BRST 196 Syllabus959 KB pdf file

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BRST196/HIST 254J
Keith Wrightson
Time and Place in Early Modern England
Yale in London: Spring 2015
This seminar explores perceptions of time and place in England, c. 1500-1800, and
their relationship to both personal and social identity. These issues are approached
using appropriate theoretical and substantive readings and both visual and textual
primary sources. Particular attention will be given to the use of visual images as
historical evidence. Specific issues addressed include the development of
cartography, chorography and antiquarianism; conventions of time reckoning and
the dating of events; perceptions of the life course; the creation of social memory
and historical narratives; representations of social place; agrarian change and the
transformation of the landscape; the impact of the Reformation on the calendar, the
landscape, and senses of the past; representations of previously unknown places
and peoples, and ‘iconic’ places and their significance. Primary sources for
discussion include maps and prospects; chorographical surveys; illustrated
antiquarian writings; almanacs; pictorial representations of notable events;
engravings; paintings (portraits; ‘country house portraits’; landscapes;
‘conversation pieces’; History Painting and ‘documentary’ works); memorials;
family histories; extracts from court records.
A course packet of secondary readings is available from Tyco, Broadway. The
syllabus contains URLs which will guide you to primary sources which can be
accessed online from Early English Books Online [EEBO] or other online collections
and downloaded. A number of additional primary sources will be posted in the
resources section of the Classes*v2 server. A list of suggestions for Student
Presentations is appended to this syllabus.
N.B. It is vital that you have Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client on your
computer so that you can access Yale Library resources from London.
Assessment will be based on:
Short paper (c.5pp.)
Class presentation (15-20 mins)
Longer paper (c.10pp.)
Participation
20% - due Week 7
20%
50% - due Week 14
10%
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Week 1: Jan 13 Introduction
The agenda; the syllabus; resources for study
Week 2: Jan 20 Establishing Themes: Time, Place, Memory & Identity
Discussion of introductory readings [90 pp.] from:
P. Connerton, How Societies Remember (2010 edit) Intro & ch.1 on ‘Social
Memory’, pp. 1-40
D. Massey. “Places and their Pasts”. History Workshop Journal 39 (1995), pp.
182-91 [JSTOR]
D. Woolf, The Social Circulation of the Past (2003) pp. 1-15, 271-4
N. Whyte, Inhabiting the Landscape (2009) pp. 1-9
P. Burke, Eyewitnessing. The Uses if Images as Historical Evidence (2001)
Intro, pp. 1-21 [Online Book via Orbis]
Week 3: Jan 27 Charting place and time: cartography
a) J.P. Hartley, “Maps, Knowledge and Power”, in D. Cosgrove & S. Daniels ed.
The Iconography of Landscape (1988) pp. 277-312.
R. Helgerson 'The Land Speaks' in his Forms of Nationhood: The Elizabethan
Writing of England (1992) pp. 107-139
b) John Speed, Prospect of the Most Famous Parts of the World…Asia, Africa,
Europe, America (1627)
Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain (1611)
We will use the 1631 edition including both works: looking
more closely at images 4, 49, 51, 65, 67, 87, 156
http://eebo.chadwyck.com/search/full_rec?SOURCE=pgimages.cfg&ACTION
=ByID&ID=V23145
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Christopher Saxton, Atlas of the Counties of England and Wales (1579)
EEBO:
http://eebo.chadwyck.com/search/full_rec?SOURCE=pgimages.cfg&ACTION=By
ID&ID=V27074
Look at Frontispiece: image 1
Braun & Hogenberg, Civitates Orbis Terrarum (1572) London Map
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Antique_map_of_London_by_Braun_%26_
Hogenberg.jpg
Wenceslaus Hollar: The ‘Long View’ of London (1647)
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1647_Long_view_of_London_From_Bankside__Wenceslaus_Hollar.jpg
John Strype Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster (1720).
http://www.hrionline.ac.uk/strype/
[see Westminster parishes: St Giles- in-the-Fields, Book 4, ch. 4]
Week 4: Feb 3 Discovering time through place: chorography & antiquarianism
a) D. Woolf, The Social Circulation of the Past (2003) pp. 141-82, 352-88.
b) William Camden, Britain, or a Chorographical Description trans. P.
