The Face of the City: Civic Portraiture and Civic Identity in Early Modern England

2009 ◽  
Vol CXXIV (511) ◽  
pp. 1483-1483
Author(s):  
E. Salter
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Early Modern England ◽  
Civic Identity ◽  
The Face ◽  
The City

Rethinking Iconoclasm in Early Modern England: the Case of Cheapside Cross

2000 ◽  
Vol 4 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 379-404 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joel Budd
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Early Modern England ◽  
Traditional Religion ◽  
Traditional Beliefs ◽  
Beliefs And Practices ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
Complex Variety ◽  
City Of London ◽  
The City

AbstractProtestant iconoclasm has generally been understood as an assault on the beliefs and practices of traditional religion. This article challenges that understanding through a detailed study of Cheapside Cross, a large monument that was repeatedly attacked by iconoclasts in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It draws on contemporary pamphlets and the manuscripts records of the City of London to reveal the complex variety of associations that Cheapside Cross acquired before and during the Reformation era. It argues that perceptions of the monument were shaped not only by its iconography but also by its involvement in ceremonies and rituals, including royal coronation processions. The iconoclastic attacks on Cheapside Cross should be interpreted not merely as a challenge to traditional beliefs but as attempts to restructure the monument's associations. The paper concludes that attacks on other images may be understood in a similar manner.

scholarly journals The decline of guilds and their monopoly in English provincial towns, with particular reference to Exeter

Urban History ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 443-463 ◽  
Author(s):  
MASARU YONEYAMA
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Early Modern England ◽  
City Government ◽  
Royal Authority ◽  
Craft Guilds ◽  
The City

ABSTRACTThis article examines the decline of the craft guilds in early modern England by way of a case-study of the Tuckers’ Company in Exeter. From the 1980s, this case figured prominently in the historiographical debate concerning guild decline; however, it has not been examined recently. The current study reveals the Tuckers’ Company is not a case of decline in guild membership so much as a case of the loss of guild monopoly and a concomitant transition to charitable functions. On the basis of empirical sources, this study also reveals the mechanisms and context of this transformation in the post-Civil War politics of the city of Exeter. Specific attention is given to first, the decline of royal authority bolstering the guild against the city government and secondly, the shift of power in the guild with the ascendance of the merchant fullers. Finally, the historiographical implications of the article's findings are discussed.

scholarly journals Lisbon, new Rome and emporium: comparing an early modern imperial capital, 1550–1750

Urban History ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 604-621
Author(s):  
SAÚL MARTÍNEZ BERMEJO
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Civic Identity ◽  
Political Status ◽  
Imperial Capital ◽  
The City

ABSTRACT:Early modern European capitals competed to demonstrate their imperial status, and contemporary urban praise often drew comparisons between them, situating these cities within a shifting hierarchy. Authors frequently combined actual perceptions of cities with metaphors of a New Rome and other classical motifs. This article explores how various writers asserted Lisbon's greatness and civic identity within this shared comparative European discourse. More particularly, it shows how they defended its changing political status as a capital while also developing a strong commercial discourse that centred on the city as an emporium. Views and descriptions of Lisbon and its port paralleled contemporary descriptions of London in particular, as both cities were increasingly defined as paradigms of imperial commerce.

A doctor's dilemma: the case of William Harvey's mentally retarded nephew

1989 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 569-572 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Neugebauer
Keyword(s):  
Social Norms ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Clinical Status ◽  
Economic Security ◽  
Early Modern England ◽  
Mentally Disabled ◽  
Clinical Observations ◽  
The Face ◽  
History Of ◽  
Diagnostic Label

SynopsisIn June 1637 William Harvey petitioned the Court of Wards and Liveries, a legal incompetency court in early modern England, for a grant of the custody of his mentally disabled nephew, William Fowke. ‘Idiocy’ and ‘lunacy’ were the two medico-legal categories for insanity used by the Court and Harvey requested that his nephew be inspected for idiocy. However, the legal and administrative history of the Court indicates that in the 1630s idiocy (but not lunacy) grants were prejudicial to the assets and economic security of retarded persons. Since petitioners' wishes, more than clinical status, usually determined the diagnostic label assigned to referred individuals, idiocy grants were not sought by persons of some social standing. Harvey's idiocy referral probably reflects his allegiance to his own clinical observations in the face of opposing social norms and family advantage.

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