
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This chapter surveys the history of the Church of England between the Hanoverian succession and the American Revolution. The religio-political questions that bedevilled the English nation during the 1530s remained live ones during the eighteenth century. What sort of Church should the Church of England be? What should the relation of Church to state be? What should constitute the Church’s doctrinal orthodoxy? Whom should the Church comprehend? What were the bounds of toleration? These questions had not been solved at the Glorious Revolution, so that the story of the eighteenth-century Church of England is the concluding chapter in the story of England’s long Reformation. What ultimately brought that particular story to a close was not Enlightenment secularism but the changes catalysed by war and the fear of relapse into seventeenth-century-like religious violence.
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Anderson, Michael, and Corinne Roughley. The Broad Patterns of Population Change. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198805830.003.0002.
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Compared with England, Scotland had slower population growth in every decade from 1851 to 2011. In the second half of the twentieth century growth was slower than in any other part of Western Europe. Within Scotland, there were marked differences in population change in different regions; only Lothian experienced growth in every half-century. Strathclyde, having grown fastest to 1911, slowed to 1961 then fell rapidly to 2011, a quite different pattern from any other major staple industry region of Europe. Scottish regional change was very different from England’s. Scotland had no region which at any time matched the growth of the English south-east. It had also no twentieth-century manufacturing region to compare with the English midlands. Scotland’s rural regions never matched the growth patterns of East Anglia and the English south-west.
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Patten, Eve. Ireland, Revolution, and the English Modernist Imagination. Oxford University PressOxford, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198869160.001.0001.
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Abstract This book asks how English authors of the early to mid-twentieth century responded to the nationalist revolution in neighbouring Ireland in their work and explores this response as an expression of anxieties about, and aspirations within, England itself. Drawing predominantly on novels of this period, but also on letters, travelogues, literary criticism, and memoir, it illustrates how Irish affairs provided a marginal but pervasive point of reference for a wide range of canonical authors in England, including Wyndham Lewis, Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, Graham Greene, and Evelyn Waugh, and for lesser-known figures such as Ethel Mannin, George Thomson, and T.H. White. The book surveys these and other incidental writers within the broad framework of literary modernism, an arc seen to run in temporal parallel to Ireland’s revolutionary trajectory from rebellion to independence. In this context, it addresses two distinct aspects of the Irish-English relationship as it features in the literature of the time: first, the uneasy recognition of a fundamental similarity between the two countries in terms of their potential for violent revolutionary instability, and second, the proleptic engagement of Irish events to prefigure, imaginatively, the potential course of England’s evolution from the Armistice to the Second World War. Tracing these effects, this book offers a topical renegotiation of the connections between Irish and English literary culture, nationalism, and political ideology, together with a new perspective on the Irish sources engaged by English literary modernism.
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Allen, Pauline, Kath Checkland, Valerie Moran, and Stephen Peckham, eds. Commissioning Healthcare in England. Policy Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447346111.001.0001.
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This book brings together selected research on commissioning healthcare in the English NHS carried out by national policy research unit in commissioning and the healthcare system (PRUComm) between 2011 and 2018. PRUComm is funded by the English Department of Health’s Policy Research Programme. The bookexplores the changes to commissioning in the English NHS quasi market introduced by the Health and Social Care Act 2012 (HSCA 2012). It focuses on threemain areas: first, the development and operation of the newly formed commissioning bodies named Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) which were supposed to increase clinical engagement; secondly, technical aspects of commissioning being the use of competition and cooperation by CCGs to commission care in the HSCA 2012 regulatory context encouraging competition,and the allocation of financial risk through contracts between commissioners and providers of care (including new forms of contract such as alliances); and thirdly the reorganisation of the commissioning of public health services.The research demonstrates that the HSCA 2012 has had the effect of fragmenting commissioning responsibilities and in the process impaired good governance and strong accountability of commissioners. It shows how the use of market mechanisms has declined despite the pro competition regulatory regime of the HSCA 2012, and that more cooperative processes are used at local level to reconfigure health services. It concludes that strategic planning and monitoring of services will always be essential for the English NHS, whether the term ‘commissioning’ is used to describe these activities or not in the future.
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Smith, Frederick E. Transnational Catholicism in Tudor England. Oxford University PressOxford, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192865991.001.0001.
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Abstract This is a book about the relationship between transnational mobility and the development of Tudor Catholicism. Almost two hundred Catholics felt compelled to exile themselves from England rather than conform with the religious reformations inaugurated by Henry VIII and Edward VI. This book explores how these émigrés’ physical mobility reconfigured their relationships with the men and women they left behind, and how it forced them to develop new relationships with individuals they encountered abroad. It analyses how the experiences of mobility and displacement catalysed a shift in their religious identities, in some ways broadening but in others narrowing their understandings of what it meant to be ‘Catholic’. And, it examines the role of these émigrés as agents of religious exchange, circulating new doctrinal and devotional ideas throughout western Europe and forging new connections between them. By focussing particularly upon those individuals who subsequently returned to their homeland during Mary I’s Catholic Counter-Reformation, this book also explores the lasting legacies of these émigrés’ displacement and mobility, both for the émigrés themselves as they grappled with the difficulties of re-integration, but also for the broader development of English Catholicism. In this way, this book deepens our understanding of the complex and sometimes contradictory ways in which exile could shape religio-political identities, but also underlines the importance of international mobility as a crucial factor in the development of English Catholicism and the wider European Catholic Church over the mid sixteenth century.