Holland (1610) – ‘The Author to the Reader’ + pp. 240-257 (Wiltshire).
http://eebo.chadwyck.com/search/full_rec?SOURCE=pgimages.cfg&ACTION
=ByID&ID=V7564
Richard Carew, The Survey of Cornwall (1602), pp. 120-3 (Lesnewith
Hundred)
http://eebo.chadwyck.com/search/full_rec?SOURCE=pgimages.cfg&ACTION
=ByID&ID=V7891
William Dugdale, Antiquities of Warwickshire Illustrated (1656), pp. 297-303
(Warwick) & 521-2 (Shakespeare monument in Stratford-upon-Avon)
http://eebo.chadwyck.com/search/full_rec?SOURCE=pgimages.cfg&ACTION
=ByID&ID=V58176
Thomas Machell’s Queries (1676-7)
http://eebo.chadwyck.com/search/full_rec?SOURCE=pgimages.cfg&ACTION
=ByID&ID=V205918
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William Stukeley, Itinerarium Curiosum (1724) , Vol I pp. 175-6 (Old Sarum)
& 153-8 (Dorchester) + plates in Vol II (images 15-18, 30-32, 42-43)
http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?type=search&tabID=T001&qu
eryId=Locale%28en%2C%2C%29%3AFQE%3D%28BN%2CNone%2C7%29
T099861%24&sort=Author&searchType=AdvancedSearchForm&version=1.
0&userGroupName=29002&prodId=ECCO
Extracts from Antiquityes and Memoryes of the Parish of Myddle Written by
Richard Gough (1700) [prepared by KW] Classes*v2 Resources
Week 5: Feb 10 Shaping Time 1. Social & cultural conventions
a) P. A. Sorokin & R.K. Merton, “Social Time: a methodological & functional
analysis”, American Jnl of Sociology, 42. 5 (1937), pp. 615-629 [JSTOR]
D. Cressy, Bonfires and Bells (1989) ch. 2 (pp. 13-33)
P. Glennie & N. Thrift, Shaping the Day (2009), chs. 3-4 pp. 65-134
[Online book via Orbis]
b) ‘Dating statements from court depositions’ [prepared by KW] Classes*v2
Resources
George Naworth, A Newe Almanacke and Prognostication (1642)
http://eebo.chadwyck.com/search/full_rec?SOURCE=pgimages.cfg&ACTI
ON=ByID&ID=V199287
George Wharton, Calendarium Ecclesiasticum, or A New Almanack (1657)
http://eebo.chadwyck.com/search/full_rec?SOURCE=pgimages.cfg&ACTI
ON=ByID&ID=V105025
Pages from Thomas Trevilian’s Commonplace Book (1608): Folger
Shakespeare Library: months of June, July, August, October, November.
(Classes*v2 Resources)
Wenceslaus Hollar ‘The Four Seasons’ – Winter
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bd/Wenceslas_Holl
ar_-_Winter.jpg
William Hogarth, The Four Times of Day [YCBA 223B, C, 115, Sh-3, vol. IV
Obj # B1981.25 1424-7; online Lewis Walpole Digital Library:
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Morning:
http://images.library.yale.edu/walpoleweb/oneitem.asp?imageId=lwlpr
22246
Night:
http://images.library.yale.edu/walpoleweb/fullzoom.asp?imageid=lwlpr
22249
[Week 6: extended field trip to York – no class]
Week 7: Feb 24 Shaping Time II: Family Time and the Life Course
[Short Paper due end of week 7]
a) D. Woolf, The Social Circulation of the Past (2003) ch. 3 ‘The Cultivation
of Heredity’, pp. 74-98.
b) Picturing a Life: Sir Henry Unton’s memorial portrait [NPG 710] View online
http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw06456/SirHenry-Unton + for a navigable version
http://primary.naace.co.uk/activities/unton/portrait/bits/frames.htm
Family narratives from Richard Gough’s, Observations concerning the
Seates In Myddle (1701) [prepared by KW ] Classes*v2 Resources
Declensions:
Three life stories of the London Hanged from The Ordinary’s Account of
Newgate Prison, 1729. [prepared by KW] Classes*v2 Resources
William Hogarth: A Harlot’s Progress [available online from Lewis Walpole
Digital Collections]
http://images.library.yale.edu/walpoleweb/oneitem.asp?imageId=lwlpr22337
http://images.library.yale.edu/walpoleweb/oneitem.asp?imageId=lwlpr22338
http://images.library.yale.edu/walpoleweb/oneitem.asp?imageId=lwlpr22340
http://images.library.yale.edu/walpoleweb/oneitem.asp?imageId=lwlpr22341
http://images.library.yale.edu/walpoleweb/fullzoom.asp?imageid=lwlpr22237
http://images.library.yale.edu/walpoleweb/oneitem.asp?imageId=lwlpr22342
Week 8: Mar 3 Shaping Time III: Historical events and reference points
a) D. Woolf, The Social Circulation of the Past (2003) ch. 6 ‘Seeing the past’ pp.
