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
The Millennial of Castile (1943): the historical culture of Spanish Fascism
Abstract The creation of new symbols and historical myths were common practices of nationalist politics, especially in Fascist regimes. In 1943 the Franco regime organized the most impressive historical commemoration celebrated in post-war Spain: the Milenario of Castile. With its heterogeneous mixture of history and spectacle, the Milenario of Castile was by far the greatest historical commemoration promoted by the State during the 1940s. Taking the commemoration of the Milenario as a case study, this article examines the historical culture of Spanish Fascism, as well as the attempts of the Falangist intellectual elite to impose a concrete national narrative in post-war Spain. At the same time, the article analyses the historical discourses and aesthetics displayed throughout the commemoration, underlining its Fascist character, and consequently the transnational dimension of the Fascist politics of the past. Finally, the article reflects on the scope and limits of the process of Fascistisation in Franco's dictatorship, especially in its commemorative culture.