John Foxe's Book of Martyrs (1563-1570) is one of the most famous books in the canon of English Literature. And, among famous books, it is one of the least read. Ever since the day of its publication, just 400 years ago, it has always enjoyed some sort of fame and, at times, notoriety. We have much evidence attesting the book's long-established fame and many reasons for its diminished popularity. [...]

José M.F. Moura and Sanjoy K. Mitter. / Bibliography: p. 21-23. / Army Research Office contract DAAG-29-84-K-005

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The French Wars of Religion were more than a battle for outright military victory. They were also a battle for the hearts and minds of the population of France. In this struggle to win over public opinion, often apparently peripheral or collateral issues could be engaged to make partisan points. Such was the case with the polemical literature surrounding Mary Queen of Scots. Mary was a very French figure. But Mary's complex career- her brief marriage to the dauphin Francois, her adoption of a tolerant religious policy in Scotland, her implication in the murder of her husband, and her imprisonment and execution at the hands of a Protestant monarch - inevitably made her an ambiguous subject for polemicists, Catholic and Huguenot alike. Based on a bibliographic survey of over four hundred and twenty sixteenth century editions in French relative to the Queen, and extensive reading of these works, this study explores both the general contours and finer detail of French public interest in the Queen of Scots. Chapter one discusses the shifting historical relationship between Mary and France, while chapters two and three deal with the steady stream of Catholic and Huguenot publications relating to Mary that appeared in the public domain between 1548 and 1586. The heart of this study, however, can be found in its final two chapters, which deal with the polemical literature that poured off the presses in response to the execution or martyrdom of Mary. These chapters investigate the interface between the printed word and other media in the Catholic response to the 'tragedy' of Fotheringhay, and examine the many facets of the image of the martyred Queen. The martyrdom of the Queen of Scots and dowager Queen of France became one of the most prominent themes in the propaganda of the Catholic League. Over one fifth of Catholic polemic in the period 1587-1588 touched on the event, contributing to the radicalisation of popular opinion against the king of France, Henri III.

The aim of this thesis is to compare the poetic delineation of the character of Satan in Paradise Lost with that of Lucifer in Lucifer and Adam in Ballingschap, and to consider the influence of the genre in each case , not in order to prove similarities or differences , but rather to allow the characters to illuminate each other. Both Satan and Lucifer develop progressively from angel to devil in the course of the poem or play. However, this process is more than just a physical metamorphosis, or even a moral degeneration. It is in each case a process of identity change, intensely and consciously experienced by the character. The fall is a movement from God to Self. The unfallen creature's integrity consists in his submergence in the Being and Will of God; for the fallen creature integrity means a separate, independent self-hood. In rebelling against their role and duty as Archangel, Satan and Lucifer rebel against submergence in the Being of God and thus against their very nature and the order of things. Consequently they experience personal and psychological disintegration. From this condition of imbalance and uncertainty they both develop to a new state of personal reintegration and unequivocal identity, now as Arch-fiend. In neither case is the process instant or entirely concurrent with the physical fall into Hell. Rather, it is protracted, hence the division of this thesis into sections that focus on the different stages in the development: Archangel, Arch-rebel and Arch- fiend (introduction, p. ii-iii).

This dissertation provides a critical old-spelling edition of George whetstone's An Heptameron of Civill Discourses (1582). The text follows the principles formulated by McKerrow, Greg, and Bowers. Ten known extant copies of the Heptameron have been collated: the Folger Shakespeare Library STC 25337, copy 3, has been used as the control text. The textual apparatus includes a textual introduction, a bibliographical description of the Heptameron, and lists of substantive emendations, emendations of accidentals, press variants, and variants in the 1593 edition, entitled Aurelia, The Paragon of Pleasure and Princely Delights. The critical introduction summarizes Whetstone's life and works; relates the Heptameron to the Renaissance interest in Italy, to the ideal of civility, to courtesy literature, to dialogue literature, to marriage literature, and to Renaissance prose fiction; discusses Whetstone's sources; and examines the book's structure. The notes explain mythological, historical, literary, and contemporary allusions; identify proverbs; suggest sources; and illustrate the accuracy of Whetstone's observations on Italy. A bibliography, a glossary, and indices of proper nouns, stories, and first lines of poems complete the critical apparatus. The dissertation shows that Whetstone, drawing both on his own experience of Italy and on a variety of literary traditions and sources, fuses fact and fancy into a carefully constructed literary work, in which discussions, dramatic entertainments, poems, and tales are thematically integrated, progressing towards a definite resolution in the Seventh Day's Exercise. / Arts, Faculty of / English, Department of / Graduate

本文擬以西方「軍事革命」理論的角度，探討萬曆朝鮮戰爭時期，明軍薊鎮部隊的作戰表現。戚繼光「軍事革命」獨特之處在於，除訓練單兵作戰技巧外，亦重視部隊戰術隊型、協同作戰及指揮系統。從對抗倭寇時的步兵鴛鴦陣開始，至薊鎮抗虜時發展出步兵、騎兵、車兵、炮兵的協同作戰，是戚繼光「軍事革命」的主要元素。「戚家軍」戰鬥力之強勁，即根源於此。得益於戚繼光「軍事革命」的薊鎮部隊，是當時被成為「南兵」的主要部隊之一，在朝鮮戰場上更大放異彩，作戰表現遠勝明軍中的北兵。 / This thesis studies the performance of the Jizhen(薊鎮) Army during the Korean War (1592-1598) from the perspective of the "Military Revolution" theory. It argues that the Qi Jigunag revolutionized the training of the Ming army by focusing more on tactical formation, on coordination among different forces, on improving the commanding system, and also on more practical and united training of soldiers. As a result, the Ming army from Jizhen, also known as "the Southern Army", trained by the Qi Jiguang model, excelled in the Korean theatre by their military prowess and their good discipline and distinguished themselves from the more unruly and less competent Ming forces from the Northeast. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / 葉家銘. / Parallel title from English abstract. / Thesis (M.Phil.) Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2015. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 95-99). / Abstracts also in English. / Ye Jiaming.