183-202 + ‘Community Memory, Social Memory & History’, pp. 289-99.
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A. Fox, “Remembering the Past in Early Modern England”, TRHS, 6th ser., IX
(1999) pp. 233-256. [JSTOR]
b) An Allegory of the Tudor Succession (The Family of Henry VIII)
http://collections.britishart.yale.edu/vufind/Record/1666690
‘Deliverances’ of the Beleaguered Isle:
Samuel Ward, The Papists Powder Treason (1680 – originally 1621]
http://eebo.chadwyck.com/search/full_rec?SOURCE=pgimages.cfg&ACTION=ByID&
ID=V43040
Almanacs and defining historical time lines:
Thomas Trevilian’s Commonplace Book (1608): Folger Shakespeare
Library: “A briefe computation of the time” (Classes*v2 Resources)
George Naworth, A Newe Almanacke and Prognostication (1642) –
Image 2 “A Computation of Time”
http://eebo.chadwyck.com/search/full_rec?SOURCE=pgimages.cfg&ACTI
ON=ByID&ID=V199287
George Wharton, Calendarium Ecclesiasticum (1657) – Image 4 “Regall
Table” + Image 31ff “Gesta Britannorum”
http://eebo.chadwyck.com/search/full_rec?SOURCE=pgimages.cfg&ACTI
ON=ByID&ID=V105025
History Painting:
Benjamin West, Death of General Wolfe (1770)
http://www.gallery.ca/en/see/collections/artwork.php?mkey=5363
Week 9: Mar 10 Knowing your place I: elites and aspirants
a) T. Cooper, A Guide to Tudor and Jacobean Portraits (2008) 46pp.
T. Cooper, Citizen Portrait (2012) pp. 66-101 (35 pp)
b) M. Dewar ed., De Republica Anglorum by Sir Thomas Smith (Cambridge,
1982), pp. 57-9, 65-77, 130-35, 140-42. [the social order described]
Gillis van Tilborgh: The Tichborne Dole (1671)
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tichborne_dole.jpg
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Lady Ann Clifford’s ‘The Great Picture’ triptych
http://www.thehistoryblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/The-Great-PictureAnne-Clifford.jpg
[Week 10: Mar 16-22, Yale-in-London Spring Break]
Week 11: Mar 24 Knowing your place II: Plebeians
D. Solkin, “Joseph Wright & the subversive art of labour” Representations
83 (2003) [JSTOR]
K. Snell, “In and out of their place: the migrant poor in English art”, Rural
History 24 (2013) pp. 73-100. [Cambridge Journals Online]
b)
The urban poor:
Paul Sandby: London Cries YCBA Prints & Drawings
Girl with basket of oranges:
http://collections.britishart.yale.edu/vufind/Record/1665795
Last Dying Speech & Confession:
http://collections.britishart.yale.edu/vufind/Record/1665797
Any Kitchen Stuff?
http://collections.britishart.yale.edu/vufind/Record/1665774
A milk-maid:
http://collections.britishart.yale.edu/vufind/Record/1665779
‘My pretty little ginny tartars’:
http://collections.britishart.yale.edu/vufind/Record/1665773
Anon ‘The Curds & Whey Seller, Cheapside’ (c.1730)
http://collections.museumoflondon.org.uk/Online/object.aspx?objectID=
object-102258&start=0&rows=1
Rural labour:
George Lambert: ‘Landscape with Farmworkers’ (c.1735)
http://collections.britishart.yale.edu/vufind/Record/1671180
George Stubbs: ‘Reapers’ (1795)
http://collections.britishart.yale.edu/vufind/Record/1665380
Thomas Rowlandson: Labourers at Rest
http://collections.britishart.yale.edu/vufind/Record/1669992
The dignity of labour:
Joseph Wright of Derby: ‘The Blacksmith’s Shop’ (1770-1)
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http://collections.britishart.yale.edu/vufind/Record/1669279
Tho. Barker: ‘Man holding a Staff’ (1790-1800)
http://collections.britishart.yale.edu/vufind/Record/166[7358
Week 12: Mar 31 The Reformation of Time and Place
a) N. Whyte, Inhabiting the Landscape (2009) ch.2 ‘Religious
topographies’, pp. 19-56 [many illus.]
