P. J. P. Goldberg
- Published in print:
- 1992
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198201540
- eISBN:
- 9780191674938
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198201540.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Medieval History, Economic History
This is an innovative analysis of the relationship between women's economic opportunity and marriage in the 14th and 15th centuries. It is based on an intensive study of York and Yorkshire, but also ...
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This is an innovative analysis of the relationship between women's economic opportunity and marriage in the 14th and 15th centuries. It is based on an intensive study of York and Yorkshire, but also utilizes evidence from other parts of England and continental Europe. The book explores the role of women in the economy and the part that marriage played in their lives. Importantly, it challenges the Wrigley and Schofield thesis of nuptiality: the analysis of the demography of marriage demonstrates that in late medieval Yorkshire, women participated strongly in the labour force, deferring marriage or avoiding it entirely.Less
This is an innovative analysis of the relationship between women's economic opportunity and marriage in the 14th and 15th centuries. It is based on an intensive study of York and Yorkshire, but also utilizes evidence from other parts of England and continental Europe. The book explores the role of women in the economy and the part that marriage played in their lives. Importantly, it challenges the Wrigley and Schofield thesis of nuptiality: the analysis of the demography of marriage demonstrates that in late medieval Yorkshire, women participated strongly in the labour force, deferring marriage or avoiding it entirely.
David Manning
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195182392
- eISBN:
- 9780199851485
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195182392.003.0037
- Subject:
- Music, History, Western
The folk tunes collection in this chapter differs from most of those hitherto printed in the Folk-Song Journal in that, while former collections have been gathered from one county, the present tunes ...
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The folk tunes collection in this chapter differs from most of those hitherto printed in the Folk-Song Journal in that, while former collections have been gathered from one county, the present tunes represent no less than seven: Essex, Norfolk, Sussex, Wiltshire, Yorkshire, Kent, and even London. It is not suggested that the tunes grouped under the counties are their exclusive property; indeed, the more wonderful fact elicited from the search for folk songs is that the same tune may be heard, with hardly any variation, in Norfolk, Sussex, or Yorkshire. This proves more than anything the fundamental character of the genuine folk song. It will be noticed that a large proportion of the tunes in this collection are modal in character—Dorian, Aeolian, or Mixolydian. The chapter suggests that the Mixolydian and Dorian tunes are more characteristic of agricultural districts, while Aeolian tunes belong more to towns, and to trades such as fishing and cobbling.Less
The folk tunes collection in this chapter differs from most of those hitherto printed in the Folk-Song Journal in that, while former collections have been gathered from one county, the present tunes represent no less than seven: Essex, Norfolk, Sussex, Wiltshire, Yorkshire, Kent, and even London. It is not suggested that the tunes grouped under the counties are their exclusive property; indeed, the more wonderful fact elicited from the search for folk songs is that the same tune may be heard, with hardly any variation, in Norfolk, Sussex, or Yorkshire. This proves more than anything the fundamental character of the genuine folk song. It will be noticed that a large proportion of the tunes in this collection are modal in character—Dorian, Aeolian, or Mixolydian. The chapter suggests that the Mixolydian and Dorian tunes are more characteristic of agricultural districts, while Aeolian tunes belong more to towns, and to trades such as fishing and cobbling.
Catherine Richardson
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- July 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780719065446
- eISBN:
- 9781781701164
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719065446.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 16th-century and Renaissance Literature
In a theatre that self-consciously cultivated its audiences' imagination, how and what did playgoers ‘see’ on the stage? This book reconstructs one aspect of that imaginative process, considering a ...
