1,720,976 research outputs found
Gathering Hands: political petitioning and participative subscription in post-Reformation Scotland
No full textThe Power of Petitioning in Early Modern Britain
No full textThe ‘humble petition’ was ubiquitous in early modern society and featured prominently in crucial moments such as the outbreak of the civil wars and in everyday local negotiations about taxation, welfare and litigation. People at all levels of society – from noblemen to paupers – used petitions to make their voices heard and these are valuable sources for mapping the structures of authority and agency that framed early modern society.
The Power of Petitioning in Early Modern Britain offers a holistic study of this crucial topic in early modern British history. The contributors survey a vast range of sources, showing the myriad ways people petitioned the authorities from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. They cross the jurisdictional, sub-disciplinary and chronological boundaries that have otherwise constrained the current scholarly literature on petitioning and popular political engagement. Teasing out broad conclusions from innumerable smaller interventions in public life, they not only address the aims, attitudes and strategies of those involved, but also assesses the significance of the processes they used. This volume makes it possible to rethink the power of petitioning and to re-evaluate broad trends regarding political culture, institutional change and state formation.
Praise for The Power of Petitioning
‘These essays each deepen our understanding of the social and cultural contexts of petitions, but also demonstrate a breadth and richness of approaches for scholars studying these sources. This volume is essential for our understanding of petitioning in transhistorical and comparative perspective.’
Richard Huzzey, University of Durham
‘A stimulating and wide-ranging collection which reflects a new understanding of participatory governance in early modern Britain. From political opinions to poverty and trauma, the authors unfold how women and men used petitions to make their voices heard, and how their concerns politicised daily life.’
Laura Gowing, Kings College Londo
The Power of Petitioning in Early Modern Britain
Full text linkThe ‘humble petition’ was ubiquitous in early modern society and featured prominently in crucial moments such as the outbreak of the civil wars and in everyday local negotiations about taxation, welfare and litigation. People at all levels of society – from noblemen to paupers – used petitions to make their voices heard and these are valuable sources for mapping the structures of authority and agency that framed early modern society.
The Power of Petitioning in Early Modern Britain offers a holistic study of this crucial topic in early modern British history. The contributors survey a vast range of sources, showing the myriad ways people petitioned the authorities from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. They cross the jurisdictional, sub-disciplinary and chronological boundaries that have otherwise constrained the current scholarly literature on petitioning and popular political engagement. Teasing out broad conclusions from innumerable smaller interventions in public life, they not only address the aims, attitudes and strategies of those involved, but also assesses the significance of the processes they used. This volume makes it possible to rethink the power of petitioning and to re-evaluate broad trends regarding political culture, institutional change and state formation
Genre, authorship and authenticity in the petitions of Civil War veterans and widows from north Wales and the Marches
Full text link
Shaping the state from below: the rise of local petitioning in early modern England
Full text linkThe growing power and remit of the state in early modern England was shaped directly and indirectly by new developments in local petitioning. Over the course of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, county and city magistrates received rapidly growing numbers of petitions about practical matters both from individuals and from communities. The range of people involved as initiators, organisers and subscribers of petitions grew alongside this, including substantial numbers of women and poor men as well as many middling male householders. This chapter examines how local petitioning was increasingly encouraged by the reams of new statutory obligations and entitlements created from the mid-sixteenth century onwards. Especially important was the new the fiscal role of parish and county governments in dealing with various forms of poverty, but the novel licencing regime for cottages and alehouses was also significant in spurring engagement. Moreover, these developments were mirrored in how petitioners framed their requests. While traditional appeals to piety and mercy remained important, there seems to have been a growing tendency to highlight impersonal state obligations though the language of ‘law’ and ‘statute’, rather than foregrounding individual paternalist duties. Overall, this chapter shows a growing proportion of ordinary people using petitions to shape the practice of local governance, especially the redistribution of funds via rating and relief systems. They were asking for the state to fulfil its statutory duties and protect their legal rights, often with great success. The symbiotic relationship between statute law, county government and local petitioning thus helped to deepen and strengthen the structure of the English polity. It enabled and encouraged popular participation in the implementation of new policies, especially the enforcing of new fiscal rights and obligations. As such, it gave ordinary people a vital role in what we might call ‘state building from below’
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
- …
