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"Both diligent and secret": the intelligence letters of William Herle
No full textPhDThe unpublished letters of William Herle, diplomat and intelligencer to the
court of Elizabeth I reveal startling insights into the role of such agents in
political affairs. As well as their more obvious content of sensitive
information, Herle's letters expose his primary impetus behind the pursuit
of intelligence; of the construction and maintenance of a patronage
alliance based upon the judicious exchange and release of knowledge at
politically sensitive moments. This epistolary aspect of intelligence letters
- overlooked by much scholarship - reveals the complex strategies Herle
implements to circumvent the disruption of social hierarchy at the moment
of counsel, the private transfer of knowledge in a medium often subject to
broadcast, and the uncomfortable union of potent intelligence and familiar
affect. This dissertation investigates the world of Elizabethan intelligence
operations as experienced by William Herle, focusing on the topics of
religion, early modern diplomacy, imprisonment, secret communication
and patronage relationships based upon intelligence-exchange. The letters
are an invaluable resource for scholars of early modern history and
sixteenth-century letter writing, documenting the lengths to which a client
would go to secure and maintain patronage in this period, encompassing
the giving of gifts, the transmitting of books, and the strategic deployment
of potent information. Scrutinizing intelligence operations from a social
and textual standpoint offers the scholar a wider picture of the agent's
position and relation to the political landscape. This dissertation examines
Herle's evolving status of common informant, prison spy, diplomatic envoy,
and special ambassador, surmounting obstacles of social hierarchy whilst
maintaining a marginal, secret status. By identifying the epistolary and
social minutiae of Herle's letters, this study relocates the position of the
Elizabethan intelligencer, departing from the typical notion of skulking spy
and instead positioning the agent directly in contact, both textual and
physical, with the political power-base
Solennitatem Nuptialem Viri Nobilis, Excellentis, & Clarissimi, Dn. Casparis Conradi Vratisl: [...] Cum Nobili & Lectissima Virgine Christiana Tilesia [...] Dn. M. Melchioris Tilesii [...] relicta filia : Bregæ Silesiorum, 15. d. Maji, Anno 1607. celebratam [...]
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Panama and northern South America 1631
No full textShows Central America and northwestern South America. Relief shown pictorially. Dutch text on verso page 13. Signature: L. Gift of Pat Van Alyea.This map of 1631 by Willem Janszoon Blaeu (1571–1638) shows Central America and the northwestern part of South America, including all or parts of Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela. A Dutch text on the reverse of the map explains the geography of the regions depicted, which encompassed the Spanish viceroyalty of New Granada and the province of Popayán, which took its name from the colonial city located at the foot of Volcán Puracé in the Cordillera Central of the Andes. The map shows rivers and other geographic features, along with towns and missions. Relief is shown pictorially. The map has two distance scales, Spanish leagues and German miles. Blaeu places a hand-colored compass rose in the Caribbean Sea (labeled the Northern Ocean, the term for the Atlantic in use at the time), and another, slightly larger one in the Pacific (labeled the Southern Ocean). The title, scales, Blaeu’s signature, and other information on the map are in Latin, but place-names are in Spanish. Blaeu was a leading Dutch cartographer and map publisher and the founder of a family of distinguished mapmakers that included his sons Joan and Cornelis. Born in the Netherlands in 1571, between 1594 and 1596 Blaeu studied in Denmark under the astronomer Tycho Brahe, where he developed skills as an instrument and globe maker. Upon returning to Amsterdam, he founded the family map company. In 1608 he was appointed chief hydrographer of the Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie (United East Indian Company), a position he held until his death. The use of the compass rose and the careful marking of capes, islands, and shallows along the coasts reflect his interest in marine cartography. WDLColor1:4,000,00
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
Kriminalfall: Alchemist 1571
No full text"Der betrügliche Goldmacher" ist ein historischer Kriminalfall, der sich 1571 in Wolfenbüttel ereignete. Jetzt brachte das NDR-Fernsehen den Kriminalfall vor die Kamera. [...] NDR-Redakteurin Katrin Heineking interviewte am Montag zunächst Elke Weyershausen, die im Niedersächsischen Staatsarchiv für Öffentlichkeitsarbeit zuständig ist. "Im Staatsarchiv liegt die Akte der Betrüger", erzählt Heineking und blättert in der Geschichte. 1571 stellt sich am Hofe zu Wolfenbüttel der Lebenskünstler ..
IX A 1 - Alte Stadtrechnungen (1571 - 1572)
No full textIX A 1 - ALTE STADTRECHNUNGEN (1571 - 1572)
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Georgii Fabricii Chemnicensis Roma ; Eivsdem Itinervm Liber unus ; Antiqvitatis Monvmenta insignia [...]. Accessere locupletes rerum & uerborum in his omnibus memorabilium indices.
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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
Les mariages, 1571-72
No full textDesjardins Abel. Les mariages, 1571-72. In: Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, 9ᵉ année, 1865. pp. 330-332
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