Philip Schwyzer
Biographic Data
| ID | 1509780 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Philip Schwyzer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Philip |
| FAMILY NAME | Schwyzer |
| SIGNATURE | SCHWYZER P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Exeter |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2381-4424 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Curation of Iconoclasm, from the English Reformation to the Statue of Edward Colston
In recent years, and especially since the summer of 2020, the question of how to deal with fallen and decommissioned statues has emerged as a troubling conundrum in many countries. Where a monuments’ original commemorative or symbolic function has become intolerable, leading to its removal (sometimes by violent means), has its value in terms of heritage been entirely exhausted? Or should such objects be preserved and displayed in an adapted manne…
Interdisciplinary Explorations of Postmortem Interaction
This open access book discusses locally and historically specific in our ways of interacting with the remains of the dead, their objects, and monuments.
Interdisciplinary Explorations of Postmortem Interaction
Interdisciplinary Explorations of Postmortem Interaction
In the present as in the past, the dead have been deployed to promote visions of identity, as well as ostensibly wider human values. Through a series of case studies from ancient Egypt through prehistoric, historic, and present-day Europe, this book discusses what is constant and what is locally and historically specific in our ways of interacting with the remains of the dead, their objects, and monuments. Postmortem interaction encompasses not o…
Memory and the English Reformation
The dramatic religious revolutions of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries involved a battle over social memory. On one side, the Reformation repudiated key aspects of medieval commemorative culture; on the other, traditional religion claimed that Protestantism was a religion without memory. This volume shows how religious memory was sometimes attacked and extinguished, while at other times rehabilitated in a modified guise. It investigates ho…
Fallen idols, broken noses
The Henrician and Edwardian Reformations of the 1530s and 1540s were marked by successive waves of iconoclasm in English churches and cathedrals. Statues, screens, wall paintings, and windows were among the idols targeted. While some objects and artworks were destroyed or effaced entirely, others remained in situ, bearing the marks of iconoclastic violence. Even today, many English cathedrals harbour numerous examples of defaced images which have…
A Tomb Once Stood in This Room”
The century after the Reformation witnessed a profusion of artworks commemorating lost or failed monuments. In different ways, these memorials to memorials sought to register, if not necessarily to repair, a rupture in cultural memory. Early modern memorials to memorials could take the form of paintings, such as Pieter Saenredam’s St. Bavokerk with Fictive Bishop’s Tomb, or of poems recollecting vanished monuments, such as Shakespeare’s sonnets, …
The age of the Cambro-Britons
In the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, Welsh writers including the antiquary Humphrey Llwyd, the bard Gruffudd Hiraethog, and the epigrammatist John Owen began referring to themselves as Cambro-Britons. The term was quickly adopted and popularised by English writers, often in ways that show an imperfect grasp of the intentions behind the hyphenated phrase. Whereas the Welsh had hoped that the English and Scots would adopt similar …
Introduction
This introductory essay situates Poly-Olbion (1612, 1622), Michael Drayton’s vast chorographical and historical poem of England and Wales, in terms of its development as a poetic project, its structural choices, and its reception by early readers. It sets the tension in the text between the local and the national against the backdrop of a more fundamental seventeenth-century shift from national to regional description. By exploring the text’s dep…
The Drama of Memory in Shakespeare’s History Plays
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The Memory Arts in Renaissance England
The Memory Arts in Renaissance England: A Critical Anthology. William E. Engel, Rory Loughnane, and Grant Williams, eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. xviii + 378 pp. $28.99. - Volume 70 Issue 3
The Making of Englishmen
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Writing Wales, from the Renaissance to Romanticism
Stewart James Mottram. and Sarah Prescott., eds. Writing Wales, from the Renaissance to Romanticism. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2012. xiii + 232 pp. $99.95. ISBN: 978–1–4094–4509–8. - Volume 66 Issue 4
The Rose and the Globe—Playhouses of Shakespeare's Bankside, Southwark
The Rose and the Globe—Playhouses of Shakespeare's Bankside, Southwark: Excavations 1988–90. By Julian Bowsher and Pat Miller." Archaeological Journal, 168(1), pp. 441–442
Lees and Moonshine
Not long after Shakespeare's birth in 1564, the last witnesses to the reign of Richard III (1483–85) would have reached the end of their lives. Richard III (ca. 1592) occupies a distinctive historical moment in relation to its subject, the period after the extinction of living memory, but still within the horizon of secondhand or communicative memory. This essay explores how memories and postmemories of Richard's reign were preserved, transmitted…
