Robert Tittler
Biographic Data
| ID | 1043640 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Tittler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Tittler |
| SIGNATURE | TITTLER R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Concordia University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1932-3961 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 67 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 67 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Navigating the Reformation in Suffolk: The Painters’ Perspectives
Scholarship on the impact of the English Reformation on the visual culture of the era has ignored the role of the painters who helped produce it. Yet it was the painters with their brushes no less than the preachers with their sermons who articulated the doctrinal and social developments of the era. Taking the example of Suffolk, this study examines the implications of the Reformation era for the painters’ occupation – including arms painters, gl…
The Dissolution of the Monasteries in England and Wales
Houses and Society in Norwich, 1350–1660: Urban Buildings in an Age of Transition
The Histories of Alexander Neville (1544– 1614): A New Translation of Kett’s Rebellion and the City of Norwich
Paintings off the Peg: The Retail Sale of Paintings in Tudor and Early Stuart England
The scholarly consideration of the marketing of luxury goods like paintings in Renaissance Europe has rightly concentrated on the Italian and Netherlandish experiences, while the discussion of an English retail market for paintings has focused on a later era. This article investigates the retail sale of painting in Tudor and early Stuart times. It asks what sorts of paintings were sold, who sold them, and what sorts of spaces accommodated such sa…
Married to the City: The Early Modern Lord Major’s Show Between Emblematics and Ritual
Rural Society and the Painters’ Trade in Post-Reformation England
This article examines two opposing views on the role and presence of painters in post-Reformation rural England. The art historian William Gaunt concluded that painters simply ‘vanished’ from the local scene in their flight to London; the historical geographer John Patten saw non-agricultural workers in general flocking to the rural scene in the same era. Drawing on a database of over 2,600 working painters, the article explores the presence and …
The Flemish Merchant of Venice: Daniel Nijs and the Sale of the Gonzaga Art Collection
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Mark Brayshay. Land Travel and Communications in Tudor and Stuart England: Achieving a Joined-up Realm
Mark Brayshay, professor of historical geography at the University of Plymouth, has written a lengthy, deeply researched, and most welcome study of land travel in early modern England, particularly privileging the sixteenth and early seventeenth century, before turning, in the last two chapters, to the post-1635 era and ending at ca. 1700. Overall, and with copious documentation especially from archival sources, Brayshay describes (sometimes in g…
The Reformation of the English Parish Church
Heralds and Heraldry in Shakespeare’s England
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The ‘Gloucester Benefactors’ After Four Centuries
Some time in the early years of the seventeenth century, the city fathers of Gloucester evidently commissioned twelve paintings of past benefactors to that city. The paintings survive in the Gloucester Folk Museum and were exhibited in the spring of 2014 to mark the approximate date of their four-hundredth anniversary. Given the absence of critically important sources that would have given precise information on their commissioning, their origin …
The Elizabethan New Year’s Gift Exchanges, 1559–1603
Jane A. Lawson, ed. The Elizabethan New Year’s Gift Exchanges, 1559–1603. Records of Social and Economic History, New Series 51. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. xii + 740 pp. + 4 b/w pls. $275. ISBN: 978-0-19-726526-0. - Volume 67 Issue 4
Early Stuart Chester as a centre for regional portraiture
Scholarship on provincial towns and cities has thus far overlooked their role as centres of painting in the early modern era, leaving the false impression that painting, and art itself, remained the preserve of London. Chester proves a vibrant centre for such activities in the era 1590–1640. This article shows how and why the distinctive characteristics of Chester and its wider hinterland encouraged and shaped its production of portraiture. It al…
Visions of the Courtly Body: The Patronage of George Villiers, First Duke of Buckingham, and the Triumph of Painting at the Stuart Court
Christiane Hille. Visions of the Courtly Body: The Patronage of George Villiers, First Duke of Buckingham, and the Triumph of Painting at the Stuart Court. Munich: Akademie Verlag, 2012. ix + 302 pp. €49.80. ISBN: 978–3–05–005908–2. - Volume 66 Issue 2
And No Loose People to Trouble the Hall’: Oligarchy and the Division of Space in the English Civic Hall to 1640
Michael McKeon’s chapter on the subdivision of interior, residential spaces shows how concerns for privacy in domestic life played themselves out in the functional division of interior space amongst all ranks of people. This essay suggests that much of the same process might be observed in the civic realm as well as the domestic, and in civic as well as residential spaces. At least to c. 1640, the spatial division and functional specificity of En…
The Anglo-Florentine Renaissance: Art for the Early Tudors
