Canadian Journal of History articles from December 2003

Canadian Journal of History archives from December 2003

Politics, patronage, and piety in early modern Britan: a special issue in honour of Paul Christianson.(Editorial)
December 1, 2003... The essays in this issue derive from a conference held to mark the occasion of Professor Paul Christianson's retirement from active duties at Queen's University. A group of historians and literary scholars drawn from Canada, Great Britain, and...

Paul Christianson as scholar and teacher.
December 1, 2003... Very few occasions in the life of an academic administrator, or even a professor, can be described as absolutely delightful. This is surely one of them. It gives me enormous pleasure to have the honour of introducing, on the occasion of his...

From a View to a Discovery: Edmund Spenser, Sir John Davies, and the defects of law in the realm of Ireland.
December 1, 2003... I Over the course of the past two decades, Nicholas Canny has argued that Edmund Spenser's A View of the Present State of Ireland stands at the centre of the British colonial project in Ireland as a paradigmatic text. The program laid out...

Common and civil law? Taking possession of the English empire in America, 1575-1630 (1).
December 1, 2003... Most historians inform us that the legal foundations of the English empire in America were based on the common law. Founded on ancient custom and interpreted by important writers such as Ranulf de Glanvill, Henry de Bracton, and--in the Tudor...

Ancient and reformed?: Thomas Bell and Jacobean conformist thought.
December 1, 2003... One of the themes explored in Paul Christianson's Reformers and Babylon is the use of an apocalyptic vision to recast the history of Christianity. (1) English reformers who opposed the modes of rites and governance of the established Church...

Oh, what a lovely war? War, taxation, and public opinion in England, 1624-29 (1).
December 1, 2003... The wars against Spain and France which inaugurated Charles I's reign formed a notably inglorious chapter in the annals of English martial history. The new king and his favourite, the Duke of Buckingham, seized one of the brief moments when the...

"This confused, divided and wretched City": the struggle for London in 1642-43.
December 1, 2003... "THIS CONFUSED, DIVIDED AND WRETCHED CITY": THE STRUGGLE FOR LONDON IN 1642-43 The populace of London, that "proud rebellious city" as the royalists characterized it, was initially enthusiastic for parliament's war against the king. After...

Sir Simonds D'Ewes and "the poitovin cholick": persecution, toleration, and the mind of a puritan member of the Long Parliament.(Biography)
December 1, 2003... SIR SIMONDS D'EWES AND "THE POITOVIN CHOLICK": PERSECUTION, TOLERATION, AND THE MIND OF A PURITAN MEMBER OF THE LONG PARLIAMENT It is a great pleasure to honor Paul Christianson by discussing patronage, piety, and politics in early modern...

Papacy, Parish Churches, and prophecy: the Popish Plot and the London Particular Baptists--a case study.
December 1, 2003... I. Introduction On 13 August 1678, King Charles II was made aware of details of a supposed conspiracy by Jesuits to assassinate him. In the ensuing days, more details of the "plot" came to light, culminating on 6 September when Titus...

The patience of the saints, the apocalypse, and moderate nonconformity in Restoration England.
December 1, 2003... The convention of dividing studies of the political history of seventeenth-century England at 1660 has entrenched certain assumptions about the divergent characteristics of the years preceding and those following that supposed watershed. It has...

Lockean essences, political posturing, and John Toland's reading of Isaac Newton's principia (1).
December 1, 2003... LOCKEAN ESSENCES, POLITICAL POSTURING, AND JOHN TOLAND'S READING OF ISAAC NEWTON'S PRINCIPIA (1) With a letter published in the first issue of the Post Man for February 1720 the Irish-born deist, John Toland (1670-1722), responded to...

"A time and times and the dividing of time": Isaac Newton, the Apocalypse, and 2060 A.D.(Biography)
December 1, 2003... And one said to the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, 'How long shall it be to the end of these wonders? 'And I heard the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, when he hem up...

Rewriting Cromwell: a case of deafening silences.(Biography)
December 1, 2003... I In December 1999, the BBC ran a competition amongst its listeners for the UK "person of the Millennium." On Millennium Eve 1999 they announced the result. First, by a distance, was William Shakespeare. Second was Winston Churchill and...