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In a theatre that self-consciously cultivated its audiences' imagination, how and what did playgoers ‘see’ on the stage? This book reconstructs one aspect of that imaginative process, considering a range of printed and documentary evidence for the way ordinary individuals thought about their houses and households. It then explores how writers of domestic tragedies engaged those attitudes to shape their representations of domesticity. The book therefore offers a way of understanding theatrical representations based around a truly interdisciplinary study of the interaction between literary and historical methods. The opening chapters use household manuals, court depositions, wills and inventories to reconstruct the morality of household space and its affective meanings, and to explore ways of imaging these spaces. Further chapters discuss Arden of Faversham, Two Lamentable Tragedies, A Woman Killed With Kindness and A Yorkshire Tragedy, considering how the dynamics of the early modern house were represented on the stage. They identify a grammar of domestic representation stretching from subtle identifications of location to stage properties and the use of stage space. Investigating the connections between the seen and the unseen, between secret and revelation, between inside and outside, household and community, these plays are shown to offer a uniquely developed domestic mimesis.Less
In a theatre that self-consciously cultivated its audiences' imagination, how and what did playgoers ‘see’ on the stage? This book reconstructs one aspect of that imaginative process, considering a range of printed and documentary evidence for the way ordinary individuals thought about their houses and households. It then explores how writers of domestic tragedies engaged those attitudes to shape their representations of domesticity. The book therefore offers a way of understanding theatrical representations based around a truly interdisciplinary study of the interaction between literary and historical methods. The opening chapters use household manuals, court depositions, wills and inventories to reconstruct the morality of household space and its affective meanings, and to explore ways of imaging these spaces. Further chapters discuss Arden of Faversham, Two Lamentable Tragedies, A Woman Killed With Kindness and A Yorkshire Tragedy, considering how the dynamics of the early modern house were represented on the stage. They identify a grammar of domestic representation stretching from subtle identifications of location to stage properties and the use of stage space. Investigating the connections between the seen and the unseen, between secret and revelation, between inside and outside, household and community, these plays are shown to offer a uniquely developed domestic mimesis.
Ralph Hanna
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780197263037
- eISBN:
- 9780191734007
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- British Academy
- DOI:
- 10.5871/bacad/9780197263037.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, Cultural History
This lecture discusses the selective procedures that underlie a narrow range of later fourteenth-century Yorkshire books. It follows up a typically elliptical discussion from Ian Doyle's Cambridge ...
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This lecture discusses the selective procedures that underlie a narrow range of later fourteenth-century Yorkshire books. It follows up a typically elliptical discussion from Ian Doyle's Cambridge dissertation, and supplements it with the unique unpublished portion of Doyle's famous 1967 Lycell Lectures.Less
This lecture discusses the selective procedures that underlie a narrow range of later fourteenth-century Yorkshire books. It follows up a typically elliptical discussion from Ian Doyle's Cambridge dissertation, and supplements it with the unique unpublished portion of Doyle's famous 1967 Lycell Lectures.
R. W. Hoyle
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780198208747
- eISBN:
- 9780191716980
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198208747.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, European Medieval History
The reaction of the Lincolnshire gentry, faced with a disturbance which they could not control, was to send word of their difficulties to Henry VIII and await rescue. So, first John Hennage rode ...
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The reaction of the Lincolnshire gentry, faced with a disturbance which they could not control, was to send word of their difficulties to Henry VIII and await rescue. So, first John Hennage rode southwards, then Sir Edward Maddison. Lord Burgh, who evaded the rebels at Caistor, fled westwards into Nottinghamshire and wrote to the king on Tuesday night from Saundby giving an outline of the day's events. He also sent word to Thomas Darcy and the earl of Shrewsbury in Yorkshire, finding Shrewsbury at his house in Sheffield Park. Shrewsbury immediately sent news of the outrage to the king. Other reports, including one from John, Lord Hussey at Sleaford, were received in the following days. The news was also spread by word of mouth. Yet there were also those who remained in blissful ignorance of the great events taking shape in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire.Less
The reaction of the Lincolnshire gentry, faced with a disturbance which they could not control, was to send word of their difficulties to Henry VIII and await rescue. So, first John Hennage rode southwards, then Sir Edward Maddison. Lord Burgh, who evaded the rebels at Caistor, fled westwards into Nottinghamshire and wrote to the king on Tuesday night from Saundby giving an outline of the day's events. He also sent word to Thomas Darcy and the earl of Shrewsbury in Yorkshire, finding Shrewsbury at his house in Sheffield Park. Shrewsbury immediately sent news of the outrage to the king. Other reports, including one from John, Lord Hussey at Sleaford, were received in the following days. The news was also spread by word of mouth. Yet there were also those who remained in blissful ignorance of the great events taking shape in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire.
Anne Stott
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199699391
- eISBN:
- 9780191739132
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199699391.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
This chapter describes how William Wilberforce became a Member of Parliament first for Hull and then, in the election of 1784 the Pittite Member for Yorkshire. It deals with his religious conversion ...