Cinzia Maria Sicca and Louis A. Waldman, eds. The Anglo-Florentine Renaissance: Art for the Early Tudors. Studies in British Art 22. New Haven: Yale Center for British Art and The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2012. x + 414 pp. $75. ISBN: 978–0–300–17608–7. - Volume 65 Issue 4
Flemish and Dutch Artists in Early Modern England: Collaboration and Competition, 1460-1680
Elizabethan Architecture: Its Rise and Fall, 1540—1640
Monuments and Memory in Early Modern England
When Fathers Ruled: Family Life in Reformation Europe
Ozment approaches the "hot topic" of family history from the viewpoint, not of the fashionable statisticians, but ofthe more traditional historian ofideas and high culture: "cross-roads," in the author's own words, "of values and structures" (p.vii.).The chief theme in this candidly polemical work challenges the modern tradi- tion, derived from Philipe Aries, David Hunt, Lawrence Stone and others, that Protestantism brought greater authoritariani…
Elizabeth I, the Shrewdness of Virtue; Elizabeth I
Trade, Plunder and Settlement: Maritime Enterprise and the Genesis of the British Empire, 1480-1630
Since he began research on Elizabeth privateering some thirty years ago, K.R. Andrews has been in the forefront of the small but industrious group of English maritime historians of the Early Modem period.Rejecting the Anglocentric and methodologically narrow efforts of earlier generations, including Oppenheim, Corbett, Newton
Portrait collection and display in the English civic body, c.1540-1640
In the burgeoning scholarly literature on the history of collecting and display of art in England, very little attention has been paid to painting collections made by institutions rather than individuals. A survey of the acquisition, collection and display of paintings, especially portraits, in post-Reformation England shows that civic bodies such as towns and boroughs, livery companies, schools and university colleges also indulged in such activ…
Portraiture, precedence and politics amongst the London liveries c . 1540–1640
Portraiture has accurately been identified as one of the many harmony-inducing, commemorative devices employed in the celebratory culture of the London liveries in the century after the Reformation. But a closer examination of the developing tradition of livery company portraiture shows its use to be considerably more complex, and sometimes more divisive, than previously recognized
Trade, Plunder and Settlement: Maritime Enterprise and the Genesis of the British Empire, 1480-1630
Since he began research on Elizabeth privateering some thirty years ago, K.R. Andrews has been in the forefront of the small but industrious group of English maritime historians of the Early Modem period.Rejecting the Anglocentric and methodologically narrow efforts of earlier generations, including Oppenheim, Corbett, Newton
The Incorporation of Boroughs, 1540–1558
Reformation, civic culture and collective memory in English provincial towns
This essay explores the concept of collective memory as a component of political culture in pre- and especially post-Reformation provincial towns. Pre-Reformation political culture depended heavily on a collective memory shaped by traditional religious experience and institutions. When so many of these were destroyed by the Reformation, it became necessary for the ruling elites of provincial towns to create alternative cultural forms, and thus to…
The Local Community and the Crown in 1553: The Accession of Mary Tudor Revisited
Robert Tittler, Susan L. Battley; The Local Community and the Crown in 1553: the Accession of Mary Tudor Revisited, Historical Research, Volume 57, Issue 1
Paintings off the Peg: The Retail Sale of Paintings in Tudor and Early Stuart England
The scholarly consideration of the marketing of luxury goods like paintings in Renaissance Europe has rightly concentrated on the Italian and Netherlandish experiences, while the discussion of an English retail market for paintings has focused on a later era. This article investigates the retail sale of painting in Tudor and early Stuart times. It asks what sorts of paintings were sold, who sold them, and what sorts of spaces accommodated such sa…
Early Stuart Chester as a centre for regional portraiture
Scholarship on provincial towns and cities has thus far overlooked their role as centres of painting in the early modern era, leaving the false impression that painting, and art itself, remained the preserve of London. Chester proves a vibrant centre for such activities in the era 1590–1640. This article shows how and why the distinctive characteristics of Chester and its wider hinterland encouraged and shaped its production of portraiture. It al…
Portraiture, precedence and politics amongst the London liveries c . 1540–1640
Portraiture has accurately been identified as one of the many harmony-inducing, commemorative devices employed in the celebratory culture of the London liveries in the century after the Reformation. But a closer examination of the developing tradition of livery company portraiture shows its use to be considerably more complex, and sometimes more divisive, than previously recognized
Henry Hardware's Moment and the Puritan Attack on Drama
Henry Hardware has become familiar to many theatre historians as the mayor who destroyed the traditional processional figures in the Midsummer Show in Chester, and thus as an exemplar of anit-theatrical activity amongst the Puritan magistracy of the time. A closer look at both Hardware and the condition of Chester itself suggests some of the complexities behind such activity
Money-Lending in the West Midlands: The Activities of Joyce Jefferies, 1638-49
