{"title":"Conclusion","authors":"Roze F. Hentschell","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198848813.003.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198848813.003.0007","url":null,"abstract":"The conclusion analyses John Earle’s Microcosmography to emphasize that even the most detailed descriptions of places are necessarily incomplete. Spatial transgression, nostalgia, and the role of texts are discussed. The author points to the potential for future scholarly work on St Paul’s precinct. The role of speculation and imagination in historical geography is discussed. The conclusion ends with a discussion of the 2019 fire at Notre-Dame.","PeriodicalId":264723,"journal":{"name":"St Paul's Cathedral Precinct in Early Modern Literature and Culture","volume":"361 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115896882","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Paul’s Boys","authors":"Roze Hentschell","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198848813.003.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198848813.003.0005","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter focuses on the Children of Paul’s and emphasizes that the boys were choristers for the cathedral first and only occasionally actors. The boys’ spatial milieu, including the Almonry (which likely served as the singing school, residence hall, and ‘theatre’), the chancel, the churchyard, and the grammar school, is discussed. The make-up of the neighbourhood—the precinct and nearby spaces—is examined in order to get a better sense of the audience at Paul’s. Audiences were drawn to plays by Paul’s actors because they were talented singers and educated students. John Marston’s early plays for the Children of Paul’s affirm the distinctiveness of the ‘company’, the playing space, and the talents of the actors. They display a preoccupation with the lives of the boys—as singers, students, and servants—and reveal a rich understanding of the varied roles of the child actor.","PeriodicalId":264723,"journal":{"name":"St Paul's Cathedral Precinct in Early Modern Literature and Culture","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129860188","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Paul’s Nave","authors":"Roze Hentschell","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198848813.003.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198848813.003.0002","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter provides an overview of the architectural features, uses, and users of the nave, with discussion of its physical condition. It also discusses the occupations of the nave—the various church-related and secular practices and professions that were carried out in the interior, and emphasizes the commercial activities, including those of labourers, lawyers, clergy, serving men, and criminals. The chapter looks at the newsmongers and walkers of Paul’s, including John Chamberlain, and attempts to reframe the rituals of their ‘walk’ as purposeful rather than idle. Several literary texts, including those by Thomas Middleton, Ben Jonson, and Thomas Dekker, are discussed. Further, consideration is given to how the nave’s architecture and material features, principally the tombs and monuments influenced the practices by both restricting and affording human agency, all the while affirming the importance of the dead to the living in Paul’s.","PeriodicalId":264723,"journal":{"name":"St Paul's Cathedral Precinct in Early Modern Literature and Culture","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128588989","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Paul’s Cross","authors":"Roze F. Hentschell","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198848813.003.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198848813.003.0003","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter examines Paul’s Cross, the pulpit located in the north-east quadrant of the churchyard, and its material properties and uses, focusing on sermons, the importance of preaching in early modern London, and the sensory spatial practices of sermon attendance at Paul’s. Sermons preached at Paul’s that critiqued and sought to reform the members of the auditory for their primary sin of pride in apparel are analysed. The spotlight on sartorial vanity derives from both a general preoccupation in early modern texts with that particular ‘vice’ and the sense that Paul’s precinct was a common place where it was put on stage. The chapter discusses the jeremiads preached at Paul’s as texts that were significantly influenced by secular literature, including Philip Stubbes’s Anatomie of Abuses as well as verse satire and Thomas Nashe’s Christ’s Teares over Jerusalem, and emphasizes the importance of the site in relation to the message.","PeriodicalId":264723,"journal":{"name":"St Paul's Cathedral Precinct in Early Modern Literature and Culture","volume":"294 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127325563","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}