...This chapter opens with a short consideration of William Camden, England's first major historian. It focuses on the governance of the body politic, and the way in which major poetry between the later years of Elizabeth I and the later years of William III was aware of and intervened in discussion...

...One of the best-informed essays on William Camden was written by its quondam president, Sir Maurice Powicke. As Powicke reminds us, Camden was a cosmopolitan. So to ask whether he was one of the many is to face a paradox. Yet it was with Camden's works that this insular detachment began...

... Court Conference Articles of Perth Luther centenary sacrilege Francis Godwin John Hayward Henry Spelman William Camden I will tell you a tale. After that the Religion restored by King Edwarde the sixt was soone ouerthrowne, by the succession of Queene Marie...

... of the mythologized English-as-British past, and burgeoning theories of English exceptionalism that fuelled colonization. Great Britain British Empire coronation music Englishness whiteness Henry Purcell John Blow John Norden William Camden Henry Peacham Around twenty years after the Interregnum, twenty...

.... Ralph, c.1800. National Library of Wales. Figure 1.3 Title page and frontispiece from the Gibson-Lhuyd edition of William Camden, Britannia, or a chorographicall description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland and Ireland (1695...

..., is also the matter, in both the textual and physical senses, of a remembered native literary tradition. The activities of Matthew Parker, John Bale, William Camden, John Dee, John Stow, Robert Cotton, and the circle of the Elizabethan Society of Antiquaries in seeking out, studying, lending...

.... It also explains in detail the focus of each chapter of the entire book. The History of the World Ross Alexander historical counsel historical scholarship early modern Tower of London Cadiz Niccolo Machiavelli William Camden Robert Cotton William Lambarde Jacobean regime historicist The captive...

... enclosure McRae Andrew Hunter Lynette All–de Edward printer Bridgewater Library Erne Lukas Speed John Stationers’ Company Folger Shakespeare Library Lunow Robert common topography numbers British Museum Raymond Joad Shagan Ethan users Pepys Samuel Alleyn Edward Ben Jonson William Camden...

...Chorography, a distinctive textual form devoted to describing the history and geography of the land, flourished in England and Wales from the late decades of the sixteenth century into the early decades of the seventeenth century. In this period numerous authors, including William Camden, William...

... Macpherson James Ossian Scotland Barzaz Breiz Eisteddfods Interceltic Congresses La Villemarqué Vicomte Hersart de Le Men R F Williams Edward nationalism romanticism symbolism archaeology Julius Caesar William Camden David Edmund Gibson language John Leland Edward Lhuyd James Macpherson...

... a good deal of cutthroat competition in Tudor England, there was a notion that there ought to be only one more or less official and reliably authentic account of the recoverable past. Commentators on William Camden's Annales have often assumed that the book was a celebration of a great...

... historians in original compositions supporting their favoured policies. Burghley repeatedly demonstrated his appreciation of the possibilities of strategic historical publication. In his old age, for example, he suggested that his client William Camden write a history of Queen Elizabeth I’s reign from his...

... the character and history of England and establishing an identity for the English. In this context, William Camden's influential volume Britannia used classical texts to construct an ancestral geography for the kingdom. This chapter focuses on Camden's image of the character of the Picts' Wall...

... Enlightenment Hume David Truth Voltaire Gossman Lionel Hübner Johann Interpretation Old Testament Alexander the Great Fichte Johann Gibbon Edward Carlyle Thomas Michelet Jules Witchcraft Democracy Feminist history America Race William Camden Thomas Carlyle Donation of Constantine John Earle...

...This chapter examines how writers in the past perceived the different pays of the regional study area. It starts with the sixteenth-century topographers, John Leland and William Camden; then moves on the seventeenth century with the views of both national travellers, such as Celia...

... methods of ascertaining accurate information about the past. William Camden, the author of Annals of Elizabeth (1615, Latin) and Britannia (1586, Latin), wrote a new kind of history: dispassionate, based on reliable evidence, and concerned with changes in society. Fifty...

... and publication of works of Norman historiography which encompassed the Conquest: William of Jumièges, William of Poitiers, and Orderic Vitalis. It pays a great deal of attention to William Camden and Robert Cotton. The chapter culminates with a discussion of John Selden’s edition of Eadmer’s Historia...

... Trumpet Lane Henry VIII Lydgate John Knight’s Tale Chaucer Worden Blair Bevis of Hampton Richard Coeur de Lion Sir Isumbras Edmund Spenser Geoffrey Chaucer John Lane Faerie Queene Squire’s Tale Monument Ruin antiquarianism William Camden My Shakespeare, rise; I will not lodge thee...

... for understanding the contemporary writings of such figures as Richard Hooker, William Camden, and William Shakespeare. Few matters loomed more prominently within the imagination of the British reformers than the war with the Iberian global empire. For the reformers and indeed most Scots and 344 Englishmen...

...In his Annales of Queen Elizabeth (1615, 1625), William Camden presented Elizabeth's success in managing the nation's commercial and financial interests as a product of her rejection of any selfish goals, and her absolute commitment to the interests and welfare of the Commonwealth...