A. Walsham, The Reformation of the Landscape (2011) pp. 8-15 & ch. 2
‘Idols in the landscape’ pp. 80-152 [Online Book via Orbis]
D. Cressy, Bonfires and Bells. National Memory & the Protestant Calendar
(1989) pp. 1-12
b) R. Dodsworth & W. Dugdale, Monasticon Anglicanum, 3 vols. (1661-83
edn)
http://eebo.chadwyck.com/search/full_rec?SOURCE=pgimages.cfg&A
CTION=ByID&ID=13430036&VID=199616&PAGENO=1&RESULTCLICK=
N&FILE=../session/1414771359_6081&SEARCHSCREEN=CITATIONS&SE
ARCHCONFIG=var_spell.cfg
Title Page – image 2
Tree of St Benedict – image 21
Ruins of Finchale Priory – image 335
Ruins of Fountains Abbey – image 449
Torr Abbey converted to a house – image 1022
William Stukeley, Itinerarium Curiosum (1724) Vol 1, pp. 143-6
(Glastonbury Abbey + prospects of ruins)
http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?type=search&tabID=T0
01&queryId=Locale%28en%2C%2C%29%3AFQE%3D%28BN%2CNone%2
C7%29T099861%24&sort=Author&searchType=AdvancedSearchForm&ver
sion=1.0&userGroupName=29002&prodId=ECCO
John Wootton: Riders Pausing by the Ruins of Rievaulx Abbey , (c. 1745)
http://collections.britishart.yale.edu/vufind/Record/1665620
: Haycart Passing a Ruined Abbey (c. 1745).
http://collections.britishart.yale.edu/vufind/Record/1665609
Thomas Rowlandson, Visitors Inspecting an Abbey (undated, c. 1800).
http://collections.britishart.yale.edu/vufind/Record/1669954
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Week 13: Apr 7 Enclosure and the Landscape
a) M. Johnson, An Archaeology of Capitalism (1996), pp. 44-79
A. Wood, The Memory of the People (2013), pp. 188-200, 219-246
b) Manorial Map of Laxton by Mark Pierce (1635):
http://mssweb.nottingham.ac.uk/elearning/viewimage.asp?resource=Laxton&ref=a051032m&theme=1&view=image&page=1
[Bodleian Library original in color: ‘Bringing Laxton to Life’:
http://www2.odl.ox.ac.uk/gsdl/cgi-bin/library?e=q-000-00---0mapsxx01-00-0-0-0prompt-10---4----dtt--0-1l--1-en-50---20-about-Laxton--00001-0011-1isoZz-8859Zz-1-0&a=d&c=mapsxx01&cl=search&d=mapsxx001-aaa
Whatborough (Leicestershire) Map (1586) Classes*v2 Resources
[use in conjunction with Andy Wood pp. 223-4]
Edward Haytley, ‘The Montagu Family at Sandleford Priory (1744) See
http://huntingtonblogs.org/2013/03/an-economic-historian-plays-with-arthistory/ [click on picture].
Week 14: Apr 14 New Places
[Longer paper due end week 14 or by Mon Apr 20 at latest]
a) R. Ray & A. Rosenthal, “Britain and the World Beyond” in D. Bindman ed.
The History of British Art, 1600-1870 (2008), pp. 85-109
J.E. Crowley, Imperial Landscapes. Britain’s Global Visual Culture 1745
-1820 (2011) Into & ch. 1 (46pp)
b) Drawings of coasts & ports from the Journal of Edward Barlow (16421703) , from P. Fumerton, Unsettled 2006) Classes*v2 Resources
Willam Hodges:
‘Tahitian War Galleys in Matavai Bay’ YCBA
http://collections.britishart.yale.edu/vufind/Record/1671150
“Omai” YCBA
http://collections.britishart.yale.edu/vufind/Record/3622595
“Tomb of the Emperor Akbar” YCBA
http://collections.britishart.yale.edu/vufind/Record/3631668
‘The Fort at Bidjegur’ YCBA
http://collections.britishart.yale.edu/vufind/Record/1667434
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Iconic Places
This was intended as a final session and has been dropped because the field trip
leaves us with one less class. However, the topic may attract people as a possible
topic for a paper.
