... poetry alongside each other in manuscript verse anthologies. Much traditional criticism of seventeenth-century English poetry ignores what cultural imports the newly crowned king may have brought with him, and so this chapter argues that there was in fact a dynamic relationship between aspects...

... economy demanded constant crown attention and recognition of the centrality of black pearl divers to the region’s identity, as evidenced by the royal coat of arms granted to Margarita Island in 1600. This era coincided with the political merger of Portugal and Spain, a contentious political union...

...This chapter reports the Scottish National Party (SNP)'s understanding of ‘Britain’. Scotland's incorporation within the UK starts from the 1707 Treaty of Union and the Union of Crowns in 1603. It was noted even before the SNP's electoral victory that inter-governmental communication between London...

...the structure of the world and of the human mind ethnologists invariant relationships morphological laws On Growth and Form Thompson Thompson D’Arcy Wentworth analogy chronophotography closed crowns crowns heraldic symbols nobility crowns open crowns royal crowns gold goldsmithery...

...This book outlines the association between Scotland and England since the Union of the Crowns in 1603. Individual chapters range in focus from the late nineteenth century to the foreseeable future. They cover topics from the monarchy, constitution, parliamentary procedure, public policy and finance...

... of Hildegard’s creations. Her nuns’ use of golden crowns, jewelry, and veils was criticized by Canoness Tenxwind of Andernach but justified by Hildegard; the chapter explores the appearance of these elements in Hildegard’s output. Her interaction with Elisabeth of Schönau is connected to Hildegard’s extensive...

...Chapter 6 analyses the transformations that paved the way, in the 1580s and 1590s, for a policy turn towards an officially sanctioned Iberian conquest of Ceylon. The 1580 donation of Kōṭṭe to the Portuguese crown, which would itself fall into Habsburg hands soon after, emerges as a key moment along...

...’ on the Portuguese imperial apparatus. It is argued that the Iberian Union of crowns served as an opportunity for Portuguese reformists to change their own empire. Although orders for the conquest of Ceylon were issued in Madrid, an intricate web of communications spanning half the globe was ultimately a more...

...The Union of the Crowns in 1603 is the cornerstone of the modern British state, but relations between England and Scotland did not always run smoothly in the following centuries. This volume examines how the neighbouring British nations regarded each other from 1603 to 1900. Why did this union last...

...This chapter explores the pre-history of the Union of 1707. It looks at the Scots’ attitudes to England over the course of the seventeenth century and why there was so much dissatisfaction with the Union of the Crowns of 1603, when James VI of Scotland became monarch of the three kingdoms...

...This chapter examines the Scottish Petrarchans before and after 1603 or the Union of the Crowns. It explains that Petrarch was initially resisted as a model for the connection between poetry and nationhood and that the Scottish sonnet became more anglicised when James VI became King of England...

... through the use of language studies and archaeological evidence. After the 1603 Union of the Crowns, these stories did not change. Yet, questions arose regarding the king's genealogy, as he claimed descent from the great kings of both kingdoms. Consequently, historians re-invented the past to merge...

... of Victoria and her heir, Edward, is examined to illustrate how notions of Scottishness were significant in identifying the attitudes towards the monarchy. It then addresses the period surrounding the coronation of Queen Elizabeth as it took place in 1953, the 350th anniversary of the Union of the Crowns...

...This chapter covers the establishment of the Iberian Union of Crowns in 1580 that facilitated the increased interaction among New Christians across borders, particularly between Lisbon and Madrid. As Lisbon lost its position as a monarchical center, Madrid emerged as a hub attracting a growing...

... to build up the clinically broken down crown. It is retained and supported by remaining tooth structure wherever possible (sometimes including the pulp chamber and posts in root canals of endodontically treated teeth). These large restorations often benefit from further overlying protection to secure...

... Barthianism Reformation Union of the Crowns Disruption nationalism devolution patriotism decolonization public theology political theology Theological constructions of national identity are not always developed by theologians, and are not all equally reflective of good and healthy theological...

... crowns of England, Scotland and Ireland’. As an English lawyer, advanced to act as the chief legal adviser in an Irish corporation riven by confessional and ethnic rivalries, he saw the Stuarts’ problems from an unusual perspective. The multinational monarchy over which Charles II had presided since 1660...

... Isles, including writings about the Highlands and Islands and inner-British power dynamics after the Union of Crowns. The utopian tradition offers ways to understanding the spaces, temporalities, and cultural agents in the emerging Scottish Atlantic, including the tropes of newness and reform as well...

... and material monuments aimed to distil and preserve the special talismanic power (kudos) the victor acquired by victory at the ‘crown games’, anchoring it and sharing it out with the victor’s family and city. At the same time, literary evidence suggests that this elitist valorization...

...This chapter explores the fragmentary evidence of Scottish dramatic culture over the turbulent period of the Presbyterian Reformation, the Union of the Crowns, the Commonwealth, the Restoration, the Glorious Revolution, and the Covenanters. Generally disruptive to Scottish society, Presbyterianism...