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This chapter describes how William Wilberforce became a Member of Parliament first for Hull and then, in the election of 1784 the Pittite Member for Yorkshire. It deals with his religious conversion under the influence of John Newton. The conversion is set in three contexts: the eighteenth-century Evangelical revival, the structure of conversion narratives, and the late Enlightenment culture of sensibility. It is argued that Wilberforce’s commitment to the abolition of the slave trade arose directly out of his conversion. His decision to take up the cause is dated more precisely than preceding accounts. The rhetorical strategies behind his 1789 abolition speech are analysed in the light of recent work on the language of abolition, and it is shown that his arguments were deeply influenced by Adam Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments. The end of the chapter returns to Wilberforce’s personal concerns.Less
This chapter describes how William Wilberforce became a Member of Parliament first for Hull and then, in the election of 1784 the Pittite Member for Yorkshire. It deals with his religious conversion under the influence of John Newton. The conversion is set in three contexts: the eighteenth-century Evangelical revival, the structure of conversion narratives, and the late Enlightenment culture of sensibility. It is argued that Wilberforce’s commitment to the abolition of the slave trade arose directly out of his conversion. His decision to take up the cause is dated more precisely than preceding accounts. The rhetorical strategies behind his 1789 abolition speech are analysed in the light of recent work on the language of abolition, and it is shown that his arguments were deeply influenced by Adam Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments. The end of the chapter returns to Wilberforce’s personal concerns.
Anne Stott
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199699391
- eISBN:
- 9780191739132
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199699391.003.0010
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
This chapter briefly summarizes the debate on separate spheres by relating the concept to the lives of the Clapham sect. It is argued that though the men lived public lives, they spent their private ...
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This chapter briefly summarizes the debate on separate spheres by relating the concept to the lives of the Clapham sect. It is argued that though the men lived public lives, they spent their private time in the company of their wives and children rather than in the masculine world of clubs. The chapter shows that Barbara Wilberforce, Selina Macaulay, and Marianne (Sykes) Thornton (Mrs Henry Thornton) did not become close friends and had different views on wifely responsibilities, with Marianne Thornton the most actively engaged in her husband’s public career. The passing of the abolition act in 1807 and Wilberforce’s Yorkshire election campaign of that year are discussed mainly from her point of view. The chapter ends with a discussion of the childbearing histories of the three women.Less
This chapter briefly summarizes the debate on separate spheres by relating the concept to the lives of the Clapham sect. It is argued that though the men lived public lives, they spent their private time in the company of their wives and children rather than in the masculine world of clubs. The chapter shows that Barbara Wilberforce, Selina Macaulay, and Marianne (Sykes) Thornton (Mrs Henry Thornton) did not become close friends and had different views on wifely responsibilities, with Marianne Thornton the most actively engaged in her husband’s public career. The passing of the abolition act in 1807 and Wilberforce’s Yorkshire election campaign of that year are discussed mainly from her point of view. The chapter ends with a discussion of the childbearing histories of the three women.
Ray Hearne and Ryan Bramley
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781447333302
- eISBN:
- 9781447333357
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447333302.003.0005
- Subject:
- Social Work, Communities and Organizations
This chapter showcases some literary pieces centred around Rotherham, and are based on the authors' own experiences growing up in the area as well as observations on the socio-economic conditions of ...
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This chapter showcases some literary pieces centred around Rotherham, and are based on the authors' own experiences growing up in the area as well as observations on the socio-economic conditions of Rotherham. Some of the poetry articulates the smoke-choked experience of South Yorkshire of the 1960s and 1970s, and one sets the tone for life to be lived on the periphery: in a contested space between working-class pride, and middle-class aspiration; between belonging and rootlessness. The chapter also contains a prose piece detailing ‘Rotherham's hellish underworld’ which reveals the price paid by dint of economic survival. A song is also included alongside the poetry and prose pieces.Less
This chapter showcases some literary pieces centred around Rotherham, and are based on the authors' own experiences growing up in the area as well as observations on the socio-economic conditions of Rotherham. Some of the poetry articulates the smoke-choked experience of South Yorkshire of the 1960s and 1970s, and one sets the tone for life to be lived on the periphery: in a contested space between working-class pride, and middle-class aspiration; between belonging and rootlessness. The chapter also contains a prose piece detailing ‘Rotherham's hellish underworld’ which reveals the price paid by dint of economic survival. A song is also included alongside the poetry and prose pieces.
