In 1538 pilgrimage to all shrines was outlawed in England, and pilgrimages to English cathedrals ... more In 1538 pilgrimage to all shrines was outlawed in England, and pilgrimages to English cathedrals were not revived until the second half of the nineteenth century. This chapter examines that three-century gap, suggesting that attempts to hunt down faint traces in the hope of finding surviving traditions of pilgrimage or the continued veneration of former cultic objects such as shrine bases are chasing a mirage. Instead, the chapter offers a history of visiting English cathedrals from the sixteenth-century Reformation to the early nineteenth century, suggesting that there were four types of visitors: the tomb hunter, the history seeker, the musical aficionado, and the architectural critic. Nevertheless, it is important to put such visiting in the context of other reasons to attend a cathedral, including for worship, as a litigant in a consistory court, and for recreation, and to consider visiting in terms of the diverse and changing functions of a cathedral, rather than in essentialis...
1. Introducing the 1630s: questions of parliaments, peace and pressure points - Julie Sanders and... more 1. Introducing the 1630s: questions of parliaments, peace and pressure points - Julie Sanders and Ian Atherton 2. Force, love and authority in Caroline political culture - Malcolm Smuts 3. The image of Charles I as a Roman emperor - John Peacock 4. 'From his Matie to me with his awin hand': the King's correspondence during the period of personal rule - Sarah Poynting 5. Henrietta Maria in the 1630s: perspectives on the role of consort queens in ancien regime courts - Caroline Hibbard 6. 'The faction of the flesh': orientalism and the Caroline masque - James Knowles 7. Buried alive: Thomas May's 1631 - Antigone Karen Britland 8. Placing Caroline politics on the professional comic stage - Matthew Steggle 9. Stigmatizing Prynne: seditious libel, political satire and the construction of opposition - Andrew McRae 10. Coteries, complications and the question of female agency - Jerome de Groot
... himself in such high regard: two documents surviving in the Lincolnshire Archive Office one... more ... himself in such high regard: two documents surviving in the Lincolnshire Archive Office one ... Legates called for new Apostles, the second coming of Elijah, in order to re ... anti-Trinitarian heretics, one suspects that his numerous, vehement denunciations of early Christian villains ...
... Page 9. FOR BAT, MIM, AND WINDY WHO DIDN'T MAKE IT FILE COPY DO NOT REMO... more ... Page 9. FOR BAT, MIM, AND WINDY WHO DIDN'T MAKE IT FILE COPY DO NOT REMOVE Page 10. Page 11. ... The old-style or Julian calendar has been retained, except that the new year is taken as beginning on i January, not 25 March. ...
Abstract While all cathedrals endured bouts of iconoclasm in the English civil wars, and many end... more Abstract While all cathedrals endured bouts of iconoclasm in the English civil wars, and many endured military attack, Lichfield suffered more than others, besieged twice in 1643 and for a third time in 1646. An eyewitness account of the first two sieges, in March and April 1643, written by the dean, Griffith Higgs, has been overlooked by historians because it is written in Latin. Translated for the first time here, it allows more detailed analysis not only of the 1643 the sieges, but also of the iconoclasm that the cathedral endured at the hands of the Parliament's troops after the first siege. Like other eyewitness accounts of attacks on cathedrals in 1642–3, it provides an insight into Royalist attitudes at the beginning of the war, as well as a means of assessing post-Restoration claims about the extent of damage and desecration at the hands of rebellious Parliamentarians.
Twentieth-century practices of battlefield preservation construct war graves as sites of memory a... more Twentieth-century practices of battlefield preservation construct war graves as sites of memory and continuing commemoration. Such ideas, though they have led archaeologists in a largely fruitless hunt for mass graves, should not be read back into the seventeenth century. Hitherto, little attention has been paid to the practices of battlefield burial, despite the suggestion that the civil wars were proportionately the bloodiest conflict in English history. This chapter analyses the evidence for the treatment of the dead of the civil wars, engaging with debates about the nature and preservation of civil-war battlefields, and the social memory of the civil wars in the mid and later seventeenth century. It concludes that ordinary civil-war soldiers were typically excluded from parish registers as a sign that they were branded as social outcasts in death.
... The body of John Talbot, earl of Shrewsbury, killed at Castillon in south-west France (1453) ... more ... The body of John Talbot, earl of Shrewsbury, killed at Castillon in south-west France (1453) was recovered to Whitchurch in Shropshire ... In concentrating on King Billy's wound the memorialization of an early-modern battle was once again personalized and inscribed on the body. ...