What do these places represent, and how did they became ‘iconic’? Here are some
relevant sources:
i) St Paul’s Cathedral: Old St Paul’s & the rebuilt St Paul’s:
James Howell, Londinopolis (1657) pp. 7-8, 312-15
http://eebo.chadwyck.com/search/full_rec?SOURCE=pgimages.cfg&ACTION
=ByID&ID=V95174
Jason Scott-Warren, Early Modern English Literature (2005) ch. 3
“Print in the Marketplace” [the book trade & St Paul’s]
J. Raven, The Business of Books (2007) [use index for St Paul’s]
John Earle, Micro-Cosmographie (1628) – No. 54.Pauls Walke
http://eebo.chadwyck.com/search/full_rec?SOURCE=pgimages.cfg&ACTION=ByID&
ID=V18694&FILE=&SEARCHSCREEN=param%28SEARCHSCREEN%29&VID=18694
&PAGENO=94&ZOOM=FIT&VIEWPORT=&SEARCHCONFIG=param%28SEARCHCON
FIG%29&DISPLAY=param%28DISPLAY%29&HIGHLIGHT_KEYWORD=undefined
Virtual Paul’s Cross website: vpcp.chass.ncsu.edu
Recreation of John Donne’s 1622 Sermon
Pamela Tudor-Craig Old St Paul’s. The Society of Antiquaries Diptych, 1616
(2004). YCBA reference library.
Vaughan Hart, Inigo Jones. The Architect of Kings (2011)
William Dugdale, History of St Paul’s Cathedral (1658) – illus. of monuments +
views and plans by W. Hollar
http://eebo.chadwyck.com/search/full_rec?SOURCE=pgimages.cfg&ACTION
=ByID&ID=V59862&FILE=&SEARCHSCREEN=param%28SEARCHSCREEN%29&VID
=59862&PAGENO=1&ZOOM=FIT&VIEWPORT=&SEARCHCONFIG=param%28SEAR
CHCONFIG%29&DISPLAY=param%28DISPLAY%29&HIGHLIGHT_KEYWORD=para
m%28HIGHLIGHT_KEYWORD%29
Wenceslaus Hollar: ‘Burning of Old St Paul’s in the Fire of London’
YCBA: http://collections.britishart.yale.edu/vufind/Record/3627520
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John Strype, Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster (1720)
www.hrionline.ac.uk/strype/ Book 3, ch. 8, p.141
James Thornhill: The Painted Hall, Royal Naval College, Greenwich
http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6044/6220501961_fe9f09d2cf_z.jpg
Canaletto: St Paul’s Cathedral (1754) YCBA
http://collections.britishart.yale.edu/vufind/Record/1666638
The Thames from the Terrace of Somerset House (1750)
http://collections.britishart.yale.edu/vufind/Record/1667663
ii) Stonehenge (& Avebury):
Rodney Legg ed. Stonehenge Antiquaries (1986) – a compilation of
contemporary antiquarian writings.
William Camden, Britain, or a Chorographical Description trans.
P. Holland (1610) – Images 147-9, pp. 251-4.
http://eebo.chadwyck.com/search/full_rec?SOURCE=pgimages.cfg&ACTION=ByID&
ID=V7564
John Speed, Prospect of the Most Famous Parts of the World…Asia (1627) and
Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain (1611) 1631 edition:
http://eebo.chadwyck.com/search/full_rec?SOURCE=pgimages.cfg&ACTION
=ByID&ID=V23145 Image 87 – map of Wiltshire, right side
William Stukeley, Stonehenge (1740) – 18thC Collections Online
http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/retrieve.do?sort=Author&inPS=true&prodId=ECCO
&userGroupName=29002&tabID=T001&bookId=0991200300&resultListType=RES
ULT_LIST&searchId=R1&searchType=AdvancedSearchForm&contentSet=ECCOArti
cles&showLOI=&docId=CW3303406046&docLevel=FASCIMILE&workId=CW10340
6045&relevancePageBatch=CW103406045&retrieveFormat=MULTIPAGE_DOCUME
NT&callistoContentSet=ECLL&docPage=article&hilite=y
William Stukeley, Abury (1743) – 18thC Collections Online
http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/retrieve.do?inPS=true&prodId=ECCO&userGroupN
ame=29002&tabID=T001&bookId=1732900300&resultListType=RESULT_LIST&co
ntentSet=ECCOArticles&showLOI=&docId=CB3331001231&docLevel=FASCIMILE&
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workId=CB131001230&relevancePageBatch=CB131001230&retrieveFormat=MUL
TIPAGE_DOCUMENT&callistoContentSet=ECLL&docPage=article&hilite=y
After John Constable, Stonehenge at Sunset (c. 1836).
