{"title":"Foreign Bodies","authors":"A. Dunlop, Cordelia Warr","doi":"10.7227/bjrl.95.2.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7227/bjrl.95.2.1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":80816,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin. John Rylands University Library of Manchester","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43671654","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":"Foreign Bodies in the Nuremberg Chronicle","authors":"D. Strickland","doi":"10.7227/bjrl.95.2.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7227/bjrl.95.2.2","url":null,"abstract":"Hartmann Schedel’s Liber Chronicarum (1493), better known as the Nuremberg Chronicle, pictures and describes world civilisations and illustrious individuals from Creation to 1493. Although its sources and circumstances of production have been extensively explored, the cultural significance of its many woodcut images has received far less attention. This preliminary study highlights relationships between images, audience and the humanist agenda of Schedel and his milieu by examining selected representations of cultural outsiders with reference to external illustrated genres that demonstrated the centrality of Others in German Christian culture. I argue that the Chronicle’s images of ‘foreign bodies’ harnessed their audience’s established fascination with monsters, wonders, witchcraft, Jews and the Ottoman Turks to advance the German humanist goal of elevating the position of Germania on the world historical stage and in so doing, contributed to the emerging idea of a German national identity.","PeriodicalId":80816,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin. John Rylands University Library of Manchester","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48405222","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":"The Devil and the Detail","authors":"H. Pierce","doi":"10.7227/bjrl.95.2.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7227/bjrl.95.2.4","url":null,"abstract":"An Impartial Collection of the Great Affairs of State was published in London, in two volumes, between 1682 and 1683. Its author John Nalson was a fervent believer in the twin pillars of the monarchy and the Anglican Church. In An Impartial Collection he holds up the internecine conflict of the 1640s as an example not to be followed during the 1680s, a period of further religious and political upheaval. Nalson’s text is anything but neutral, and its perspective is neatly summarised in the engraved frontispiece which prefaces the first volume. This article examines how this illustration, depicting a weeping Britannia accosted by a two-faced clergyman and a devil, adapts and revises an established visual vocabulary of ‘otherness’, implying disruption to English lives and liberties with origins both foreign and domestic. Such polemical imagery relies on shock value and provocation, but also contributes to a sophisticated conversation between a range of pictorial sources, reshaping old material to new concerns, and raising important questions regarding the visual literacy and acuity of its viewers.","PeriodicalId":80816,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin. John Rylands University Library of Manchester","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47581271","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":"Sanctioned by Government? The Home Office, Peterloo and the Six Acts","authors":"N. Bend","doi":"10.7227/BJRL.95.1.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7227/BJRL.95.1.2","url":null,"abstract":"The role of the Home Office in the Peterloo Massacre remains contentious. This\u0000 article assesses the available evidence from the Home Office and the private\u0000 correspondence of Home Secretary Viscount Sidmouth to contest E. P.\u0000 Thompson’s claim that the Home Office ‘assented’ to the\u0000 arrest of Henry Hunt at St Peter’s Fields. Peterloo is placed within the\u0000 context of government’s response to political radicalism to show how the\u0000 Tory ministry had no clear counter-radical strategy in the months leading up to\u0000 the August event. The article further argues that although the Home Office may\u0000 not have assented to forceful intervention on the day, the event and its\u0000 aftermath were needed to justify the Six Acts which would ultimately cripple the\u0000 reform movement.","PeriodicalId":80816,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin. John Rylands University Library of Manchester","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.7227/BJRL.95.1.2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44444790","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":"The Multiple Geographies of Peterloo and Its Impact in Britain","authors":"K. Navickas","doi":"10.7227/BJRL.95.1.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7227/BJRL.95.1.1","url":null,"abstract":"The Peterloo Massacre was more than just a Manchester event. The attendees, on\u0000 whom Manchester industry depended, came from a large spread of the wider textile\u0000 regions. The large demonstrations that followed in the autumn of 1819,\u0000 protesting against the actions of the authorities, were pan-regional and\u0000 national. The reaction to Peterloo established the massacre as firmly part of\u0000 the radical canon of martyrdom in the story of popular protest for democracy.\u0000 This article argues for the significance of Peterloo in fostering a sense of\u0000 regional and northern identities in England. Demonstrators expressed an\u0000 alternative patriotism to the anti-radical loyalism as defined by the\u0000 authorities and other opponents of mass collective action.","PeriodicalId":80816,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin. John Rylands University Library of Manchester","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.7227/BJRL.95.1.1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44708389","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":"The Manchester Observer","authors":"R. Poole","doi":"10.7227/BJRL.95.1.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7227/BJRL.95.1.3","url":null,"abstract":"The newly digitised Manchester Observer (1818–22) was\u0000 England’s leading radical newspaper at the time of the Peterloo meeting\u0000 of August 1819, in which it played a central role. For a time it enjoyed the\u0000 highest circulation of any provincial newspaper, holding a position comparable\u0000 to that of the Chartist Northern Star twenty years later and\u0000 pioneering dual publication in Manchester and London. Its columns provide\u0000 insights into Manchester’s notoriously secretive local government and\u0000 policing and into the labour and radical movements of its turbulent times. Rich\u0000 materials in the Home Office papers in the National Archives reveal much about\u0000 the relationship between radicals in London and in the provinces, and show how\u0000 local magistrates conspired with government to hound the radical press in the\u0000 north as prosecutions in London ran into trouble. This article also sheds new\u0000 light on the founding of the Manchester Guardian, which endured\u0000 as the Observer’s successor more by avoiding its\u0000 disasters than by following its example. Despite the imprisonment of four of its\u0000 main editors and proprietors the Manchester Observer battled on\u0000 for five years before sinking in calmer water for lack of news.","PeriodicalId":80816,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin. John Rylands University Library of Manchester","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.7227/BJRL.95.1.3","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45101972","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":"How the King of the Witches Dusted the Books: Alex Sanders at the John Rylands Library","authors":"G. Lindop","doi":"10.7227/BJRL.94.2.