Apresenta e discute acervo iconográfico com foco no espaço urbano do Recife colonial e reflete se a análise dessa iconografia é suficiente para compreensão de mudanças na identidade urbana ligada a determinado empreendedor ou fase de governo colonial, do lusoibérico ao pós-neerlandês. Mostra através da iconografia, sistema de representação gráfica materializadora de informações e discursos, ser possível a invenção se contrapondo à verdade observada e a outras iconografias. Reflete suficiência da análise iconográfica para compreender mudanças na identidade urbana nas fases de governo luso-ibérico, neerlandêsholandês e pós-neerlandês, de acordo com as necessidades das etapas do empreendimento colonial. Numa inquietação científica, a tese impôs resultado divergente da hipótese inicial, entendendo que para a discussão aprofundada da distinção das identidades nos fatos urbanos e modelos urbanísticos, arquitetônicos e de investimentos, nos períodos de governo, de forma não subjetiva e sem juízos de valor, a leitura e entendimento através da iconografia só se mostrou suficiente a partir de base historiográfica. Esse aprofundamento permitiu questionar convenções sobre a construção da identidade urbana, permitindo superar a metodologia de análise identitária tradicional, passando a utilizar variáveis reais documentadas pela historiografia, respondendo cientificamente à construção do fenômeno urbano. A partir disso, discute a convencionada e subjetiva transplantação identitária, defendendo ocorrência de construção da cidade e sua identidade a partir das variáveis da cidade necessária [ambiente, interesses e, investimento de meio e materiais], passando a perceber as formas distintas de investir e as distintas identidades urbanas resultantes, até dentro de uma mesma fase de governo do empreendimento colonial, por exemplo, diferenciando neerlandeses de holandeses [Nassau] da WIC. Constatou que a cidade foi construída com pragmatismo, na emergência da falta de recursos públicos, das guerras, da falta de logística de meios e materiais, nem condições políticas para intervenção impositiva. Elementos culturais, desenhos e forma de implantação de edifícios e sistema urbano puderam ser transplantados e miscigenados na babel colonial, frente às necessidades e emergências, mas a identidade urbana empreendida foi consolidada no ambiente construído, não como discurso, ou imposição, mas através do saber fazer dos personagens coloniais. / This work shows and discuss the iconography heap focalizing the urban space of colonial Recife and reflects if their iconography analysis is enough for the changes understanding in urban identity connected to a specific contractor or colonial government phase, to Lusitian- Iberian from after-Netherlandish. It is showed, by iconography, system of materializing graphical representation of informations and discuss, that is possible the invention be opposed of examined true and another iconographies. This work reflects the sufficiency of iconography analyses to understand the urban identity changes in the Lusitian-Iberian, Netherlandish-Dutch governments and post-Netherlandish, according the level necessities of colonial enterprise. In a scientific inquietude, this thesis imposes a different result of initial hypothesis, understanding that for a deepened discussion of identities in urban facts and urbanistic, architectonic and investment models, in government periods, of a no subjective form and without value judgment, the lecture and understanding by the iconography just showed sufficient by an historiographical basis. This deepening allows to question conventions about the urban identity construction, allowing overcame the methodology oftraditional identity analyses, passing to utilize real variables documented by historiography, answering scientifically to construction of urban phenomenon. From this, it was discussed the covenanted and subjective identity transplantation, defending the occurrence of urban construction and their identity from the necessary city variables (environment, interests and material and mean investments), passing to perceive the different forms to invest and the different urban identities resultant, until into of a same phase of colonial enterprise, for example, differencing netherlandishes from ditches (Nassau) from WIC. It was observed that city was constructed with pragmatism, in emergency of public resources missed, from wars, from logistics missing of means and materials, neither political conditions to an imposing intervention. Cultural elements, draws and form of buildings implantation and urban system could be transplanted and miscegenated in colonial Babel, front of necessities and emergencies, but the undertaked urban identity was consolidated in a constructed environment, not as discuss, or imposition, but by the knowhow from colonial characters.