http://collections.britishart.yale.edu/vufind/Record/1668887
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Time & Place in Early Modern England
Student Presentations: suggested topics
7. Family Time & the Life Course
Pregnancy portraits:
Portrait of a woman, probably Catherine Carey, Lady Knollys: YCBA
http://collections.britishart.yale.edu/vufind/Record/1666748
K.Hearn, “A Fatal Tertility? Elizabethan & Jacobethan Pregnancy Portraits”, Costume,
34 (2000)
P. Croft & K. Hearn, “’Only Matrimony maketh children to be certain..’: Two
Elizabethan Pregnancy Portraits”, British Art Journal , 3, 3 (2002)
Families in ‘Conversation pieces’:
YCBA Collection – search works of Arthur Devis
- Johan Zoffany: ‘The Drummond Family’
M. Postle, ‘The Conversation Piece’ in The History of British Art, 1600-1870, pp.178-9
(see also F. Ogee pp. 160-1)
Kate Retford, The art of domestic life, family portraiture in eighteenth-century
England (2006)
K. Retford.”From the Interior to Interiority: The Conversation Piece in Georgian
England”, Jnl of Design History, 20, 4 (2007)
Significant moments in lifecourse/family cycle: e.g.
Birth:
‘Two Ladies of the Cholmondely Family’ (online)
Marriage:
T. Cooper/R. Tittler on merchant couples
Death:
Sir Thomas Aston at the deathbed of his wife (online)
Braythwaite Bible (YCBA)
Benjamin West: ‘The Artist & his Family’ YCBA B1981.25.674 – birth of son;
elderly father; Quakers
Johan Zoffany: ‘The Gore Family with George, Earl Cowper’ YCBA
B1977.14.87 - marriage & allusion to background scandal
The painted life of Mary Ward (1585-1645), a Yorkshire recusant who dreamed of
founding an equivalent of the Society of Jesus for women. The life was painted
posthumously but probably in the seventeenth century, and is apparently the work
of several hands (presumably German). 50 paintings!
http://www.congregatiojesu.org/en/maryward_painted_life.asp#
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8. Historical events and reference points
Great voyages:
Baptista Boazio, Vera Descriptio Expeditionis Nauticae Francisci Draci
[Drake circumnavigation map, c.1587]
http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/9579023
Baptista Boazio, The Famous West Indian Voyage (1589)
http://collections.britishart.yale.edu/vufind/Record/2038532
The Plague: [illustrated broadsides/tracts on EEBO]
The Red Crosse (1625)
London’s Lord Have Mercy Upon Us (1665)
The Mourning Cross (1665)
The Great Fire of London:
John Strype, Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster (1720)
www.hrionline.ac.uk/strype/ Book I, ch. 28
Wenceslaus Hollar: ‘A True and Exact Prospect of ..London’.
Engraving B 1977.14. 1781.S
http://collections.britishart.yale.edu/vufind/Record/3627514
Wenceslaus Hollar, Another prospect of the sayd Citty c.1666
BAC 223B c.112 Sh 11 2F Print Room
unknown. ca. 1670. Great Fire of London. with Ludgate and Old St Pauls
http://collections.britishart.yale.edu/vufind/Record/1667417
Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg, The Great Fire of London (1797).
http://collections.britishart.yale.edu/vufind/Record/1667690.
The ‘Glorious Revolution’ of 1688:
James Thornhill: Painted Hall & Upper Hall : Old Royal Naval College,
Greenwich
Naval Battles:
Samuel Scott’s naval battle paintings 1740s
History Painting;
Benjamin West Battle of La Hogue (1778)
http://collections.britishart.yale.edu/vufind/Record/1670323
John S. Copley :- Death of the Earl of Chatham (1778)
http://collections.britishart.yale.edu/vufind/Record/1670291
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[catalogued as B. West]
9. Knowing your place I: elites and aspirants
Sets of Royal Portraits: e.g.
