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From Middle Temple to Manoa: global networks at the early modern Inns of Court
Published 2021“…</p> <p>The exhibition links global networks of trade and exploration to social and literary networks at the Elizabethan and Jacobean Inns of Court, with particular focus on the Middle Temple. …”
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Timon of Athens (1606?) and Timon (1602?): Rhetorical and Ritualistic Violence
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Composition as Reception: An English Version of Classics
Published 2024-04-01“…The practice of this kind of composition became characteristic of the shared masculine world of the public schools, the universities, the London clubs and the Inns of Court. The varieties and development of this practice are surveyed, in the hope of encouraging further and more detailed analysis. …”
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A Transcription and Translation of Sloane MS. 2131, Robert Ashley’s (1561-1641) Vita: with Additional Biographical Details
Published 2021-12-01“…Ashley bequeathed his collection of approximately 5000 books to establish a library at Middle Temple, one of the four Inns of Court. This is the first full transcription and translation of Ashley’s manuscript to be published. …”
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« Lo, here I lie » : les jeux du paradoxe chez Donne
Published 2021-05-01“…It points out that together with his peers from the Inns of Court and “convivial societies” he contributed to the rise of a playful ex tempore poetry at a time when collections of paradoxical statements and pseudo-encomiums had become very popular. …”
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New ways of looking into handwritten miscellanies of the seventeenth century: the case of “Spes Altera”
Published 2020-12-01“…In our view, they are the product of a conscious rewriting on the part of some educated member of the universities or Inns of Court. Close reading of the manuscript copy text (Spes Altera, Bellasys Ms, c.1630), and a line by line comparison with the 1609 Q text, suggest a deliberate attempt on the part of its adapter at increasing the poem’s metrical regularity and structural coherence.…”
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The Flâneuse and the Experience of Modernity
Published 2021-12-01“…It is structured as a walk around four different parts of London, each dense with meaning, of which three are highly visible and dominant: the Thames Embankment opposite the Houses of Parliament: the Law Courts and Temple (the enclosed areas of the Inns of Court where lawyers practice): the Shard (the Quatari skyscraper at London Bridge), and finally a street market on the Walworth Road. …”
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Rules and Textual Construction of the Vocational Practices of Actors and Lawyers in Early Modern England
Published 2012-03-01“…It argues that, although these represented different social actions and therefore two separate universes of discourse, they closely interacted in many ways (it is well known, for instance, that theatrical performances were one of the activities of the Inns of Court), thus creating opportunities of cross-fertilization. …”
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‘An Instrument of Reason’: William Scott’s logical poetics
Published 2015“…If we pay careful attention to its mediation of that culture, it promises to enlarge our understanding of the literary world inhabited by Jonson, Shakespeare, and Scott’s peers at the Inns of Court.…”
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Containing Eve’s daughters? The education, fashioning and socialisation of women within three elite households of the West Country c. 1525-1660.
Published 2016“…As early modern English women did not access the formal educational institutions of the universities or the Inns of Court, this thesis encourages a broader definition of education, to include teaching and vocational training in informal settings. …”
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Performing the Arthurian legend in late Elizabethan and early Jacobean England c. 1575-1610
Published 2022“…Rather, by scrutinizing progress entertainments, archery pageants, Inns of Court plays, tournament shows, and court masques, it reveals how performance cultures in this period shaped and were shaped by the Arthurian legend. …”
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'We have a constant will to publish': the publishers of Shakespeare's First Folio
Published 2015“…These case studies focus on the authoritative reference publishing of the Jaggards, the religious publishing of William Aspley, the geographical location of John Smethwick's publishing business beside the Inns of Court, and the cultural achievements of Edward Blount. …”
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The education and literary interests of the English lay nobility, c. 1150-c. 1450
Published 1983“…Recorded instances of nobles at school, at Oxford or Cambridge, or at the Inns of Court are rare, but by the fifteenth century educational opportunities were widening. …”
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Studies in some related manuscipt poetic miscellanies of the 1580s
Published 1970“…Although most of these poems were never published, they circulated in manuscript among minor courtiers and students at the Universities and Inns of Court. Six of these miscellanies share a number of poems in common and have texts which are sometimes related; they provide the main focus of these studies. …”
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Law of the Strongest? A Global Approach of Access to Law Studies and Its Social and Professional Impact in British India (1850s–1940s)
Published 2021-03-01“…Being admitted into an Inn of Court, they could consequently become barristers, a title that was not available for holders of an Indian degree. …”
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