This dissertation examines the literature of royal consorts in Stuart England. Critics and historians have devoted considerable attention to the creation of the monarch’s image during this tumultuous period, which witnessed two revolutions and the explosion of print. We know that the Stuart monarchs embraced different forms of visual media – including pageantry, portraiture and print – to disseminate their image within the court and to a broader public. However, the extensive literature about the royal consorts remains under-examined. My thesis makes an original contribution to scholarship by exploring what texts were written about the royal consorts, by whom, and how these writers constructed images of the royal consorts that participated in broader debates over the status of the monarchy. The dissertation is divided into two main parts. Part 1 comprises six chapters that analyse succession writing, when a new monarch came to the throne and established their iconography for the new reign. I draw on hundreds of texts that were printed about the Stuart consorts at these moments. These writings span a variety of genres, from poems and plays to sermons and political pamphlets. I investigate the literature of each succession in turn, analysing the main themes and motifs that emerged. This approach enables me to uncover a swathe of anonymous and under-utilised literature, but also re-interpret works by more canonical writers such as Aphra Behn. I ask how the royal consorts themselves, their spouses and members of the public could influence the creation of the royal consorts’ images at these moments. Critically, I also compare the conventions that were used to describe the consorts across the century. Part 2 analyses how writers re-constructed ideals for the royal consorts in Restoration England, as debates about the structure of the monarchy came to be more explicit. Chapter 7 concentrates on images of Henrietta Maria when she returned to England as Queen Mother. Chapter 8 asks how writers adapted former models of representation to praise Catherine, the infertile queen, when it became clear that she would not bear an heir. Finally, Chapter 9 examines the numerous secret histories and romances that were authored about Mary Beatrice’s purported behaviour during her exile in the 1690s. These chapters highlight the continued importance of these women and examines how writers constructed their legacies. As a whole, the literature about the royal consorts reveals a dynamic project as part of which authors engaged with and adapted earlier models of writing. This enabled them to address broader questions about changes in the nature of the Stuart monarchy and political life.

This thesis deploys both qualitative and quantitative methods to explore the role and meanings of violence within the context of Sussex and Kent in the early part of the eighteenth century. Historians have often approached the topic of violence from the perspective of a history of crime and therefore deviance. The focus has frequently been on measurements of levels and has ignored cultural contexts. In contrast, this research is grounded in experiences of violence demonstrating that it is not a uniform concept and includes a wide variety of behaviours from brawls to murder. By drawing on a range of sources it has been possible to allow the ritual and meaning of violent actions to be explored in detailed context. Quantitative data is taken from the quarter sessions records of both counties and analysed alongside the interpretations of previous historians. This is supplemented with depositions, literature, letters and notebooks to provide a ‘thick description’ of the contexts and circumstances of violence. The experience of violence is explored from a range of angles and at several levels, from anonymous brawls in the street to gang violence to household chastisement, the ritual and meaning of violent actions is investigated in detail. This analysis demonstrates that violence was a subjective concept, dependent on context. No clear definition of violence can be found, instead there are a range of descriptions, portrayals and accounts which all combine to illustrate the plurality of this concept. This thesis concludes that violence was often meaningful and connected with cultural concepts of order, authority and community. It was not random and its purpose can often be found if the signs are read. Evidence for struggles over authority and power can frequently be found as the basis of violent disputes and this can be found at the household, community and county level. This thesis demonstrates how violence was regulated through both formal and informal methods involving concepts of legitimacy and acceptability, as although violence was defined legally the border between legitimate or acceptable and illegitimate and unacceptable was blurred and contested.

Early modern Poland-Lithuania figured significantly in the political perceptions of Europeans in the long seventeenth century – not only due to its considerable size and enormous commercial and military resources, but also, and just as importantly, due to its exceptional religious and political situation. This interest in Poland-Lithuania was shared by many Britons. However, a detailed examination of how Britons perceived Poland-Lithuania at that time and how they treated Poland-Lithuania in their political debates has never been undertaken. This thesis utilises a wide range of the previously neglected source material and considers the patterns of transmission of information to determine Britons' awareness of Poland-Lithuania and their employment of the Polish-Lithuanian example in the British political discourse during the seventeenth century. It looks at a variety of geographical and historical information, English and Latin descriptions of Poland-Lithuania's physical topography and boundaries, and its ethnic and cultural make-up presented in histories, atlases and maps, to establish what, where and who Poland-Lithuania was for Britons. Poland-Lithuania's political framework, with its composite structure and unique relationship between the crown and nobility, elicited a spectrum of reactions, and so this thesis evaluates the role that both criticism and praise of Poland-Lithuania played in British constitutional debates. Consequently, the study argues that Britons' perceptions of Poland-Lithuania were characterised by great plasticity. It claims that Britons' impressions of the country were shaped by multiple – real or imagined - borders, whether cultural, economic or political, but also that Britons were affected by the exposure to a uniform, idealised historiography of this country. Crucially, the thesis asserts that references to Poland-Lithuania constituted an ingenious ideological and polemical device that was eagerly used throughout the period by Britons of diverse political sympathies. Moreover, through the examination of the kingdom's geopolitical role, particularly its fluctuating position as a “bulwark of Christendom”, side by side its engagement against Protestants, the thesis challenges the assumption that anti-Catholicism dominated seventeenth-century British perceptions of the world.