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7227/BJRL.94.2.5","url":null,"abstract":"Alex Sanders (1926–88), one of the founders of modern pagan witchcraft in\u0000 the UK, worked briefly at the John Rylands Library in 1962 as a book duster\u0000 before being dismissed for ‘neglect of his duties’. The full\u0000 circumstances were more complex, and although Sanders is now the subject of an\u0000 article in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography the\u0000 episode has never been fully investigated. This article makes use of all\u0000 relevant sources, including unpublished records at the John Rylands Library,\u0000 books damaged by Sanders, and interviews with former staff, to establish what\u0000 happened and what bearing the events had on Sanders’s future career as an\u0000 occultist and propagator of pagan witchcraft.","PeriodicalId":80816,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin. John Rylands University Library of Manchester","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.7227/BJRL.94.2.5","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42979779","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":"Reading John Wesley through Seventeenth-Century Continental European Reformed Theologians","authors":"Andrew Kloes","doi":"10.7227/BJRL.94.2.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7227/BJRL.94.2.3","url":null,"abstract":"This article analyses the theological development of the eighteenth-century\u0000 Church of England priest Augustus Montague Toplady through two manuscript\u0000 collections. The first of these is a copy of John Wesley’s\u0000 Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament that Toplady heavily\u0000 annotated during his time as a university student in 1758. This book is held in\u0000 the Methodist Archives and Research Centre at the John Rylands Library.\u0000 Toplady’s handwritten notes total approximately 6,000 words and provide\u0000 additional information regarding the development of his views of John Wesley and\u0000 Methodism, ones which he would not put into print until 1769. Toplady’s\u0000 notes demonstrate how he was significantly influenced by the works of certain\u0000 Dutch, German and Swiss Reformed theologians. The second is a collection of\u0000 Toplady’s papers held by Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. Together,\u0000 these sources enable Toplady’s own theology and his controversies with\u0000 Methodists to be viewed from a new perspective. Moreover, these sources provide\u0000 new insights into Toplady’s conceptualisation of\u0000 ‘Calvinism’ and changes in the broader Anglican Reformed tradition\u0000 during the eighteenth century.","PeriodicalId":80816,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin. John Rylands University Library of Manchester","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.7227/BJRL.94.2.3","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43257870","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":"The Story of the Mordaunt Letter-book of 1660 in the Rylands Library","authors":"Cedric C. Brown","doi":"10.7227/BJRL.94.2.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7227/BJRL.94.2.2","url":null,"abstract":"This article gives new information on the so-called Letter-book\u0000 of John, Viscount Mordaunt (Rylands MS GB 133) beyond that in RHS Camden Series\u0000 LXIX, identifies the likely scribe, and dates the transcription to late 1660. It\u0000 shows how the large format book was created to record the heroic role played by\u0000 Mordaunt and his wife Elizabeth (née Carey) in the achievement of\u0000 Restoration, and how the unfinished state of the textual project adds to our\u0000 knowledge of the social and political difficulties experienced by Mordaunt, a\u0000 client of Clarendon. Beyond its historiographical value for understanding the\u0000 activities of the plenipotentiary, the book helps to tell the story of\u0000 Mordaunt’s headlong career from his treason trial in 1658 to his\u0000 impeachment in 1667, the extraordinary supportive agency of Elizabeth, including\u0000 managing secret correspondence in 1659, the complexities of the\u0000 Mordaunts’ friendship with John Evelyn, and their loyalty to their fallen\u0000 patron Clarendon extending to exile in Montpellier in 1668.","PeriodicalId":80816,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin. John Rylands University Library of Manchester","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.7227/BJRL.94.2.2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44528052","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":"The Empress, the Elector and the Painter","authors":"Ben Pope","doi":"10.7227/BJRL.94.2.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7227/BJRL.94.2.1","url":null,"abstract":"German MS. 2 is a previously unstudied armorial dating from the mid-sixteenth\u0000 century. This article shows that it was produced in the workshop of Lucas\u0000 Cranach the Younger for Elector August of Saxony, and that it was copied from an\u0000 earlier armorial of c.1500 which was kept in Cranach’s\u0000 workshop, probably as reference material. Much of the original content and\u0000 structure of this ‘old armorial’ has been preserved in Rylands\u0000 German 2. On this basis, the original armorial can be located in a late\u0000 fifteenth-century Upper German tradition of armorial manuscripts known as the\u0000 ‘Bodensee’ group. It was also closely linked to the Habsburg\u0000 dynasty, and appears to have been dedicated to Empress Bianca Maria Sforza. The\u0000 armorial therefore opens significant new perspectives on the relationships\u0000 between artists and heraldry and between women and heraldic knowledge, and on\u0000 ways of visualising the Holy Roman Empire through heraldry.","PeriodicalId":80816,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin. John Rylands University Library of Manchester","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.7227/BJRL.94.2.1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47806589","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}