Early Tudor England : proceedings of the 1987 Harlaxton Symposium

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Early Tudor England : proceedings of the 1987 Harlaxton Symposium

edited by Daniel Williams

Boydell Press, 1989

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Proceedings of the Symposium upon Early Tudor England, held at Harlaxton Manor, Lincolnshire, July 1987

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These essays on the history and artistic and intellectual achievement of the early Tudor period reflect the sense of continuity between the first half of the sixteenth century and the preceding hundred years. The artistic and intellectual dominance of continental influences and fashions, discernible in the previous century, remains: the portrait miniature is a continental off-shoot of manuscript illumination, introduced into England by Lucas Horenbout; theAshwellthorpe triptych acknowledges Netherlandish influence; carved misericords are copies from German and Dutch prints; even the windows of early Tudor courtier houses get their Renaissance influence from French sources. Yet changes in artistic patronage are in the air under Henry VIII as his allies, the new Tudor gentry, become key figures in royal government, and the medieval knight becomes a courtier requiring culture and education.

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  • Illuminated manuscripts and the early development of portrait miniature, Janet Backhouse
  • household servants of the Yorkist and early Tudor gentry, W.Fleming
  • feasting in an early Tudor college - the example of Merton College, Oxford, John M.Fletcher and C.A.Upton
  • a sixteenth-century library - the Francis Trigge chained library of St Wulfram's Church Grantham, John Glenn
  • humour and folly in English misericords of the first quarter of the 16th century, Christa Grossinger
  • the Act of Resumption of 1515, S.J.Gunn
  • the Ashwellthorpe Triptych, Andrew Martindale
  • windows in early Tudor country houses, Richard K.Morris
  • the Denzill Holles Commonplace Book - memoranda of a country gentleman c.1558, Elizabeth Porges Watson
  • Skelton and heresy, John Scattergood
  • the Te Deum altarpiece and the iconography of praise, Pamela Sheingorn
  • Henry VIII and King David, Pamela Tudor-Craig
  • the Catesbys 1485-1568 - the restoration of a family to fortune, grace and favour, Daniel Williams
  • the sermons of Roger Edgeworth - reformation preaching in Bristol, Janet Wilson

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