Arthur Ingram and Lionel Cranfield were part of the early modern phenomenon of social mobility, rising from humble merchants to titled gentlemen in one generation. Cranfield, especially, reached significant heights in a matter of years. Despite the fact both men have merited biographies which chart their commercial and political careers, little attention has been paid to their lives outside of the political sphere leaving room for an analysis of their family and personal estates and the extent to which they utilised their houses in their self-projection. The originality of this thesis lies in its comparison of the two men which not only highlights their dependency on each other and mutual advertisement of each other’s image, but also opens up the question of regional disparity in house building as Ingram’s country estates were situated in Yorkshire whereas Cranfield’s were mainly close to London. The first chapter introduces the issues of social mobility, self-fashioning, and regionality, provides a literature review and explains the methodology employed. Chapter 2 looks at the careers and families of Ingram and Cranfield before examining the ways in which they furthered their ascent through the fashioning of their attire, education and learning, and social networks. The thesis then focuses on the houses of both men, with Chapters 3 and 4 considering how they built and styled their houses. Chapter 5 examines the craftsmen and materials employed by Ingram and Cranfield on their building programmes and in particular the geographical location of their houses. Chapter 6 discusses the way Ingram and Cranfield furnished their residences and how their households were related to the local community, particularly in terms of hospitality. The gardens and grounds that surrounded their houses are the subject of Chapter 7. The thesis concludes with an evaluation of the significance of Ingram’s and Cranfield’s houses in the self-projection of their image and how far the geographical location of their residences affected how successful this was.

Why write music theory and publish it? In the thesis I investigate the reasons for a seeming over-abundance of practically oriented music treatises in early seventeenth-century Italy. Throughout I challenge our conventional assessment of the study of music theory: I suggest that we can define a music-theoretical text in terms of its material form in addition to its content. Adriano Banchieri (1568-1634) was the most prolific theorist in early seventeenth-century Italy. His music-theory books exemplify contemporary printing patterns, an overt practical focus, and a synthesis of contemporary theoretical innovations. In Chapter 1, after considering the meaning of 'music theory' and how it is typically classified, I discuss the process of and purposes for writing and publishing music theory. In Chapter 2 I explore Banchieri's practical and philosophical motives for writing music theory, and thus introduce the reader to his music-theoretical corpus. The focus of the thesis then broadens: in Chapter 3 I survey the typical authors, publishing houses, content, material form, function and readers of the various kinds of theoretical texts printed in Italy between 1600 and 1630. In Chapter 4 I examine the widespread practice of publishing second and revised editions of music-theory books in order to establish the extent to which a new edition corresponds to a seeming demand for a particular text. The case study of the paratext of Banchieri's Conclusiones de musica (Bologna, 1627) in Chapter 5 demonstrates the great extent to which the preliminary matter of an early Seicento music-theory book is embedded in its socio-cultural context and how a paratext projects ideas contained in the text proper. Lastly, in Chapter 6 I explore to whom and in which particular forums theoretical writings circulated. Here I focus principally on Banchieri's printed letters, which provide evidence of how an author circulated his music books.

Les études littéraires du théâtre ont tendance à considérer la pièce comme si elle constituait à elle seule la totalité de la représentation. Or les pièces de théâtre du XVIIe siècle étaient presque toujours « encadrées » par divers ornements parathéâtraux : prologues, épilogues, chœurs et intermèdes. La représentation était constituée de la pièce, encadrée par ces ornements. Le dessein de cette thèse est double. Nous étudierons, dans un premier temps, la façon dont chaque forme d’encadrement était intégrée à la représentation et quelle fonction pratique les professionnels du spectacle de l’époque lui attribuaient. Nous analyserons, dans un deuxième temps, la façon dont les encadrements influencent l’interprétation de la pièce principale. L’objectif de cette étude est d’illustrer l’utilité herméneutique des encadrements et de démontrer qu’ils sont de véritables clés d’interprétation de l’œuvre, laissées par les auteurs et acteurs du Grand Siècle, qui nous permettent d’appréhender le sens de la pièce tel qu’il était conçu au XVIIe siècle. / Literary studies of theatre have tended to focus on the play itself as though it were the only element of the representation. In reality, however, seventeenth century plays were almost always “framed” by various paratheatrical ornaments such as prologues, epilogues, choruses and intermèdes. Together the play and its complementary encadrements formed a dramatic whole. The purpose of this thesis is twofold. We will first undertake a practical study of each paratheatrical form in order to determine exactly how it was integrated into the performance and what its practical function was perceived to be. We will then analyse the way in which encadrements influence the interpretation of the play. The primary interest of this study is to illustrate the way in which paratheatre is used to direct the spectator’s interpretation. We hope to demonstrate the interest of these “frames” as guides left by the authors and actors of the Grand Siècle, helping us to better understand the meaning of dramatic works as they were perceived in their own time.