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Villani, Stefano. Making Italy Anglican. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197587737.001.0001.
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Making Italy Anglican is a study of the Italian translations of the Book of Common Prayer undertaken between 1608 and the early twentieth century. For almost three hundred years there were those in England who believed, in different and changing ways, that the distribution of the translation of the Book of Common Prayer could trigger a radical change in the Italian political and religious landscape. The aim of the Italian translation was to present the text to the Italian religious and political elite in the belief that the English liturgy embodied the essence of the Church of England. The beauty, harmony, and simplicity of the English liturgical text rendered into Italian were intended to demonstrate that the English church came closest to the apostolic model. The leitmotif running through the various incarnations of this project, above all at the beginning of the seventeenth century and in the nineteenth century, is the idea of promoting top-down reform, according to the model of the Church of England itself. These ventures mostly had a little real impact on Italian history. The story of this fruitless encounter helps us to better understand both the changing self-perception of the international role of the Church of England and the cross-cultural and religious relations between Britain and Italy.
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Palmer, Thomas. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198816652.003.0001.
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This Introduction briefly describes the work’s principal actors, namely the seventeenth-century Jansenists of Port-Royal and those contemporary English Protestant theologians committed to the defence of the episcopal Church of England, and its central intellectual themes, relating to the theology of grace and moral theology. It lays out the twofold aims of the work: in the first place, to provide a historical account of English knowledge of continental debates surrounding Jansenism in the seventeenth century; and, in the second, to explore the two very different theological sensibilities thus juxtaposed in a comparative perspective, of which the theme of moral rigorism constitutes the point of focus. The manner in which contested early modern labels are used in the text is explained in a note on terms.
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Guyer, Benjamin M. How the English Reformation was Named. Oxford University PressOxford, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192865724.001.0001.
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Abstract How the English Reformation was Named analyzes the shifting semantics of “reformation” in England between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries. Originally denoting the intended aim of church councils, “reformation” was subsequently redefined to denote violent revolt, and ultimately a series of past episodes in religious history. But despite referring to sixteenth-century religious change, the proper noun “English Reformation” entered the historical lexicon only during the British civil wars of the 1640s. Anglican apologists coined this term to defend the Church of England against proponents of the Scottish Reformation, an event that contemporaries singled out for its violence and illegality. Using their neologism to denote select events from the mid-Tudor era, Anglicans crafted a historical narrative that enabled them to present a pristine vision of the English past, one that they endeavored to preserve amidst civil war, regicide, and political oppression. With the restoration of the monarchy and the Church of England in 1660, apologetic narrative became historiographical habit and, eventually, historical certainty.
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Winkler, Emily A. Royal Responsibility in Anglo-Norman Historical Writing. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198812388.001.0001.
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It has long been established that the crisis of 1066 generated a florescence of historical writing in the first half of the twelfth century. This book presents a new perspective on previously unqueried matters: it investigates how historians’ individual motivations and assumptions produced changes in the kind of history written across the Conquest. It argues that responses to the Danish Conquest of 1016 and Norman Conquest of 1066 changed dramatically within two generations of the latter conquest. Repeated conquest could signal repeated failures and sin across the orders of society, yet early twelfth-century historians in England not only extract English kings and people from a history of failure, but also establish English kingship as a worthy office on a European scale. The book illuminates the consistent historical agendas of four historians: William of Malmesbury, Henry of Huntingdon, John of Worcester, and Geffrei Gaimar. In their narratives of England’s eleventh-century history, these twelfth-century historians expanded their approach to historical explanation to include individual responsibility and accountability within a framework of providential history, making substantial departures from their sources. These historians share a view of royal responsibility independent both of their sources (primarily the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle) and any political agenda that placed English and Norman allegiances in opposition. Although the accounts diverge widely in the interpretation of character, all four are concerned more with the effectiveness of England’s kings than with the legitimacy of their origins. Their new, shared view of royal responsibility represents a distinct phenomenon in England’s twelfth-century historiography.
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Davidson, Clifford, and Jennifer Alexander. The Early Art of Coventry, Stratford - Upon- Avon, Warwick, and Lesser Sites in Warwick - Shire: A Subject List of Extant and Lost Art Including Items ... Drama, Art, and Music Reference Series, 4). Western Michigan Univ Medieval, 1985.
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