David Forrest and Sue Vice
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781784992620
- eISBN:
- 9781526132208
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9781784992620.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This book analyses all of Barry Hines’s written works, including fiction, screenplays for film and television and scripts for the theatre. We draw on Barry Hines’s archive, in which appear several ...
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This book analyses all of Barry Hines’s written works, including fiction, screenplays for film and television and scripts for the theatre. We draw on Barry Hines’s archive, in which appear several novels and screenplays which were never published or produced. We argue throughout that Hines’s best-known works are deservedly his 1968 novel A Kestrel for a Knave, and the 1984 atomic-war drama Threads. Both works have become central elements of British cultural history, A Kestrel for a Knave for its portrait of a schoolboy who tries to transcend his limited circumstances, Threads for its powerful portrayal of ordinary lives and communities destroyed by a nuclear attack. Yet the poetic realism that characterizes these works is evident in the very wide range of other kinds of writing that Hines produced, over the forty years of his writing life. Hines’s other works draw on the themes that preoccupied him, including injustice and deprivation, in relation to fiction and scripts about coal-mining, landowners, football, education and gender, culminating in works that represented Britain as multicultural and post-industrial nation. We argue that Hines’s entire oeuvre is as deserving of attention as that given to his best-known works.Less
This book analyses all of Barry Hines’s written works, including fiction, screenplays for film and television and scripts for the theatre. We draw on Barry Hines’s archive, in which appear several novels and screenplays which were never published or produced. We argue throughout that Hines’s best-known works are deservedly his 1968 novel A Kestrel for a Knave, and the 1984 atomic-war drama Threads. Both works have become central elements of British cultural history, A Kestrel for a Knave for its portrait of a schoolboy who tries to transcend his limited circumstances, Threads for its powerful portrayal of ordinary lives and communities destroyed by a nuclear attack. Yet the poetic realism that characterizes these works is evident in the very wide range of other kinds of writing that Hines produced, over the forty years of his writing life. Hines’s other works draw on the themes that preoccupied him, including injustice and deprivation, in relation to fiction and scripts about coal-mining, landowners, football, education and gender, culminating in works that represented Britain as multicultural and post-industrial nation. We argue that Hines’s entire oeuvre is as deserving of attention as that given to his best-known works.
P. R. Cavill
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780199573837
- eISBN:
- 9780191721878
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199573837.003.0007
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Early Modern History
Chapter 6 considers how decisions taken in parliament affected everyday life. It first discusses the publicizing of statute law examining the roles of proclamations and of statute books, and the rise ...
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Chapter 6 considers how decisions taken in parliament affected everyday life. It first discusses the publicizing of statute law examining the roles of proclamations and of statute books, and the rise of printing is addressed. Next it discusses the interaction between national legislation and local regulations, exploring the reception of statute law in local courts through jury presentments and borough ordinances. Then tax collection is discussed as a central means by which parliament impinged upon the lives of ordinary people. The efficiency of tax collection is considered. The popular protests that demands for taxation sometimes provoked are also analysed. Particular attention is paid to the Yorkshire rising of 1489 and to the Western rebellion of 1497.Less
Chapter 6 considers how decisions taken in parliament affected everyday life. It first discusses the publicizing of statute law examining the roles of proclamations and of statute books, and the rise of printing is addressed. Next it discusses the interaction between national legislation and local regulations, exploring the reception of statute law in local courts through jury presentments and borough ordinances. Then tax collection is discussed as a central means by which parliament impinged upon the lives of ordinary people. The efficiency of tax collection is considered. The popular protests that demands for taxation sometimes provoked are also analysed. Particular attention is paid to the Yorkshire rising of 1489 and to the Western rebellion of 1497.
Emma Griffin
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780197263211
- eISBN:
- 9780191734427
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- British Academy
- DOI:
- 10.5871/bacad/9780197263211.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, Social History
This chapter discusses sports and pastimes that were enjoyed in two contrasting communities in the early nineteenth century: the west Midlands and the West Riding of Yorkshire. It demonstrates the ...
