Joan Rees. Samuel Daniel. A Critical and Biographical Study. Liverpool University Press, 1964. xiii+184 pp. 35s.

1965 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-163
Author(s):  
Laurence Michel
Keyword(s):  
Samuel Daniel ◽  
Biographical Study

Samuel Daniel. A Critical and Biographical Study

1966 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 103
Author(s):  
Patricia Thomson ◽  
Joan Rees
Keyword(s):  
Samuel Daniel ◽  
Biographical Study

Samuel Daniel: A Critical and Biographical Study. Joan Rees

1965 ◽  
Vol 63 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-160
Author(s):  
Rudolf Gottfried
Keyword(s):  
Samuel Daniel ◽  
Biographical Study

Devolution and the Civil Service: A Biographical Study

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott L. Greer ◽  
Holly Jarman ◽  
Andrew Azorsky
Keyword(s):  
Civil Service ◽  
Biographical Study

Simon V of Montfort and Baronial Government, 1195-1218

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
G.E.M. Lippiatt
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Political Development ◽  
Public Order ◽  
Violent Death ◽  
Documentary Evidence ◽  
Southern France ◽  
Archival Material ◽  
Fourth Crusade ◽  
High Middle Ages ◽  
Biographical Study

Dissenter from the Fourth Crusade, disseised earl of Leicester, leader of the Albigensian Crusade, prince of southern France: Simon of Montfort led a remarkable career of ascent from mid-level French baron to semi-independent count before his violent death before the walls of Toulouse in 1218. Through the vehicle of the crusade, Simon cultivated autonomous power in the liminal space between competing royal lordships in southern France in order to build his own principality. This first English biographical study of his life examines the ways in which Simon succeeded and failed in developing this independence in France, England, the Midi, and on campaign to Jerusalem. Simon’s familial, social, and intellectual connexions shaped his conceptions of political order, which he then implemented in his conquests. By analysing contemporary narrative, scholastic, and documentary evidence—including a wealth of archival material—this book argues that Simon’s career demonstrates the vitality of baronial independence in the High Middle Ages, despite the emergence of centralised royal bureaucracies. More importantly, Simon’s experience shows that barons themselves adopted methods of government that reflected a concern for accountability, public order, and contemporary reform ideals. This study therefore marks an important entry in the debate about baronial responsibility in medieval political development, as well as providing the most complete modern account of the life of this important but oft-overlooked crusader.

Pocket Maps and Public Poetry in the English Renaissance

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Lecky
Keyword(s):  
Edmund Spenser ◽  
Ben Jonson ◽  
English Renaissance ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
William Davenant ◽  
Samuel Daniel ◽  
The Government ◽  
Political Agents ◽  
Cheap Print ◽  
Print Industry

If maps are instruments of power, then it matters that in Renaissance Britain they were often found in the pockets of ordinary people. Pocket Maps and Public Poetry in the English Renaissance demonstrates how early modern British poets paid by the state adapted inclusive modes of nationhood charted by inexpensive, small-format maps. It places chapbooks (“cheapbooks”) by Edmund Spenser, Samuel Daniel, Ben Jonson, William Davenant, and John Milton into conversation with the portable cartography circulating in the same retail print industry. Domestic pocket maps were designed for heavy use by a broad readership that included those on the fringes of literacy. The era’s de facto laureates all banked their success as writers appealing to this burgeoning market share by drawing the nation as the property of the commonwealth rather than the Crown. This book investigates the accessible world of small-format cartography as it emerges in the texts of the poets raised in the expansive public sphere in which pocket maps flourished. It works at the intersections of space, place, and national identity to reveal the geographical imaginary shaping the flourishing business of cheap print. Its placement of poetic economies within mainstream systems of trade also demonstrates how cartography and poetry worked together to mobilize average consumers as political agents. This everyday form of geographic poiesis was also a strong platform for poets writing for monarchs and magistrates when their visions of the nation ran counter to the interests of the government.

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