A Second Elizabethan Journal V2

A Second Elizabethan Journal V2

Author: G.B. Harrison

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-08

Total Pages: 497

ISBN-13: 1136355642

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First Published in 1999. This is Volume II of a collection of Elizabethan and Jacobean Journals from 1595 to 1598 and records 'those things most talked about during those years'.


The Reign of Elizabeth I

The Reign of Elizabeth I

Author: John Alexander Guy

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1995-09-07

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 0521443415

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This book is about the politics and political culture of the 'last decade' of the reign of Elizabeth I, in effect the years 1585 to 1603. It argues that this period was so distinctive that it amounted to the second of two 'reigns'. It also invites readers, at times provocatively, to take a critical look at the declining Virgin Queen. Many teachers and their students have failed to consider the 'last decade' in its own right, or have ignored it, having begun their accounts in 1558 and struggled on to the defeat of the Armada in 1588. Only two major political surveys have been attempted since 1926. Both consider mainly the war with Spain and the politics of war, and each allots inadequate space to Crown patronage, puritanism and religion, society and the economy, political thought, and literature and drama. This book, written by some of the leading scholars of their generation, will be indispensable to a fuller understanding of the age.


Making Magic in Elizabethan England

Making Magic in Elizabethan England

Author: Frank Klaassen

Publisher: Penn State Press

Published: 2019-12-11

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 0271085177

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This volume presents editions of two fascinating anonymous and untitled manuscripts of magic produced in Elizabethan England: the Antiphoner Notebook and the Boxgrove Manual. Frank Klaassen uses these texts, which he argues are representative of the overwhelming majority of magical practitioners, to explain how magic changed during this period and why these developments were crucial to the formation of modern magic. The Boxgrove Manual is a work of learned ritual magic that synthesizes material from Henry Cornelius Agrippa, the Fourth Book of Occult Philosophy, Heptameron, and various medieval conjuring works. The Antiphoner Notebook concerns the common magic of treasure hunting, healing, and protection, blending medieval conjuring and charm literature with materials drawn from Reginald Scot’s famous anti-magic work, Discoverie of Witchcraft. Klaassen painstakingly traces how the scribes who created these two manuscripts adapted and transformed their original sources. In so doing, he demonstrates the varied and subtle ways in which the Renaissance, the Reformation, new currents in science, the birth of printing, and vernacularization changed the practice of magic. Illuminating the processes by which two sixteenth-century English scribes went about making a book of magic, this volume provides insight into the wider intellectual culture surrounding the practice of magic in the early modern period.


A Second Jacobean Journal V5

A Second Jacobean Journal V5

Author: Harrison

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-08

Total Pages: 293

ISBN-13: 1136356134

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First published in 1958. This is the final Volume V of a collection of Elizabethan and Jacobean journals from 1591 to and 1610 and includes an Elizabethan journal, being a record of those things most talked of during the years 1607–1610.


Daily Life in Elizabethan England

Daily Life in Elizabethan England

Author: Jeffrey L. Forgeng

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2009-11-19

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13:

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This book offers an experiential perspective on the lives of Elizabethans—how they worked, ate, and played—with hands-on examples that include authentic music, recipes, and games of the period. Daily Life in Elizabethan England: Second Edition offers a fresh look at Elizabethan life from the perspective of the people who actually lived it. With an abundance of updates based on the most current research, this second edition provides an engaging—and sometimes surprising—picture of what it was like to live during this distant time. Readers will learn, for example, that Elizabethans were diligent recyclers, composting kitchen waste and collecting old rags for papermaking. They will discover that Elizabethans averaged less than 2 inches shorter than their modern British counterparts, and, in a surprising echo of our own age, that many Elizabethan city dwellers relied on carryout meals—albeit because they lacked kitchen facilities. What further sets the book apart is its "hands-on" approach to the past with the inclusion of actual music, games, recipes, and clothing patterns based on primary sources.


Elizabethan and Jacobean Journals, 1591-1610

Elizabethan and Jacobean Journals, 1591-1610

Author: George Bagshawe Harrison

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 1999-08-19

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13: 9780415221436

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This set provides a detailed and intimate account of the Elizabethan and Jacobean World picture. The volumes vividly convey life as it was in the days of Shakespeare; King James; the first voyage to the West Indies; the Great Plague of 1603; the Gunpowder Plot; the Civil War, and the first impact of Galileo's discoveries. In compiling these volumes, G.B. Harrison undertook a massive trawl of original sources of British social and political history of the period. Each journal contains a chronology of key events of the period, unfolding as they would for contemporaries. This rare panorama of one of England's most colourful periods in history provides an essential background for enlightened reading of Elizabethan and Jacobean literature, offering as it does, crucial insights into influences affecting the literature and attitudes of the time.


A Last Elizabethan Journal V3

A Last Elizabethan Journal V3

Author: G.B. Harrison

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-08

Total Pages: 419

ISBN-13: 1136355928

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First Published in 1999. This is Volume III of a collection of Elizabethan and Jacobean journals from 1591 to and 1610 and includes an Elizabethan journal, being a record of those things most talked of during the years 1599–1603.


An Elizabethan Journal V1

An Elizabethan Journal V1

Author: G.B Harrison

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-08

Total Pages: 435

ISBN-13: 1136355294

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First Published in 1999. This is Volume I of a collection of Elizabethan and Jacobean journals from 1591 to and 1610 and includes an Elizabethan journal, being a record of those things most talked of during the years 1591–1594.


The Reign and Life of Queen Elizabeth I

The Reign and Life of Queen Elizabeth I

Author: Carole Levin

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-04-23

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 3030930092

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This textbook provides an overview of the long reign of Elizabeth I (1558–1603), a highly significant female ruler in a time of great change. It offers an accessible yet detailed survey of the events of her life and reign, followed by thematic chapters exploring key aspects of her time in power and the wider context of politics, culture and society in early modern England. Topics covered range from the composition of the queen's Privy Council; the 'Other' in Elizabethan England; assassination attempts; friendship; entertainment; and dreams. Gathering a great deal of cutting-edge and original research from one of the foremost scholars of Elizabeth's reign, this book is an essential companion for students and a crucial reference work for researchers.