English Historical Documents
English Historical Documents

Author: C.H. Williams

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-11-01

Total Pages: 1246

ISBN-13: 1040280358

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English Historical Documents is the most ambitious, impressive and comprehensive collection of documents on English history ever published. An authoritative work of primary evidence, each volume presents material with exemplary scholarly accuracy. Editorial comment is directed towards making sources intelligible rather than drawing conclusions from them. Full account has been taken of modern textual criticism. A general introduction to each volume portrays the character of the period under review and critical bibliographies have been added to assist further investigation. Documents collected include treaties, personal letters, statutes, military dispatches, diaries, declarations, newspaper articles, government and cabinet proceedings, orders, acts, sermons, pamphlets, agricultural instructions, charters, grants, guild regulations and voting records. Volumes are furnished with lavish extra apparatus including genealogical tables, lists of officials, chronologies, diagrams, graphs and maps.

Middle-Class Writing in Late Medieval London
Middle-Class Writing in Late Medieval London

Author: Malcolm Richardson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-10-06

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 131732398X

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Richardson explores how a powerful culture of writing was created in late medieval London, even though initially few inhabitants could actually write themselves. Whilst previous studies have tended to focus on middle-class literary reading patterns, this study examines writing skills separately both from reading skills and from literature.

Institutional Culture in Early Modern Society
Institutional Culture in Early Modern Society

Author: Anne Goldgar

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 393

ISBN-13: 9004138803

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This volume offers new insights into the self-perceptions, strategies, and rituals through which early modern institutions functioned. Its wide range and its comparative vision of the nature of institutions prompts a new interpretation of the role of institutions in society. With contributions by Florence Hsia, Ian Anders Gadd, Gayle K. Brunelle, Christopher Carlsmith, Susan E. Brown, Victor Morgan, Steve Hindle, Janelle Day Jenstad, Eve Rosenhaft, Reed Benhamou, James Shaw, Kristine Haugen.

The Crown and Its Records
The Crown and Its Records

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Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2023-10-23

Total Pages: 492

ISBN-13: 3110791463

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Archives are popularly seen as liminal, obscure spaces -- a perception far removed from the early modern reality. This examination of the central English archival system in the period before 1700 highlights the role played by the public records repositories in furnishing precedents for the constitutional struggle between Crown and Parliament. It traces the deployment of archival research in these controversies by three individuals who were at various points occupied with the keeping of records: Sir Robert Cotton, John Selden, and William Prynne. The book concludes by investigating the secretive State Paper Office, home of the arcana imperii, and its involvement in the government's intelligence network: notably the engagement of its most prominent Keeper Sir Thomas Wilson in judicial and political intrigue on behalf of the Crown.

The Great Tradition
The Great Tradition

Author: Anthony Brundage

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 9780804756860

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This book examines the prominent role played by constitutional history from 1870 to 1960 in the creation of a positive sense of identity for Britain and the United States.