References
Chart showing the number of references in each month of the diary’s entries.
1664
- Jun
Norwich, Norfolk
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The overlays that highlight 17th century London features are approximate and derived from Wenceslaus Hollar’s maps:
- Built-up London – London before the Fire
- City of London wall and Great Fire damage – London after the Fire
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San Diego Sarah • Link
Houses and Society in Norwich, 1350-1660
Urban Buildings in an Age of Transition
by Chris King
First full archaeological study of the urban environment of Norwich when its power was at its height.
Norwich was second only to London in size and economic significance from the late Middle Ages through to the mid-17th century. This book brings together, for the first time, the rich archaeological evidence for urban households and domestic life in Norwich, using surviving buildings, excavated sites, and material culture.
It offers a broad overview of the changing forms, construction and spatial organisation of urban houses during the period, ranging across the social spectrum from the large courtyard mansions occupied by members of the mercantile and civic elite, to the homes of the urban "middling sort" and the small 2- and 3-roomed cottages of the city's weavers and artisans.
The so-called "age of transition" witnessed profound social and economic changes and religious and political upheavals, which Norwich, as a major provincial capital, experienced with particular force and intensity; domestic life was also transformed.
The author examines the twin themes of continuity and change in the material world and the role of the domestic sphere in the expression and negotiation of shifting power relationships, economic structures and social identities in the medieval and early modern city.
Hardcover
9781783275540
October 2020
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9781787449329
October 2020
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330 Pages
12 colour, 80 b/w, 23 line illus.
Boydell Press
San Diego Sarah • Link
'John Cruso of Norwich and Anglo-Dutch Literary Identity in the Seventeenth Century' by Christopher Joby
The first book-length biography of John Cruso of Norwich (b. 1592/3), a second-generation migrant poet, translator and military author, that explores ideas and practices of identity formation in the early modern period.
John Cruso was the eldest son of Flemish migrants, was a man of many parts: Dutch and English poet, translator, military author, virtuoso networker, successful merchant and hosier, Dutch church elder and militia captain.
This first book-length biography, making extensive use of archival and literary sources, reconstructs the life and work of this multi-talented, self-made man, whose literary oeuvre is marked by its polyvocality.
Cruso's poetry includes a Dutch amplificatio on Psalm 8, some 221 Dutch epigrams, and elegies (one of which frames the most important Anglo-Dutch literary moment in the 17th century, a collection of Dutch and Latin elegies which marked the death of the London Dutch church minister, Simeon Ruytinck, and included verses by Constantijn Huygens and Jacob Cats).
As a military author, Cruso published five works, in English, including two translations from the French. These works display his knowledge of the canon of classical and Renaissance literature, which, in turn, allowed him to fashion himself as a miles doctus, a learned soldier, and make a contribution to military science in England prior to and during the English Civil Wars.
In focusing on the rich and varied life and works of John Cruso, this book also explores ideas and practices of identity formation in the early modern period, as well as allowing Cruso's life to shed further light on the migrant experience in 17th-century Norwich.
Joby shows how a second-generation migrant could successfully integrate himself into English society, whilst continuing to engage with his Low Countries heritage.
Prologue
1. Intrat John Cruso
2. John Cruso's school days
3. John Cruso's early adult life
4. Cruso's elegy to Simeon Ruytinck (1622)
5. Cruso the English poet
6. 1632 - Cruso's annus mirabilis
7. Cruso the translator
8. Cruso's 1642 Dutch verses: praise and lamentation
9. Cruso and the English Civil Wars
10.Cruso the Epigrammatist
11. Cruso's final years
Epilogue
Hardcover
9781843846147
January 2022
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9781800104235
January 2022
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408 Pages
23.4 x 15.6 cm
5 b/w, 2 line illus.
Imprint: D.S.Brewer