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The 'gude regent?': a diplomatic perspective upon the Earl of Moray, Mary, Queen of Scots and the Scottish Regency, 1567-1570
No full textThis thesis examines and re-evaluates the political career and reputation of James Stewart, Earl of Moray, who acted as Regent of Scotland for the young King James VI from 1567-1570, after the deposition of Mary, Queen of Scots. Drawing upon a rich and varied body of evidence located in both the English and Scottish archives of state papers, together with contemporary propaganda, memoirs and histories, this work constructs a much needed political narrative of the period, investigating the often highly complex politics which lay behind the outbreak and the initial stages of the Marian Civil War. It questions Maurice Lee's image of Moray as the 'gude regent', an image which was first present in Buchanan's History, and which depicts Moray as a highly successful regent, and an altruistic Protestant reformer. Dispelling Lee's view of Moray as a 'reluctant regent', it shows instead that the Earl was determined to gain, and then maintain, his position of power. It incorporates a discussion of the constitutionality of the actual regency itself, together with the theories of election which were drawn up to justify both it and the deposition of a monarch. In addition, the thesis sheds light upon the dynamics of Scottish political alignment during the period, emphasising the great fluidity which was to be found, and showing how issues of internal government, and attitudes towards England, affected men's allegiances as much as, if not more than, the ostensible issue of monarchy itself.
This study also builds upon recent work by Tudor historians such as John Guy and Stephen Alford, and sets Moray's regency within an Anglo-Scottish context, demonstrating the importance of the interconnections between events in England, such as the Norfolk plot, and Scottish politics. It investigates the English attitudes towards Mary, and towards the two rival parties within Scotland, taking into account the sometimes conflicting objectives of Elizabeth I and her leading ministers, such as William Cecil, yet showing how they consistently sought to gain dominance over Scotland. Moray's regency was cut short by his assassination, and this thesis concludes by considering both his murder and its aftermath. It explores how his death impacted upon the political situation, together with the way in which his reputation was shaped in the immediate period after his death. Finally, it investigates the opportunity that both Moray's assassination and the Northern Rising of late 1569 had given England to intervene in Scottish affairs, and further pursue policies to that country's own advantage
Gift-giving, consumption and the female court in sixteenth-century Italy
No full textPhDThe subject of my research is the female consort and her court. I focus on three Austrian
Archduchesses: Giovanna, Barbara and Eleonora Habsburg who came down to Italy in
the second half of the sixteenth century and married into the ducal houses of Florence,
Ferrara and Mantua respectively. My thesis compares the structures, roles and
relationships in these three contemporary female courts, and analyses the consorts’
reliance on personal consumption, gift-giving and patronage activities to assert their
power, position and identity. My research is primarily based on the unpublished letters
and accounts preserved in the three state archives of Florence, Modena (which contains
the Este archive) and Mantua.
My thesis starts with a background chapter on the history of the three Duchesses,
and then turns to address each Duchess’s financial situation, the organisation of her
court, her attitude to her husband and her new family and the particular circumstances
of her life. This chapter sheds new light on the position of the consort, and sets the stage
for the exploration of her patronage and consumption. My first case-study focuses on
clothing. I examine the Duchesses’ choices in dressing themselves and their courts and
analyse their treatment of clothing as a valuable visual language. My second case-study
focuses on the gifts of food that were sent to and from the Duchesses. I discuss their
function as items of relatively small economic value in the creation of patronage
relationships and in the process of social and political mediation.
The central tenet in my case-studies is that objects could act as coded messages,
with multiple meanings which can be dissected by studying owner, receiver, means of
transmission and the type of object itself. My approach employs material culture as a
means for enriching current knowledge of a particularly under-researched subject: the
female consort
A munkácsi várhoz tartozó falvak hely- és személynevei 1570-ben
Get PDFPlace and personal names of villages belonging to Mukachevo Castle in 1570
In the year 1570, eighteen settlements belonged to the demesne of Mukachevo Castle. Half of the settlements were recently established habitations. The author presents the names of the settlements, providing short explanations. Personal names of the inhabitants of the settlements are also enumerated. Special attention is given to rare Christian names and to the two nicknames appearing in the corpus. The author lists family names in alphabetical order, giving their probable contemporary pronunciations and meanings, and providing the names of the settlements to which the surnames belonged
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Sigurdi Stephanii terrarum hyperborearum Delineatio Anno 1570
No full textSIGURDI STEPHANII TERRARUM HYPERBOREARUM DELINEATIO ANNO 1570
Sigurdi Stephanii terrarum hyperborearum Delineatio Anno 1570 ( - )
Sigurdi Stephanii terrarum hyperborearum Delineatio Anno 1570 ( - )
Characterum in hac mappa occurrentium explicatio ipsius auctoris. ( - )
Mag: Theodori verba de his ita sonant. ( -
Storiografia repubblicana fiorentina : 1494-1570; Historiographie républicaine florentine (1494-1570)
No full textActes du colloque : Historiographie républicaine florentine (1494-1570). Lausanne, 13-15 juin 2002
Captaine [i.e. Captain] Christopher Carleill, Esq. [picture] /
No full textSix lines of verse engraved below image.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an9483230; Rex Nan Kivell Collection NK10159/4.; U6393
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