IHR Tudor and Stuart Seminar

... the business of these courts and the people bringing these cases during the reign of Elizabeth I, providing new perspectives on law and litigation in the late Tudor period and highlighting the research potential of these legal records, made accessible through improved catalogue descriptions.

Abstract: In the past few years, tens of thousands of catalogue descriptions have been added to The National Archives’ online catalogue, describing litigation in the courts of Star Chamber, Requests, and more. This paper analyses these new descriptions to demonstrate what they can tell us about ...

Law and Litigation in the reign of Elizabeth I: new descriptions, new perspectives

Just a reminder about our seminar this afternoon:

Dr Daniel Gosling (TNA): 'Law and Litigation in the reign of Elizabeth I: new descriptions, new perspectives.'

Abstract below.

5.30pm, online or in person - please join us! Book via the link.

It's today! Do join us this afternoon, in person or online.

... Blessed Revolution of 1624, which flipped English foreign policy toward the Spanish monarchy and led to the abrogation of the 1604 Treaty of London and the return to a posture of war.

... life, Bacon returned to the family business of Protestant homily, for which the immediate religious and political context is the collapse of the Spanish match at the end of 1623, the summoning of the 1624 Parliament in February of that year, and the so-called ...

Abstract: This paper considers Francis Bacon's understudied Translation of Certaine Psalmes, dated in press to 1625 (yet already printed by the end of 1624) within the context of Stuart foreign policy in the 1620s. More particularly, the paper looks at how, at the end of his ...

"The Wicked daily doe enlarge their Bands": Francis Bacon's Translation of Certaine Psalmes, 1624-1625

Our next seminar is this coming Monday, 2 February, 5:30pm, on zoom and in person at the IHR.

Dr Samuel Zeitlin (UCL): "The Wicked daily doe enlarge their Bands": Francis Bacon's Translation of Certaine Psalmes, 1624-1625

Abstract below.

All welcome, book here:

early modern woodcut of an apothecary stirring a pot, with two customers approaching.

Next Thursday! @drhollyfletcher.bsky.social will be at @ihrscb.bsky.social to talk about 'The Fats of Life in the Early Modern World, 1500-1750: Matter in Multispecies Medicine'

Register here to attend this in-person event at @ihr.bsky.social:
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

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Final reminder about our seminar taking place this afternoon - sign up to attend either online or in person.

Just a reminder that our first seminar of the term is tomorrow at 5.30pm, in person or online. Booking at the link below. Do join us!

Update: all of this term's sessions can now be booked at the link below.

And a correction to the title of next Monday's paper, which is:

'Treasure Islands: Charles I, the English Empire, War, Death, and a Map'.

All welcome, we hope to see you there!

Oh, very sorry! Will correct in future posts.

16 March: Mark Wilson, ‘Certein Newes before Parliament: Foreign Policy, Parliament and Propaganda in 1576’

AND

Elvira Tamus @elviratamus.bsky.social, ‘Envoys in London: Connecting English interests and anti-Habsburg diplomacy in the context of European geopolitics, 1528-1540’.

16 February: Daniel Gosling @thegozfather.bsky.social, ‘Law and Litigation in the reign of Elizabeth I: new descriptions, new perspectives’.

2 March: Tim Reinke-Williams, ‘Xenophobia and Masculinity in English Jestbooks, c.1600-40’.

The rest of our programme for the term is:

2 February: Sam Zeitin, ‘"The Wicked daily doe enlarge their Bands": Francis Bacon's Translation of Certaine Psalmes, 1624-1625’.

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... and the Western Design. This research shows that early imperial strategy crossed boundaries between states in unexpected ways.

... followed one specific set of instructions, obtained by Prince Charles and the Duke of Buckingham in Spain in 1623. We propose that they facilitated ventures including Buckingham and Gustavus Adolphus's treaty for a new West India Company, Piet Heyn's capture of the Spanish silver fleet, ...

Tudor & Stuart History Seminar

NB online booking is not available yet but will be very soon here.

Abstract: What do you do if you want to steal the Spanish silver fleet, find a gold mine, and take over Jamaica? This paper argues that a variety of imperial projects in the seventeenth century, previously thought unconnected, ...

Happy New Year from the IHR Tudor & Stuart seminar! We will be back at the IHR a week today:

Monday 19 January, 5:30pm, in-person at the IHR, and on zoom:

Holly Brewer (Maryland) @earlymodjustice.bsky.social & Elizabeth Hines (Johns Hopkins): ‘How to Steal the Spanish Silver Fleet’.

All welcome!

As we can assume that the mills had a monopoly of grinding grain in the town, we can use the mill accounts to estimate the volume of grain passing through the town’s markets and being consumed in the town and so we can generate indirect figures of the scale of the harvest shortfall in these years.

... including the identity of their customers and their profitability to the earl. But it will be shown how the data can be used to generate figures for weekly, monthly and yearly volumes of grain passing through the mills. This gives us a new way of looking at the crisis of 1585-7 in the North....

... obscure.

The discovery of a decade’s worth of continuous mill accounts from the earl of Shrewsbury’s corn mills at Sheffield therefore opens up the subject. These yield just short of 17,000 individual transactions. The paper will describe a number of aspects of the mills, ...

Grain mills are something of a mystery in early modern England. A great deal is known about medieval mills, manorial accounts having formed a rich source for medieval economic historians such as Holt and Langdon. But there are no equivalents in early modern England and mills are correspondingly ...

Harvest variability in the 1580s: volume and prices at the mills of the earl of Shrewsbury in Sheffield (Yorkshire), 1578-1588

Just a reminder about our seminar tonight:
Richard Hoyle (Reading): 'Harvest variability in the 1580s: volume and prices at the mills of the earl of Shrewsbury in Sheffield (Yorkshire), 1578-1588'

Book here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

All welcome, in-person or online.

Abstract below.

especially on their treatments of the fall of Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, in 1599-1601, an event that exercises them not only in itself but as a symptom of a wider crisis of politics and society.

Abstract: Because the historian William Camden is studied by historians, and the poet and dramatist Samuel Daniel by literary critics, the intimate literary partnership between them has been missed. A grasp of it gives us fresh perspectives on the writings of both men, ...

History, The Playhouse, and the Fall of the Earl of Essex: The Literary Partnership of William Camden and Samuel Daniel

A reminder about our seminar tomorrow:

Blair Worden (Oxford): 'History, The Playhouse, and the Fall of the Earl of Essex: The Literary Partnership of William Camden and Samuel Daniel'.

5.30pm, all welcome, book to attend either online or in person here:

Just a reminder about our first seminar of the new academic year TODAY at 5.30. You can still book to attend in-person or online at the link below. All welcome!