John Leland on William, Lord Mountjoy’s Lost Manuscript of the Annals of the Mysterious John, Abbot of B.

2019 ◽  
pp. 243-260
Author(s):  
JAMES P. CARLEY
Keyword(s):  
John Leland

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. B. Patterson
Keyword(s):  
Accurate Information ◽  
John Bale ◽  
The Past ◽  
Reliable Evidence ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
John Leland ◽  
Monastic Libraries

Reformers in England saw losses as well as gains in the Reformation. John Leland and John Bale recorded the contents of monastic libraries. Matthew Parker recovered manuscripts from the past. The Elizabethan Society of Antiquaries, comprised of lawyers, scholars, and country gentlemen, developed methods of ascertaining accurate information about the past. William Camden, the author of Annals of Elizabeth (1615, Latin) and Britannia (1586, Latin), wrote a new kind of history: dispassionate, based on reliable evidence, and concerned with changes in society. Fifty years after Camden’s lifetime, Thomas Fuller followed methods and approaches that the antiquaries and their successors employed, while developing ideas very much his own.

Briton and Scythian: Tudor representations of Irish origins

1993 ◽  
Vol 28 (112) ◽  
pp. 390-408 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Hadfield
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
History Writing ◽  
Tudor England ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
Medieval Chronicles ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
Origin Myths ◽  
Origin Myth ◽  
John Leland

It is a commonplace of recent British historiography that in the early modern period a sophisticated and sceptical concept of writing history began to develop which involved, among other things, historians becoming significantly less credulous in their use of sources. Often the crucial break with medieval ‘chronicles’ is seen to have been brought about by the triumph of the exiled Italian humanist, Polydore Vergil, over the fervently nationalistic band of British historians and antiquarians led by John Leland, establishing that the Arthurian legends were no more than an origin myth. Jack Scarisbrick, for example, has argued that ‘early Tudor England did not produce a sudden renewal of Arthurianism … As the sixteenth century wore on, Geoffrey of Monmouth’s patriotic fantasies received increasingly short shrift from reputable historians.’ However, this comforting narrative of increasingly thorough and careful scholarship ignores the fact that there was a form of history writing in which the reliance upon origin myths such as the Arthurian legends and the ‘matter of Britain’ actually increased dramatically after the Reformation, namely English histories of Ireland.

John Leland Champe: A Founder of the Plains Conference

1961 ◽  
Vol 6 (12) ◽  
pp. 73-75
Author(s):  
Marjorie Lambert
Keyword(s):  
John Leland

John Leland Champe, 1895–1978

1980 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 268-271 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dale R. Henning
Keyword(s):  
John Leland

scholarly journals John Leland Champe, 1895-1978

1979 ◽  
Vol 81 (2) ◽  
pp. 338-341
Author(s):  
W. Raymond Wood
Keyword(s):  
John Leland

‘King Arthur’ and Cadbury Castle, Somerset

2006 ◽  
Vol 86 ◽  
pp. 227-253
Author(s):  
Dai Morgan Evans
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Original Description ◽  
King Arthur ◽  
Total Dependence ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
John Leland

The major excavations at Cadbury Castle, Somerset, which took place in the 1960s, owed their inspiration in part to the identification of the site as ‘Camelot’, thus forging an association with ‘King Arthur’. John Leland, the sixteenth-century antiquary, was the author of this identification and this paper considers how he might have arrived at this conclusion. Factors identified include the role in Tudor politics of ‘King Arthur’ and of the owners of the site – the Hastings family. Consideration of the evidence of later writers on the site, both national and local, shows their almost total dependence on Leland's original description, but the evidence of the Hereford Mappa Mundi suggests a new dimension. It is suggested that the interpretation of the archaeology of the site would benefit from a clearer understanding of John Leland's description and of Tudor and Stuart activity at the site.

Ultán the scribe

1993 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
pp. 127-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lawrence Nees
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Modern Art ◽  
Ninth Century ◽  
Eighth Century ◽  
Historical Writing ◽  
General Reference ◽  
John Leland

According to Aediluulf's poem De abbatibus, written in the early ninth century, the Irish priest Ultán was ‘a man called by a famous name’ (preclaro nomine dictus), who ‘could ornament books with fair marking’ (comptis qui potuit notis ornare libellos). Active during the first half of the eighth century in Aediluulf's otherwise unknown monastery located most probably in the area of what is today southern Scotland or northern England, Ultán has also won growing renown in modern art-historical writing, on the basis of Aediluulf's text, our only source for his life and work. Several of the older general reference works for artists include his name, Thieme-Becker terming him ‘Kalligraph und Miniator’, Bénézit ‘enlumineur et calligraphe’ and Bradley more cautiously ‘calligrapher’ while repeating the statement of the sixteenth-century antiquary John Leland, that Ultán was scriptor et pictor librorum optimus. In other words, these early sources agree in making Ultán not only a scribe but also a painter or illuminator.

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