The Jacobean Grand Tour: Early Stuart Travellers in Europe
Although the eighteenth century is traditionally seen as the age of the Grand Tour, it was in fact the continental travel of Jacobean noblemen which really constituted the beginning of the Tour as an institutionalized phenomenon. James I's peace treaty with Spain in 1604 rendered travel to Catholic Europe both safer and more respectable than it had been under the Tudors and opened up the continent to a new generation of aristocratic explorers, enquirers and adventurers. This book examines the political and cultural significance of the encounters that resulted, focusing in particular on two of England's greatest, and newly united, families: the Cecils and the Howards. It also considers the ways in which Protestants and Catholics experienced the aesthetic and intellectual stimulus of European travel and how the cultural experiences of the travellers formed the essential ingredients in what became the Grand Tour.
Chaplains in early modern England: Patronage, literature and religion
1. Introduction - Hugh Adlington, Tom Lockwood, Gillian Wright 2. The roles and influence of household chaplains, c. 1600-c. 60 - Kenneth Fincham 3. Chaplains to the Elizabethan nobility: Activities, categories and patterns - David Crankshaw 4. Episcopal chaplains and control of the media, 1586-1642 - Mary Morrissey 5. Chaplains to embassies: Daniel Featley, Anti-Catholic controversialist abroad - Hugh Adlington 6. Poetry, patronage and cultural agency: the career of William Lewis - Tom Lockwood 7. 'His lordships first, and last, CHAPLEINE': William Rawley and Francis Bacon - Angus Vine 8. Richard Corbett and William Strode: Chaplaincy and verse in early seventeenth-century Oxford - Christopher Burlinson 9. The Isham family and their clergy - Erica Longfellow 10. A chaplain and his patron: Samuel Willes and Lord Huntingdon - William Gibson 11. The reluctant chaplain: William Sancroft and the later Stuart Church - Grant Tapsell Select bibliography Index
Reid on Hypotheses and the Ether; A Reassessment
In recent years historians of science have come to see that Thomas Reid’s Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man had a profound impact on the development of British methodological thought in the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries. Larry Laudan has argued that Reid was “the first major British philosopher to take Newton’s opinions on induction, causality, and hypotheses seriously”; and that Reid was thereby instrumental in changing the character of British methodological discourse in the Enlightenment.(1) Geoffrey Cantor has examined in detail the influence of Reid’s critique of ether theories and hypotheses in the Essays on leading protagonists in the nineteenth-century debates surrounding the wave theory of light,(2) and Richard Olson has traced the origins of the scientific style of British physics in the Victorian period to the writings of Reid and other Common Sense philosophers. (3) As well as delineating Reid’s influence, Laudan, Cantor, and Olson have attempted to identify the problems to which he addressed himself in articulating his methodology, and they have analysed with some care the internal structure of his methodological views. Thanks to the work of these historians, therefore, we have a fairly comprehensive picture of Reid’s methodology and its fortunes in the nineteenth century.