123 research outputs found
An exhortation to trust in God, and not to despair of His help and fall from Him, in this dark time of popery that is coming upon the church written by Digby Bull.
No full textA letter of a Protestant clergy-man to the reverend clergy of the Church of England, and to all other good Protestants advertising them from the sacred revelation of St. John of the evil which he apprehends to be coming upon the Protestant church, etc. / written by Digby Bull ...
No full textThe church's request to all her faithful sons and children that they would now pray for her, and stand by her, and help her what they can, and not forsake her in her desolate condition, and the dark time of popery that is coming upon her / written by Digby Bull ...
No full textThe watch-man's voice, giving warning to all men of the dreadful day of the Lord, which he apprehends to be at hand that they may take a due care to save their souls and lives that they perish not therein, and that their blood may not be required at his hand / written by Digby Bull.
No full textThe contrariety of popery to the blessed word of God wherein may be seen that the doctrine and practice of the Church of Rome are not consistent with the sacred oracles of the Old and New Testament ... / written by Digby Bull ...
No full textA letter of advice to all the worthy and ingenuous merchants of the city of London, [electronic resource] : and elsewhere in England, Scotland, and Ireland; And also to all the Worthy and Ingenuous Merchants of France, and of Holland and the United-Provinces, and of Germany, Spain, Portugal, Denmark, and Sweden, and elsewhere in Europe; and To all Ingenuous and Ingenious Artists in Astronomy, Geography, and Navigation; shewing An exact, easie and speedy Way to know the Longitude of all Places in the World, where the European Merchants have their Agents to make Observations; and also How the Longitude of Places may be better known upon Ship-Board. Written by Digby Bull, M. A. and late Rector of Sheldon in Warwick-Shire.
No full textElectronic reproduction.English Short Title Catalog,Reproduction of original from British Library
La Vie de un vallet amerous (Digby 86): a dramatic monologue on the practice and pitfalls of seduction in medieval Britain – by Richard, author of the Besturné?
No full textSurviving in a single copy in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Digby 86, the poem La Vie de un vallet amerous has garnered itself a reputation for its singular obscenity, but it is arguably of greater interest in Anglo-Norman literary history for being a comic dramatic monologue composed in a distinctive verse form. The present article offers a new critical edition of the text and reflects on its relationship to the rest of the manuscript, with particular attention to its affinities to La Besturné, an Anglo-Norman nonsense poem conventionally attributed to a certain Richard
Growing Old in Oxford 1930-1960
No full textThis thesis explores how old people in Oxford were cared for between 1930 and 1960, before and after the inception of the welfare state. Its purpose is to analyse how some families and professionals responded to the transition from the poor law to the welfare state, and examine any changes in this process. Admission to a state institution was usual for old people who were without financial and social resources. In Oxford the Cowley Road Hospital, originally built as a workhouse in the nineteenth century provided this treatment over this period of time.
The thesis investigates the relationship of this institution to the broader community in relation to the care of old people. From the 1930s geriatric medicine, a speciality emerged spearheaded by Dr Marjory Warren, geriatric medicine. Early pioneers of geriatric medicine, working in state run institutions, were advocating the need for change in provision for old people, and this study examines their role in this process of change. Within this group of doctors, Dr Lionel Cosin, an initiator and influencer of change and policy in post-war care for old people, was appointed to the Cowley Road Hospital soon after the inception of the welfare state. This thesis seeks to discover in conjunction with the changes arising from the introduction of the welfare state, if old people in Oxford benefitted from his position.
By using oral histories as a major source of evidence, alongside documentary sources, this investigation aims to bring fresh perspectives to the study of the process of ageing. Within the context of national legislative changes it discovers how a city responded to these, and juxtaposes how families cared for their older relatives. Each chapter examines aspects that contributed to changing provision and attitudes towards old people by professionals and relatives. Local evidence is compared with national to suggest that the city was progressive in its care and attitudes towards old people
'Where of is mad al mankynde' : an edition of and introduction to the twenty-four poems in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Digby 102
No full text'Where of is Mad al Mankynde' represents a new critical edition of the collection of twenty-four late-medieval anonymous poems contained, among other pieces, in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Digby 102. Each poem is introduced with a brief summary and closes with line-for-line explanatory comments. The poems are glossed both in the margin and in footnotes. The text edition is preceded by codicological and linguistic analyses, including a discussion of dialect and dating, and by a survey of the literary and cultural background, including a discussion of the identity of the author and his audience. The text edition is followed by a comprehensive glossary, an index of names, authors and subjects, and a bibliography.LEI Universiteit LeidenMedieval and Early Modern Studie
The MS Digby 133 Mary Magdalene. Beyond scribal practices: language, discourse, values and attitudes
No full textThe MS133 Digby Mary Magdalene has commonly been investigated by paying attention to literary features, while linguistic aspects have seldom been taken into consideration, with the result that any deviation from the norm has been classified as scribal inconsistency. On the contrary, what has been regarded as scribal carelessness actually seems to be a modern misunderstanding of scribal practices. Indeed, the significant combination of Southern, Midlands and Northern elements featuring the language of Mary Magdalene is the result of the scribe’s desire to faithfully reproduce the author’s design, in which variants may have a marked social function. We can thus infer that the Mary Magdalene author probably created a sort of biblical koiné, shared with the audience, which was realized with the linguistic varieties offered by the existing late Middle English dialects and clearly exploited not only for poetic but also, and above all, for religious purposes. At the same time, the text puts an innovative emphasis on the figure of Mary Magdalene, who simultaneously plays the role of sinner and saint, virgin and prostitute, female and male. Thanks to the methodological approach employed, this volume shows that most unusual forms are diatopic and diastratic alternatives used in specific religious contexts to realize well-defined sociolinguistic purposes
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