The Hornby Castle set of early Kings and Queens [National Portrait Gallery}
http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/set/346/The+Hornby+Castle+set+of+e
arly+Kings+and+Queens]
Thomas Trevilian’s Great Book: images of monarchs: Folger Shakespeare Library
http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/view/search?q=Trevilian&os=100&sort=Call_N
umber%2CAuthor%2CCD_Title%2CImprint
Ralph Gardiner, England’s Grievance Discovered…(1655) [EEBO through Orbis – click
through illustrations of monarchs]
Depiction of particular monarchs:
e.g. Henry VIII & his court (Holbein)
Elizabeth I
Charles I & his court (Anthony Van Dyck)
The ‘Country House Portrait’:
John Harris, The artist and the country house (1979)
N. Cooper, “Ranks, Manners & Display: The Gentlemanly House, 1500-1750”
TRHS 12 (2002)
Jan Siberechts: Wollaton Hall
http://collections.britishart.yale.edu/vufind/Record/166921
J. van der Vaardt: Bifrons Park
http://collections.britishart.yale.edu/vufind/Record/1668544
[talk to Matthew Hargreaves]
Anon., c. 1667. Llancerch, Denbighshire, Wales.
http://collections.britishart.yale.edu/vufind/Record/1667696
Britannia Illustrata (1720) by L. Knyff & J. Kip
YCBA DA660 .K56 1984 (LC) Oversize [or online via Orbis]
“Views of Country Seats” (1774-6) Paul Sandby & others.
YCBA DA 660 V44 1774+ Oversize
Provincial Portraiture (urban elites & gentry):
R. Tittler, The Face of the City. Civic Portraiture & Civic Identity (2007)
R. Tittler, Portraits, Painters & Publics…1540-1640 (2012)
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11. Knowing your place II: Plebeians
Marcellus Laroon (1653-1702) and the London poor:
‘Cryes of the city of London’ (1711 edit.)
YCBA: DA688 L37 1711+ Oversize
S. Shesgreen ed. Cries and Hawkers of London (1990) NJ 18 L297 1990B (LC+)
Oversize LSF]
The ubiquitous poor of London:
T. Hitchcock, Down and Out in Eighteenth-Century London (2005)
Examine Hogarth’s representations of the poor from background figures of
laboring people and beggars in any of his series of engravings :
R. Paulson, Hogarth’s Graphic Works, 2 vols (1970) + Lewis Walpole Library
See also his Sign for a paviour (c.1725).
http://collections.britishart.yale.edu/vufind/Record/1671163.
The rural poor sentimentalized:
Francis Wheatley: ‘Rustic Hours’ (1799)
‘Morning’: http://collections.britishart.yale.edu/vufind/Record/1668630
‘Noon’: http://collections.britishart.yale.edu/vufind/Record/1668628
‘Evening’: http://collections.britishart.yale.edu/vufind/Record/1668626
‘Night’: http://collections.britishart.yale.edu/vufind/Record/1668648
cf. Henry Walton: ‘The Market Girl’ (1776-7)
http://collections.britishart.yale.edu/vufind/Record/1665523
Thomas Rowlandson’s unsentimental depictions of rural labourers:
‘The Hedger and Ditcher’
http://collections.britishart.yale.edu/vufind/Record/1670046
‘Gypsy encampment’: [?? Gypsies]
http://collections.britishart.yale.edu/vufind/Record/1669953
‘Ploughing’:
http://collections.britishart.yale.edu/vufind/Record/1669964
cf. George Chinnery, Man Carrying Faggots (c. 1799)
http://collections.britishart.yale.edu/vufind/Record/1670271
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12. The Reformation of Place and Time
The transformation of parish church interiors:
Eamon Duffy, The Stripping of the Altars (1992 &2005)
Eamon Duffy, The Voices of Morebath (2001)
Iconoclasm:
J.R. Phillips, The Reformation of Images: Destruction of Art in England,
1535-1660 (1973)
Margaret Aston, England’s Iconoclasts (1988)
K. Thomas, “Art & Iconoclasm in Early Modern England”, in K. Fincham & P.
Lake eds. Religious Politics in Post-Reformation England (2006)
The iconography of the Royal Supremacy:
M. Aston, The King’s Bedpost: religion and iconography in a Tudor Group
Portrait (1993)
Frontispiece of Henry VIII’s ‘Great Bible’ (1539, 1540)
British Library Podcast:
http://www.bl.uk/whatson/podcasts/podcast95134.html
Religious art in the domestic environment:
Tessa Watt, Cheap Print & Popular Piety, 1550-1640 (1996)
Tara Hamling, “Guides to Godliness”, in M. Hunter ed. Printed Images in Early
Modern Britain (2010)
Tara Hamling, Decorating the Godly Household (2010)
The refurbishment of churches:
G. Parry, The Arts of the Anglican Counter-Reformation (2006)
K. Fincham & N. Tyacke, Altars Restored: The changing face of English
religious worship, 1547-1700 (2007)
Printed Images:
Tara Hamling, “The Printed Image” in T. Ayers ed. The History of British Art,
600-1600 (2008)
John N. King, Foxe’s ‘Booke of Martyrs’ & Early Modern Print Culture (2006)