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This chapter discusses sports and pastimes that were enjoyed in two contrasting communities in the early nineteenth century: the west Midlands and the West Riding of Yorkshire. It demonstrates the very different patterns of popular recreations that prevailed in each. The chapter also sets out to consider how such marked divergences between the cultural practices of the two regions had been formed. It explores popular recreation from the viewpoint of the regions.Less
This chapter discusses sports and pastimes that were enjoyed in two contrasting communities in the early nineteenth century: the west Midlands and the West Riding of Yorkshire. It demonstrates the very different patterns of popular recreations that prevailed in each. The chapter also sets out to consider how such marked divergences between the cultural practices of the two regions had been formed. It explores popular recreation from the viewpoint of the regions.
P. J. P. Goldberg
- Published in print:
- 1992
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198201540
- eISBN:
- 9780191674938
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198201540.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Medieval History, Economic History
The question which inspired this book was the extent to which marriage was an economic necessity for medieval woman. The period is almost devoid of letters written by women and autobiographical ...
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The question which inspired this book was the extent to which marriage was an economic necessity for medieval woman. The period is almost devoid of letters written by women and autobiographical material. There are only few records which allowed women to be heard even second hand. This study attempts to overcome such difficulties by focusing on York and the country of Yorkshire from the early 14th to the early 16th century. Then it compares the experience of this region with other regions of later medieval Europe, notably early 15th-century Tuscany, and with England in the post-medieval era. It also suggests some patterns of continuity and change.Less
The question which inspired this book was the extent to which marriage was an economic necessity for medieval woman. The period is almost devoid of letters written by women and autobiographical material. There are only few records which allowed women to be heard even second hand. This study attempts to overcome such difficulties by focusing on York and the country of Yorkshire from the early 14th to the early 16th century. Then it compares the experience of this region with other regions of later medieval Europe, notably early 15th-century Tuscany, and with England in the post-medieval era. It also suggests some patterns of continuity and change.
P. J. P. Goldberg
- Published in print:
- 1992
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198201540
- eISBN:
- 9780191674938
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198201540.003.0008
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Medieval History, Economic History
This chapter explores more fully the structure of late medieval English society and examines the role women played in economic life. It compares and contrasts this with the post-medieval English ...
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This chapter explores more fully the structure of late medieval English society and examines the role women played in economic life. It compares and contrasts this with the post-medieval English evidence and some continental evidence, notably for Tuscany around the time of the great tax survey or catasto of 1427, a society that allowed women little economic or emotional independence. On one hand, it considers the issue of household and marriage in late medieval England. On the other hand, it considers the wider question of the relationship between movements in the economy. It proposes a new hypothesis that links increasing demand for female labour with greater autonomy for women in deciding when and whom to marry. This hypothesis suggests an essentially anti-Malthusian relationship between nuptiality and economic opportunity for women.Less
This chapter explores more fully the structure of late medieval English society and examines the role women played in economic life. It compares and contrasts this with the post-medieval English evidence and some continental evidence, notably for Tuscany around the time of the great tax survey or catasto of 1427, a society that allowed women little economic or emotional independence. On one hand, it considers the issue of household and marriage in late medieval England. On the other hand, it considers the wider question of the relationship between movements in the economy. It proposes a new hypothesis that links increasing demand for female labour with greater autonomy for women in deciding when and whom to marry. This hypothesis suggests an essentially anti-Malthusian relationship between nuptiality and economic opportunity for women.
John Prest
- Published in print:
- 1990
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198201755
- eISBN:
- 9780191675003
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198201755.003.0013
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
This chapter focuses on technological changes in the woollen industry in Huddersfield. Between 1780 and 1850, while the population of Huddersfield grew, the familiar world of the Yorkshire clothier ...
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This chapter focuses on technological changes in the woollen industry in Huddersfield. Between 1780 and 1850, while the population of Huddersfield grew, the familiar world of the Yorkshire clothier was undermined by changes in the capitalisation of the trade, and overthrown by advances in technology which redrew the lines between classes. In the 1830s, power weaving became the norm for plain woollens, and in 1833, there were more new mills building in Huddersfield than in any other part of Yorkshire.Less
This chapter focuses on technological changes in the woollen industry in Huddersfield. Between 1780 and 1850, while the population of Huddersfield grew, the familiar world of the Yorkshire clothier was undermined by changes in the capitalisation of the trade, and overthrown by advances in technology which redrew the lines between classes. In the 1830s, power weaving became the norm for plain woollens, and in 1833, there were more new mills building in Huddersfield than in any other part of Yorkshire.