Journal Article Money-Lending in the West Midlands: the Activities of Joyce Jefferies, 1638–49 Get access Robert Tittler Robert Tittler Concordia University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Historical Research, Volume 67, Issue 164, October 1994, Pages 249–263, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2281.1994.tb01831.x Published: 12 October 2007
Elizabethan Towns and the ‘Points of Contact’: Parliament
Humanism in the Age of Henry VIII
The Cambridge Connection and the Elizabethan Settlement of 1559
ated as the reason for a piece's wide distribution.The composition could be just as well a testimony to the education and career of the owner or social status of the patron.Four book reviews form an appendix to this attractive hard bound volume.Care has been taken both with the typography and the presentation of the musical examples, and the numerous facsimiles and photographs are clear and distinctly labelled.One can also imagine that the arrang…
Henry VIII and the English Nobility
In the last half dozen years or so the nobility of Tudor and early Stuart England has made a strong comeback in published scholarship.In the genre of political history alone, studies of several specific peers and of the House of Lords in both the mid-Tudor and the early Stuart periods have greatly enhanced our understanding of this group.Now Helen Miller has given us the first full length investigation of the relations between the nobility and th…
Reassessing the Henrician Age: Humanism, Politics and Reform, 1500-1550
Two Tudor historians here provide some of the first evidence of the reassessment of this period, a reassessment started by G.R. Elton some 30 years ago. They consider Thomas Cromwell's role in the Reformation; changes in the theory and practice of justice; the functions of the King's Council; the problematic nature of contemporary interpretation of scripture as authority for action; and the intellectual origins and influence of English Humanism
Sir Nicholas Bacon and the Reform of the Tudor Chancery
The Court of Orphans
County and Court: Government and Politics in Norfolk, 1558-1603 , by A. Hassell Smith
Thine is the Kingdom: The Trial for Treason of Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, First Minister to King Charles I, and Last Hope of the English Crown , by John Timmis III
"Thine is the Kingdom: The Trial for Treason of Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, First Minister to King Charles I, and Last Hope of the English Crown, by John Timmis III." Canadian Journal of History, 11(2), pp. 227–228
The Incorporation of Boroughs, 1540–1558
Nicholas Bacon: The Making of a Tudor Statesman
Bury St. Edmunds and the Urban Crisis: 1290-1539 By Robert S. Gottfried
"Bury St. Edmunds and the Urban Crisis: 1290-1539 by Robert S. Gottfried." Canadian Journal of History, 17(3), pp. 522–523
The Local Community and the Crown in 1553: The Accession of Mary Tudor Revisited
Robert Tittler, Susan L. Battley; The Local Community and the Crown in 1553: the Accession of Mary Tudor Revisited, Historical Research, Volume 57, Issue 1
Late Medieval Urban Prosperity
In a recent contribution to the Review, A. R. Bridbury has rejected contemporary claims of urban decay in the later Middle Ages, and has advanced in their place examples of substantial civic expenditure as indicative of urban prosperity in the same era.1 Two categories of this expenditure, the acquisition of charters of incorporation and the construction or reconstruction of town halls, seem particularly open to question insofar as they pertain t…
Death, Burial and the Individual in Early Modern England
This book traces how and why the modern reaction of death as the great taboo has come about by examining English attitudes to death since the Middle Ages. This book should be of interest to general readers and historians
The Building of Civic Halls in Dorset, c. 1560–1640
Journal Article The Building of Civic Halls in Dorset, c. 1560–1640 Get access Robert Tittler Robert Tittler Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research, Volume 58, Issue 137, May 1985, Pages 37–45, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2281.1985.tb01977.x Published: 12 October 2007
The End of the Middle Ages in the English Country Town
The Sequestration of Juries in Early Modern England
Journal Article The Sequestration of Juries in Early Modern England Get access Robert Tittler Robert Tittler Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Historical Research, Volume 61, Issue 146, October 1988, Pages 301–305, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2281.1988.tb01068.x Published: 12 October 2007
The Reformation of Cathedrals, Cathedrals in English Society, 1485-1603
Elizabethan Towns and the ‘Points of Contact’: Parliament
Worlds within Worlds: Structures of Life in Sixteenth Century London , by Steve Rappaport
The Paris of Henri IV, Architecture and Urbanism
The agrarian history of England and Wales, vol. III, 1348–1500
Architecture and Power: The Town Hall and the English Urban Community, 1500-1640
Architecture and Power: The Town Hall and the English Urban Community c. 1500-1640
Money-Lending in the West Midlands: The Activities of Joyce Jefferies, 1638-49
Journal Article Money-Lending in the West Midlands: the Activities of Joyce Jefferies, 1638–49 Get access Robert Tittler Robert Tittler Concordia University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Historical Research, Volume 67, Issue 164, October 1994, Pages 249–263, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2281.1994.tb01831.x Published: 12 October 2007
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