Rogationtide: Perambulation of the Parish
A. Wood, The Memory of the People (2013) pp. 200-219
N. Whyte, Inhabiting the Landscape (2009) ch. 3.
H. Falvey & S. Hindle eds. This Little Commonwealth. Layston Parish
Memorandum Book (2003) [Peranbulation route in Layston]
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Preserving lost rituals:
J. T. Fowler ed., The Rites of Durham, Surtees Soc. 107 (1903)
A.I. Doyle, “William Claxton and the Durham Chronicles” in J.P. Carley &
C.G.C. Tite ed. Books and Collectors 1200-1730 (1997)
13. Enclosure and the Landscape
Art & agrarian change:
Hugh Prince, “Art and Agrarian Change, 1710-1815”, in D. Cosgrove & S.
Daniels ed. The Iconography of Landscape (1988) pp. 98-118.
Prospects of enclosed/improved landscapes in Britannia Illustrata (1720) by
L. Knyff & J. Kip: YCBA DA660 .K56 1984 (LC) Oversize [or online via
Orbis]
Landscape Parks & Gardens:
J. Franklin. “The Liberty of the Park” in R. Samuel ed. Patriotism. Vol III:
National Fictions (1989) pp. 141-55
T. Williamson, Polite Landscapes: Gardens & Society in Eighteenth-Century
England (1995)
J. Finch & K. Giles, ed., Estate Landscapes: design, improvement & power in the
post- medieval landscape (2007)
The ‘Picturesque’ Landscape:
William Gilpin, Hints to form the taste and regulate the judgment in
Sketching Landscape (1790) YCBA
William Gilpin, Observations relating chiefly to picturesque beauty
(1786) YCBA
Surveying:
A. McRea, God Speed the Plough. The Representation of Agrarian England,
1500-1660 (1996) ch. 6.
John Norden’s, The Surveyor’s Dialogue (1618) ed. M. Netzloff (2010) –
Probert, John. Survey and valuation of the several estates belonging to John
Kinchant Esqr. and Emma his wife (1764)
YCBA: http://collections.britishart.yale.edu/vufind/Record/2035529
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14. New Places
John White & Virginia:
Thomas Hariot, A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia (1590):
title page and illustrations by John White [PDF from KW]
Agostino Brunias & the Caribbean:
Kay D. Kriz, Slavery, Sugar & the Culture of Refinement (2008) ch 2
Search YCBA collections of Paintings and Prints and Drawings for Brunias –
many available.
Zoffany and India:
M. Postle ed. Johan Zoffany RA: Society Observed (2011)
M. Webster, Johan Zoffany, 1733-1810 (2011), Part 5, ‘India’
Search YCBA Prints & Drawings for Zoffany – many available
India:
Thomas & William Daniell, Oriental Scenery (1795-1807) – Available online via
Orbis.
Themes unaddressed in course:
Domestic space:
Hoskins, W. G. (1953) 'The Rebuilding of Rural England, 1570‐1640', Past & Present, 4
(1953), pp. 44‐59.
Barley M. W., The English Farmhouse and Cottage, (1961)
Machin, R. ‘The Great Rebuilding: A Reassessment’, Past & Present, Nov., 1977(77), pp.33‐
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Johnson, M. Housing Culture: Traditional Architecture in an English Landscape (1993)
Johnson, M. (1993b) ‘Rethinking the Great Rebuilding’, Oxford Journal of Archaeology,
Vol. 12, No.1, pp.117‐125
Johnson, M., An Archaeology of Capitalism (1996)
Lena C. Orlin, Locating Privacy in Tudor London (2007)
King, C. (2010) ‘’Closure’ and the Urban Great Rebuilding in Early Modern Norwich’, Post‐
Medieval Archaeology 44/1 (2010), pp. 54‐80
Gervase Markham, The English Housewife (1615) Descriptions of domestic tasks
Orbis Pictus Sensualium (1672 English edition) Illustrations [author J.A. Cornelius]
Randle Holme, The Academy of Armory (1688) Illustrations & descriptions of
objects.

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