David Wallace
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199541713
- eISBN:
- 9780191730924
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199541713.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, Early and Medieval Literature
Related to all but two of the Gunpowder plotters, Mary Ward left England in 1606 to try her vocation in the Spanish Netherlands as a nun. Realizing that enclosure was not for her, she returned to ...
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Related to all but two of the Gunpowder plotters, Mary Ward left England in 1606 to try her vocation in the Spanish Netherlands as a nun. Realizing that enclosure was not for her, she returned to England to minister directly to Catholics, especially the poor. Her movement spread across Europe, with foundations at Bratislava, Cologne, Liège, London, Munich, Naples, Perugia, Rome, St-Omer, Treviso, and Vienna. But Rome, unnerved by the notion of ‘English Ladies’ following an apostolate of the streets modelled on the Jesuit rule, dissolved it by papal bull in 1631; not until 1909 that could Mary Ward again be named as founder. Before 2007, not one sentence of the French, Italian, or English lives of Mary Ward, or of her marvellous correspondence, was available as originally written. Now, however, almost all is revealed in one of the greatest additions to the canon of premodern, female-written, female-edited writings.Less
Related to all but two of the Gunpowder plotters, Mary Ward left England in 1606 to try her vocation in the Spanish Netherlands as a nun. Realizing that enclosure was not for her, she returned to England to minister directly to Catholics, especially the poor. Her movement spread across Europe, with foundations at Bratislava, Cologne, Liège, London, Munich, Naples, Perugia, Rome, St-Omer, Treviso, and Vienna. But Rome, unnerved by the notion of ‘English Ladies’ following an apostolate of the streets modelled on the Jesuit rule, dissolved it by papal bull in 1631; not until 1909 that could Mary Ward again be named as founder. Before 2007, not one sentence of the French, Italian, or English lives of Mary Ward, or of her marvellous correspondence, was available as originally written. Now, however, almost all is revealed in one of the greatest additions to the canon of premodern, female-written, female-edited writings.
Matt Cole
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- July 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780719082535
- eISBN:
- 9781781702024
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719082535.001.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, UK Politics
This book offers new research on familiar themes involving loyalties of politics, faith and locality. Richard Wainwright was a Liberal MP for seventeen years during the Liberal Party's recovery, but ...
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This book offers new research on familiar themes involving loyalties of politics, faith and locality. Richard Wainwright was a Liberal MP for seventeen years during the Liberal Party's recovery, but his life tells us about much more than this. He grew up in prosperity, but learned from voluntary work about poverty; he refused to fight in World War Two, but saw war at its cruellest; he joined the Liberal Party when most had given up on it, but gave his fortune to it; lost a by-election but caused the only Labour loss in Harold Wilson's landslide of 1966. Wainwright then played a key role in the fall of Jeremy Thorpe, the Lib-Lab Pact and the formation of the SDP-Liberal Alliance and the Liberal Democrats; he represented a unique Yorkshire constituency that reflected his pride and hope for society; and though he gave his life to the battle to be in the Commons, he refused a seat in the Lords. He is central to the story of the Liberal Party and sheds light on the reasons for its survival and the state of its prospects. At the same time, this book is a parable of politics for anyone who wants to represent an apparently lost cause, who wants to motivate people who have been neglected, and who want to follow their convictions at the highest level.Less
This book offers new research on familiar themes involving loyalties of politics, faith and locality. Richard Wainwright was a Liberal MP for seventeen years during the Liberal Party's recovery, but his life tells us about much more than this. He grew up in prosperity, but learned from voluntary work about poverty; he refused to fight in World War Two, but saw war at its cruellest; he joined the Liberal Party when most had given up on it, but gave his fortune to it; lost a by-election but caused the only Labour loss in Harold Wilson's landslide of 1966. Wainwright then played a key role in the fall of Jeremy Thorpe, the Lib-Lab Pact and the formation of the SDP-Liberal Alliance and the Liberal Democrats; he represented a unique Yorkshire constituency that reflected his pride and hope for society; and though he gave his life to the battle to be in the Commons, he refused a seat in the Lords. He is central to the story of the Liberal Party and sheds light on the reasons for its survival and the state of its prospects. At the same time, this book is a parable of politics for anyone who wants to represent an apparently lost cause, who wants to motivate people who have been neglected, and who want to follow their convictions at the highest level.