In 1538 pilgrimage to all shrines was outlawed in England, and pilgrimages to English cathedrals ... more In 1538 pilgrimage to all shrines was outlawed in England, and pilgrimages to English cathedrals were not revived until the second half of the nineteenth century. This chapter examines that three-century gap, suggesting that attempts to hunt down faint traces in the hope of finding surviving traditions of pilgrimage or the continued veneration of former cultic objects such as shrine bases are chasing a mirage. Instead, the chapter offers a history of visiting English cathedrals from the sixteenth-century Reformation to the early nineteenth century, suggesting that there were four types of visitors: the tomb hunter, the history seeker, the musical aficionado, and the architectural critic. Nevertheless, it is important to put such visiting in the context of other reasons to attend a cathedral, including for worship, as a litigant in a consistory court, and for recreation, and to consider visiting in terms of the diverse and changing functions of a cathedral, rather than in essentialis...
1. Introducing the 1630s: questions of parliaments, peace and pressure points - Julie Sanders and... more 1. Introducing the 1630s: questions of parliaments, peace and pressure points - Julie Sanders and Ian Atherton 2. Force, love and authority in Caroline political culture - Malcolm Smuts 3. The image of Charles I as a Roman emperor - John Peacock 4. 'From his Matie to me with his awin hand': the King's correspondence during the period of personal rule - Sarah Poynting 5. Henrietta Maria in the 1630s: perspectives on the role of consort queens in ancien regime courts - Caroline Hibbard 6. 'The faction of the flesh': orientalism and the Caroline masque - James Knowles 7. Buried alive: Thomas May's 1631 - Antigone Karen Britland 8. Placing Caroline politics on the professional comic stage - Matthew Steggle 9. Stigmatizing Prynne: seditious libel, political satire and the construction of opposition - Andrew McRae 10. Coteries, complications and the question of female agency - Jerome de Groot
... himself in such high regard: two documents surviving in the Lincolnshire Archive Office one... more ... himself in such high regard: two documents surviving in the Lincolnshire Archive Office one ... Legates called for new Apostles, the second coming of Elijah, in order to re ... anti-Trinitarian heretics, one suspects that his numerous, vehement denunciations of early Christian villains ...
... Page 9. FOR BAT, MIM, AND WINDY WHO DIDN'T MAKE IT FILE COPY DO NOT REMO... more ... Page 9. FOR BAT, MIM, AND WINDY WHO DIDN'T MAKE IT FILE COPY DO NOT REMOVE Page 10. Page 11. ... The old-style or Julian calendar has been retained, except that the new year is taken as beginning on i January, not 25 March. ...
Abstract While all cathedrals endured bouts of iconoclasm in the English civil wars, and many end... more Abstract While all cathedrals endured bouts of iconoclasm in the English civil wars, and many endured military attack, Lichfield suffered more than others, besieged twice in 1643 and for a third time in 1646. An eyewitness account of the first two sieges, in March and April 1643, written by the dean, Griffith Higgs, has been overlooked by historians because it is written in Latin. Translated for the first time here, it allows more detailed analysis not only of the 1643 the sieges, but also of the iconoclasm that the cathedral endured at the hands of the Parliament's troops after the first siege. Like other eyewitness accounts of attacks on cathedrals in 1642–3, it provides an insight into Royalist attitudes at the beginning of the war, as well as a means of assessing post-Restoration claims about the extent of damage and desecration at the hands of rebellious Parliamentarians.
Twentieth-century practices of battlefield preservation construct war graves as sites of memory a... more Twentieth-century practices of battlefield preservation construct war graves as sites of memory and continuing commemoration. Such ideas, though they have led archaeologists in a largely fruitless hunt for mass graves, should not be read back into the seventeenth century. Hitherto, little attention has been paid to the practices of battlefield burial, despite the suggestion that the civil wars were proportionately the bloodiest conflict in English history. This chapter analyses the evidence for the treatment of the dead of the civil wars, engaging with debates about the nature and preservation of civil-war battlefields, and the social memory of the civil wars in the mid and later seventeenth century. It concludes that ordinary civil-war soldiers were typically excluded from parish registers as a sign that they were branded as social outcasts in death.
... The body of John Talbot, earl of Shrewsbury, killed at Castillon in south-west France (1453) ... more ... The body of John Talbot, earl of Shrewsbury, killed at Castillon in south-west France (1453) was recovered to Whitchurch in Shropshire ... In concentrating on King Billy's wound the memorialization of an early-modern battle was once again personalized and inscribed on the body. ...
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