Grâce aux travaux récents des historiens et des spécialistes de la littérature galante, la promotion théorisée et valorisée de la tendresse est bien connue. En revanche, rares sont les études de cas attentives à ses formes d’expression. Au moment où Mme de Sévigné écrit ses lettres, la tendresse est conçue comme une modulation du lien interpersonnel spécifique, dont les enjeux sont à relier d’une part, à la méfiance envers les passions, et d’autre part, aux raffinements affectifs et sentimentaux de l’esthétique galante.Le terme d’écriture le laisse entrevoir : il ne s’agit pas de traquer d’hypothétiques sentiments intimes, mais bien plutôt d’analyser, au plus près du texte, leurs mises en scène et leurs modalités d’inscription. Loin de donner accès en toute transparence à la vie intérieure de l’épistolière, l’expression des sentiments maternels est informée par des stratégies rhétoriques sous-tendues aussi bien par des contraintes génériques que par des hiérarchies axiologiques. Il convient donc de raisonner en termes de possibles langagiers – indissociables de l’appropriation, pragmatiquement orientée, de modèles culturels.Éclairer une manière de dire par les codes et les valeurs qu’elle cristallise, afin de restituer aux modulations stylistiques du sentiment maternel leur pleine portée, dans le cadre de ses possibilités d’expression et de ses marges d’innovation : tel est l’objectif de ce travail. / This thesis analyses the stylistic means by which Mme de Sévigné appropriates the ideal of tenderness and builds an ethical category suited to the particularities of the relationship with her daughter. It emphasizes therefore how historical and ideological circumstances must be taken into account to understand Mme de Sévigné’ s epistolary style in a specific cultural context.

In the seventeenth century, news of the Transylvanian princes in weekly newspapers and biannual Messrelationen rarely comes from the principality itself, but from the cities which are the Transylvanians' allies, enemies and invaded neighbors. This thesis examines the German language periodicals of four periods: István Bocskai's rebellion against the Habsburg Emperor (1604-5), Gábor Bethlen's first march into Hungary (1619-21), György I Rákóczi's Hungarian offensive (1643-5) and György II Rákóczi's incursion into Poland-Lithuania and the subsequent Ottoman invasion of Transylvania (1657-8). Between these periods, political developments and postal improvements shift the reporting networks which carry the news of Transylvania. As a result, each prince is reported on by a different set of reporting regions altering the language of the news. Bocskai's rebellion is presented in the Messrelationen as an alliance of the unchristian Protestants and Ottomans, dependent on military success rather than political legitimacy and causing devastation in the region. This perspective continues in later periods in news from Vienna, the most consistent reporter on Transylvania, as the princes are shown to be capable of upsetting the Emperor's position in Hungary, but more feared for their association with the Ottomans. Bethlen's march is also reported on by Transylvania's allies in Prague, who present the prince with greater diplomatic importance, and supporters in Hungary, who detail the diet meetings where he is elected king, proving his legitimacy. György I's march does not benefit from a breadth of perspectives, and Vienna’s dominates the news with its concern for quick peace. György II’s invasion of Poland is largely reported from the new news centers along the Baltic, presenting him as a military commander with precedent for his claim to the Polish throne. With the Ottomans' invasion the following year, Vienna’s fears for the safety of Christendom once again dictate Transylvania’s portrayal in the news.

The purpose of this thesis is to bring to light some of the music written for, or especially adaptable to, brass ensembles before the close of the eighteenth century. This study must concern itself with the music which has been preserved and is available, and with such music as can be played on modern instruments. It must be stated that some of the music mentioned herein was not written specifically for brass instruments, but the style and general character of the music make it adaptable for a brass instrumentation.