Felicity Dunworth
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- July 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780719076329
- eISBN:
- 9781781702161
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719076329.003.0006
- Subject:
- Literature, 16th-century and Renaissance Literature
This chapter considers the mother's physical presence in relation to spaces; to the geography that signifies and comprises her social function and status. The focus is upon the representation of ...
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This chapter considers the mother's physical presence in relation to spaces; to the geography that signifies and comprises her social function and status. The focus is upon the representation of domesticity in domestic tragedies, which turn upon the dangerous potential of motherhood in an uncertain Protestant world, and city comedies, which farcically expose the tensions and hypocrisies of an environment where social and economic considerations are shown to predominate. The complex social structures in such a world are clearly adumbrated in A Warning for Fair Women, A Yorkshire Tragedy and A Chaste Maid in Cheapside, where the family is the smallest unit of an integrated society that is based upon the importance of geographic locality and economic interdependence. In such conditions, maternity is vulnerable, and with it, the fragile stability of the social structures that depend upon it.Less
This chapter considers the mother's physical presence in relation to spaces; to the geography that signifies and comprises her social function and status. The focus is upon the representation of domesticity in domestic tragedies, which turn upon the dangerous potential of motherhood in an uncertain Protestant world, and city comedies, which farcically expose the tensions and hypocrisies of an environment where social and economic considerations are shown to predominate. The complex social structures in such a world are clearly adumbrated in A Warning for Fair Women, A Yorkshire Tragedy and A Chaste Maid in Cheapside, where the family is the smallest unit of an integrated society that is based upon the importance of geographic locality and economic interdependence. In such conditions, maternity is vulnerable, and with it, the fragile stability of the social structures that depend upon it.
Catherine Richardson
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- July 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780719065446
- eISBN:
- 9781781701164
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719065446.003.0007
- Subject:
- Literature, 16th-century and Renaissance Literature
Perhaps the overriding meanings of ‘household’ in A Yorkshire Tragedy are family and lineage, and it offers a complex examination of the intergenerational pull of the ‘house’ as contained by the ...
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Perhaps the overriding meanings of ‘household’ in A Yorkshire Tragedy are family and lineage, and it offers a complex examination of the intergenerational pull of the ‘house’ as contained by the family seat. It is in the context not only of his role as head of his nuclear family but also as representative of his ancestral heritage that the husband's actions are judged, resulting in a play whose temporal perspective is as wide as that of A Woman Killed With Kindness. A Yorkshire Tragedy treats the familiar domestic themes of the pain of familial rupture and the relationship between household and community, but it does so in a very different theatrical form. The opening scene, in which the servants discuss their London wares, has a familiar social particularity to it, but the rest of the play is totally dissimilar in tone: the physical articulation of rooms and spaces and specifically localised areas of the house are pared down to one significant example. Images that connect earth to heaven, soiling money to ethereal purity, set the play firmly within the morality tradition.Less
Perhaps the overriding meanings of ‘household’ in A Yorkshire Tragedy are family and lineage, and it offers a complex examination of the intergenerational pull of the ‘house’ as contained by the family seat. It is in the context not only of his role as head of his nuclear family but also as representative of his ancestral heritage that the husband's actions are judged, resulting in a play whose temporal perspective is as wide as that of A Woman Killed With Kindness. A Yorkshire Tragedy treats the familiar domestic themes of the pain of familial rupture and the relationship between household and community, but it does so in a very different theatrical form. The opening scene, in which the servants discuss their London wares, has a familiar social particularity to it, but the rest of the play is totally dissimilar in tone: the physical articulation of rooms and spaces and specifically localised areas of the house are pared down to one significant example. Images that connect earth to heaven, soiling money to ethereal purity, set the play firmly within the morality tradition.
Sarah Rees Jones
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- January 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780198201946
- eISBN:
- 9780191746338
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198201946.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Medieval History
This chapter provides a chronological introduction to the history of York, concentrating on the period before 1068. It surveys both medieval histories of the origins of the city such as those ...