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / O Tratado Descritivo do Brasil em 1587 de Gabriel Soares de Sousa é uma das maiores referências escritas para a historiografia colonial brasileira. Rico em informações sobre a nova terra, a autoria do texto foi identificada por Francisco Adolpho de Varnhagen, em 1838, num exercício de crítica documental. O colono português chegou ao Brasil em 1569, tornou-se senhor de engenhos, foi explorador de riquezas pelo rio São Francisco e apresentou seus escritos à corte de Filipe II, no período da união das coroas. Mas além do conteúdo valioso do discurso, há uma biografia aventuresca a envolvê-lo, relacionando diversos aspectos presentes no processo de colonização e ainda a fascinante história da descoberta dos textos coloniais e de suas leituras. / The text named Tratado Descritivo do Brasil em 1587, by Gabriel Soares de Sousa is one of the greatest written references for the brazilian colonial historiografy. Rich in information about the new land, the authorship of the text was identified by Francisco Adolpho de Varnhagen, in 1838, in an exercise of documental critic. The Portuguese colonist arrived in Brazil in 1569, and became gentleman of devices, explored all over San Francisco River and presented his writings to the court of Philippe II, during the period of the union of the crowns. But beyond the valuable content of the speech, there is an incredible biography involving it and relating diverse aspects presents in the process of settling; there is the fascinating history of the discovery of the colonial texts and its readings.

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / O Tratado Descritivo do Brasil em 1587 de Gabriel Soares de Sousa é uma das maiores referências escritas para a historiografia colonial brasileira. Rico em informações sobre a nova terra, a autoria do texto foi identificada por Francisco Adolpho de Varnhagen, em 1838, num exercício de crítica documental. O colono português chegou ao Brasil em 1569, tornou-se senhor de engenhos, foi explorador de riquezas pelo rio São Francisco e apresentou seus escritos à corte de Filipe II, no período da união das coroas. Mas além do conteúdo valioso do discurso, há uma biografia aventuresca a envolvê-lo, relacionando diversos aspectos presentes no processo de colonização e ainda a fascinante história da descoberta dos textos coloniais e de suas leituras. / The text named Tratado Descritivo do Brasil em 1587, by Gabriel Soares de Sousa is one of the greatest written references for the brazilian colonial historiografy. Rich in information about the new land, the authorship of the text was identified by Francisco Adolpho de Varnhagen, in 1838, in an exercise of documental critic. The Portuguese colonist arrived in Brazil in 1569, and became gentleman of devices, explored all over San Francisco River and presented his writings to the court of Philippe II, during the period of the union of the crowns. But beyond the valuable content of the speech, there is an incredible biography involving it and relating diverse aspects presents in the process of settling; there is the fascinating history of the discovery of the colonial texts and its readings.

This thesis offers an edition of the English and Latin poems found in MS. Folger bd with STC 22957, attributed to Henry Vaux (c. 1559—1587), a recusant, priest-smuggler, and child prodigy. THE TEXT of the edition is preceded by an introduction comprising three parts: a GENERAL INTRODUCTION describing Vaux‘s socio-historical and biographical context; a CRITICAL INTRODUCTION describing the Medieval and Early Modern literary contexts of Vaux‘s poems and the forms, traditions, topoi, and conventions adhered to in them; and a TEXTUAL INTRODUCTION describing the seventeenth-century manuscript copy of the poems used as the source text and explaining and justifying the editorial decisions made. Textual variants and instances of doubtful authorship are also discussed. THE TEXT itself is presented in the original spelling of the MS. and is a diplomatic edition: the scribe‘s use of characters that are now defunct (such as long ‗s‘ and ‗=‘ for ‗-‘) has not been modernised. A critical apparatus is provided with THE TEXT. THE TEXT is followed by an extensive COMMENTARY, which glosses un-usual or archaic words and phrases, points out allusions and their likely sources, discusses literary forms and conventions which inform the reading of the po-ems, and observes peculiarities in poetic metre. Translations and commentary are offered for Vaux‘s Latin poems. The five appendices following the COMMEN-TARY comprise a MODERNISED TEXT of the poems, a FACSIMILE OF THE FOLGER MS., a SUBSEQUENT HISTORY OF THE VAUX FAMILY after Henry Vaux‘s death, a text JOHN OF PECHAM‘S PHILOMENA PRAEVIA (a text which informs the reading of Vaux‘s ―A complaint to the Nightingale‖) along with a parallel translation by me, and transcriptions of TEXTUAL VARIANTS. A BIBLIOGRAPHY of works cited, re-ferred to or consulted follows the appendices. A comprehensive GENERAL INDEX of subjects, people, places, and literary works and forms follows this, and an IN-DEX OF FIRST LINES AND TITLES of Vaux‘s poems completes the edition.