Archives nationales - France. Royal Museums Greenwich: sea, ships, time and the stars : RMG. Homepage. EMLoT: introduction. Before you start You will better understand and get the most benefit from this website if you read the Introductory paragraphs which follow and the Help section, which explain the kinds of information in the database and how to search it effectively. Because one of our main goals is to help people who want to examine how period documents were used in later writings that inform our understanding of early London theatre history, EMLoT only includes those historical occurrences that got recorded before 1642 and then were copied by others after 1642.
How we know what we know about early London theatres Most of what we know about the early London theatres, which developed before, during and shortly after the life of Shakespeare, has been passed down to us through a complex process of filtration. Documents written at the time have been selected, copied, adapted, and interpreted over subsequent centuries, and that process has shaped our understanding. How EMLoT helps By identifying Sources. Institute of Historical Research | The national centre for history. Pictura Paedagogica Online - Suche im Zeitraum. Caxton's Chaucer - Background to William Caxton's Life. These web pages will give you information on Caxton’s life. The section called Caxton’s England talks about how Caxton worked with others and how he found his readers. It also tells you something about his use of the English language. Caxton’s texts has information about the way Caxton used the English language, about the first book which he printed in English, and about the texts of the two editions of the Canterbury Tales themselves.
Caxton’s technologies gives a brief introduction to printing - then still a relatively new invention - the way in which Caxton used woodcuts and a little about the arrangements of a printer’s workshop in the 15th century. Caxton in the British Library has the detailed bibliographical description of the copies of the two editions which are now here in the British Library. There is a section on John Harris, a craftsman whose remarkable skills in the wrong hands could have been used for forgery.
People in Place: houses, families in early modern London (1550-1720) A family at home. A woodcut from 1612. Families and households are central to our understanding of past and present societies, whether we are examining population change, economy, health, gender roles, or social relationships. This website introduces the methods and findings of a research project focused on family and household in London in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, a period of great social and economic transformation.
The project, 'People in Place; families, households and housing in early modern London, 1550-1720' was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (APN 16429) and ran from October 2003 to November 2006. On this site you will find a brief account of the 'People in Place' project and discussion of its key findings, access to published and unpublished papers and reports, and links to sites where the project's data are archived. back to the top. Geography Department, Cambridge » The Demography of Early Modern London circa 1550 to 1750. London in the early modern period was a rapidly-expanding pre-industrial metropolis, growing from c. 80,000 to over 700,000 inhabitants between 1550 and 1750, coming to contain a tenth of the country's population and perhaps half of its urban population.
This growth was fuelled by high levels of in-migration from elsewhere in England, for very high levels of infant and child mortality precluded the possibility of growth through natural increase. While early modern London was unique for its time, developments there came to have wider significance, for they pre-dated, and to some extent prefigured, the experience of provincial cities that mushroomed in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Map of London sample areas (click on image to enlarge) 1. People in Place (funded by AHRC, 2003-2006) Types of Cheapside inhabitants enumerated for taxation in 1695, comparing their overall proportion to the proportion among them also found in parish registers 2. 3. Publications.
The Material Renaissance:Costs and Consumption in Italy 1300-1650. "The project explored: • The comparative prices of different types of goods in Italy over both time and place • The market for domestic goods such as food and clothing • The market for objects now considered 'art', particularly panel paintings, metalwork and antiquities The project aimed to investigate whether the relationship between the marketplace and individual or institutional artistic patronage changed between the 14th and the 17th centuries. We were particularly interested in asking whether art objects were, as is usually assumed, bought and sold in ways that distinguished them from other commodities.
In addition we questioned the gendered nature of Renaissance consumption, examining how social communities of buyers and sellers were formed, and exploring the different means by which objects were acquired in courts and republican communities" (from project web site: please see for more details). Funding sources: Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), Getty Grant Program. University of York: Urban Manuscripts project homepage. Privately-owned manuscripts, 1300-1476: A Database This project is funded by a three-year grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Board. The aim of the project is to create a database of manuscripts owned or used in urban contexts.
The project aims to address the following questions: who were the private owners of books in late-medieval towns? What did their books contain? The answers to these questions will be presented in the form of a database which will provide for the first time a resource for the systematic study of the literate culture of English townspeople, lay and clerical, in the late Middle Ages. Private ownership The most serious limitation of testamentary studies of book ownership is that wills usually identify the contents of books, if at all, by the first item only.
The late-medieval period The period covered by the project is from around 1300, by which time urban books can be identified in reasonable numbers, until the introduction of printing into England in 1476. British History Online. :: Welcome to the Domesday Explorer Web Site :: School of Critical Studies :: Research :: Funded Research Projects :: Bess of Hardwick.
The Letters of Bess of Hardwick Project is funded by the AHRC Project web site: www.bessofhardwick.org Bess of Hardwick's Letters: The Complete Correspondence, c.1550-1608, ed. by Alison Wiggins, Alan Bryson, Daniel Starza Smith, Anke Timmermann and Graham Williams, University of Glasgow, web development by Katherine Rogers, University of Sheffield Humanities Research Institute (April 2013) Project team Project Leader / Principal Investigator: Dr Alison Wiggins Research Associates: Dr Anke Timmermann (Research Associate – University of Glasgow; Jan. 2010 – June 2011)Dr Graham Williams (Research Associate – University of Glasgow; Oct. 2011 – April 2012)Dr Alan Bryson (Research Associate - University of Glasgow; Oct. 2008 - Sep. 2009)Dr Daniel Starza Smith (Research Associate - University of Glasgow; Oct. 2011 - Dec. 2012) Web development: Katherine Rogers (Digital Humanities Developer – Humanities Research Institute, University of Sheffield) Project aims and outputs.
Scriptorium | Early Modern Handwriting: An Introduction. Materials: Inks, Pens, and Surfaces Oak galls The documents/samples of hands displayed here were written between 1500 and 1690, most or all of them with a goose-quill pen and an iron gall or carbon-based ink. Iron gall ink was made up from galls (usually oak-galls), copperas [copper sulphate] or green vitriol [ferrous sulphate], and gum arabic, in varying proportions; carbon inks were developed using soot.
To either mixture could be added other ingredients affecting the colour and the consistency to suit the immediate purpose: a rapid writer might want his ink runnier, a professional scribe preparing a formal text, a blacker and stickier ink. To make common Inke of wine take a quart Two ounces of Gumme let that be a part, Fiue ounces of Gals, of Copres take three, Long standing doth make it the better to be. 'Rules Made by E. More on ink recipes Different writing surfaces might also call for inks of different viscosity. To take grease out of parchement or paper A bag of pounce A reed pen .. Anglo-Saxon & Medieval.
Medieval resources. Cultural and Historical Contexts.