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This chapter provides a chronological introduction to the history of York, concentrating on the period before 1068. It surveys both medieval histories of the origins of the city such as those provided by Bede and Geoffrey of Monmouth, and histories of the city developed since the eighteenth century. Similarly the chapter surveys the geographical context and setting of York with a particular focus on representations of York on medieval maps and its position in relation to Northumbria and Yorkshire before 1066. Finally the chapter sets out the main approaches and methodology of the whole book including an introduction to developing forms of land tenure in the period after 1068.Less
This chapter provides a chronological introduction to the history of York, concentrating on the period before 1068. It surveys both medieval histories of the origins of the city such as those provided by Bede and Geoffrey of Monmouth, and histories of the city developed since the eighteenth century. Similarly the chapter surveys the geographical context and setting of York with a particular focus on representations of York on medieval maps and its position in relation to Northumbria and Yorkshire before 1066. Finally the chapter sets out the main approaches and methodology of the whole book including an introduction to developing forms of land tenure in the period after 1068.
Anne Power and Helen Willmot
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781861345783
- eISBN:
- 9781447301394
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781861345783.003.0013
- Subject:
- Sociology, Social Stratification, Inequality, and Mobility
For five years, the lives of the 200 families in four of the most deprived areas in the country have been traced. Every year, the authors of this chapter visit the families and record their changing ...
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For five years, the lives of the 200 families in four of the most deprived areas in the country have been traced. Every year, the authors of this chapter visit the families and record their changing views and experiences on child-raising in difficult and unpopular neighbourhoods. The four areas, two in East London and two in Yorkshire were chosen from the twelve representative deprived areas that were examined in an attempt to understand the changing fortunes of such places. Three of the four places were rapidly changing and becoming more ethnically diverse while the other area comprises almost entirely white large council estates in Leeds. After the ascension to office of New Labour in 1997, the new Prime Minister introduced a new approach to the joined up problems by calling up for joined up solutions. Under the Prime Minister, a new unit that tackled social exclusion was set up. The Social Exclusion Unit (SEU) recognised the centrality of area conditions in holding back families and particularly children and young people from opportunities, and advocated broad targets that would reduce deprivation within disadvantaged areas. However, as the area of initiatives multiplied, complaints from local authorities and within Whitehall emerged. This chapter focuses on what is really happening within the four deprived areas, whether programmes and interventions really matter, and whether mothers and their children benefit or not from the policies targeted at deprived and marginalised groups. The first section discusses the two areas of government action targeted at the entire population, but with greater emphasis on deprived areas where the problems are most severe: education and employment. The succeeding sections focus on the three initiatives that are specifically targeted at deprived areas: New Deal for Communities and Sure Start; community participation and empowerment; and community policing and neighbourhood wardens.Less
For five years, the lives of the 200 families in four of the most deprived areas in the country have been traced. Every year, the authors of this chapter visit the families and record their changing views and experiences on child-raising in difficult and unpopular neighbourhoods. The four areas, two in East London and two in Yorkshire were chosen from the twelve representative deprived areas that were examined in an attempt to understand the changing fortunes of such places. Three of the four places were rapidly changing and becoming more ethnically diverse while the other area comprises almost entirely white large council estates in Leeds. After the ascension to office of New Labour in 1997, the new Prime Minister introduced a new approach to the joined up problems by calling up for joined up solutions. Under the Prime Minister, a new unit that tackled social exclusion was set up. The Social Exclusion Unit (SEU) recognised the centrality of area conditions in holding back families and particularly children and young people from opportunities, and advocated broad targets that would reduce deprivation within disadvantaged areas. However, as the area of initiatives multiplied, complaints from local authorities and within Whitehall emerged. This chapter focuses on what is really happening within the four deprived areas, whether programmes and interventions really matter, and whether mothers and their children benefit or not from the policies targeted at deprived and marginalised groups. The first section discusses the two areas of government action targeted at the entire population, but with greater emphasis on deprived areas where the problems are most severe: education and employment. The succeeding sections focus on the three initiatives that are specifically targeted at deprived areas: New Deal for Communities and Sure Start; community participation and empowerment; and community policing and neighbourhood wardens.