Exhumation and Ethnic Conflict
This essay explores a range of medieval and early modern English texts, including the alliterative poem St. Erkenwald and Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene and View of the Present State of Ireland, inwhich the remains of subjugated peoples are exhumed and subsequently made to disappear. These texts, it is argued, participate in a tradition of colonial archaeology in which the cleansing of the earth is a step toward the creation of an English homelan…
The Beauties of the Land
Although often ignored in studies of nationalism, beauty is a central feature of every imagined nation. The conflicts surrounding the dissolution of the monasteries can be read as hinging on the question of what makes a nation beautiful. For the traditionalist rebel Robert Aske, "the beauties of this realm" were the abbeys themselves. For John Bale, by contrast, the books ransacked from monastic libraries were the true "beauty of our nation." Whe…
The bride on the border
From the medieval era to the present, the foreign bride has been stigmatized in the literatures of Europe as the bearer of ethnic contamination. While this practice has been consistent across time, the theories of ethnic reproduction that purport to justify it have not. This article argues that this stigmatizing practice does not derive from theoretical beliefs about ethnicity, but rather from paradoxes inherent in the concept of the ethnic bound…
The Scouring of the White Horse
Research Article| January 01 1999 The Scouring of the White Horse: Archaeology, Identity, and "Heritage" Philip Schwyzer Philip Schwyzer Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Representations (1999) 65: 42–62. https://doi.org/10.2307/2902961 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Ci…
Purity and Danger on the West Bank of the Severn
IN AUGUST OF THE YEAR 1652, John Taylor's tour of Wales brought him to Golden Grove in Carmarthenshire, the estate of the Earl of Carbery, where he was received with great hospitality. Dining that evening in the company of the Earl and his new bride, the Countess Alice, the Water Poet heard a visiting gentleman recount a strange tale of the flood that had recently swept through the border counties of Radnorshire and Glamorganshire
The Scouring of the White Horse
Research Article| January 01 1999 The Scouring of the White Horse: Archaeology, Identity, and "Heritage" Philip Schwyzer Philip Schwyzer Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Representations (1999) 65: 42–62. https://doi.org/10.2307/2902961 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Ci…
Exhumation and Ethnic Conflict
This essay explores a range of medieval and early modern English texts, including the alliterative poem St. Erkenwald and Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene and View of the Present State of Ireland, inwhich the remains of subjugated peoples are exhumed and subsequently made to disappear. These texts, it is argued, participate in a tradition of colonial archaeology in which the cleansing of the earth is a step toward the creation of an English homelan…
Fallen idols, broken noses
The Henrician and Edwardian Reformations of the 1530s and 1540s were marked by successive waves of iconoclasm in English churches and cathedrals. Statues, screens, wall paintings, and windows were among the idols targeted. While some objects and artworks were destroyed or effaced entirely, others remained in situ, bearing the marks of iconoclastic violence. Even today, many English cathedrals harbour numerous examples of defaced images which have…
Lees and Moonshine
Not long after Shakespeare's birth in 1564, the last witnesses to the reign of Richard III (1483–85) would have reached the end of their lives. Richard III (ca. 1592) occupies a distinctive historical moment in relation to its subject, the period after the extinction of living memory, but still within the horizon of secondhand or communicative memory. This essay explores how memories and postmemories of Richard's reign were preserved, transmitted…
Purity and Danger on the West Bank of the Severn
IN AUGUST OF THE YEAR 1652, John Taylor's tour of Wales brought him to Golden Grove in Carmarthenshire, the estate of the Earl of Carbery, where he was received with great hospitality. Dining that evening in the company of the Earl and his new bride, the Countess Alice, the Water Poet heard a visiting gentleman recount a strange tale of the flood that had recently swept through the border counties of Radnorshire and Glamorganshire
The Scouring of the White Horse
Research Article| January 01 1999 The Scouring of the White Horse: Archaeology, Identity, and "Heritage" Philip Schwyzer Philip Schwyzer Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Representations (1999) 65: 42–62. https://doi.org/10.2307/2902961 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Ci…
The bride on the border
From the medieval era to the present, the foreign bride has been stigmatized in the literatures of Europe as the bearer of ethnic contamination. While this practice has been consistent across time, the theories of ethnic reproduction that purport to justify it have not. This article argues that this stigmatizing practice does not derive from theoretical beliefs about ethnicity, but rather from paradoxes inherent in the concept of the ethnic bound…
The Beauties of the Land
Although often ignored in studies of nationalism, beauty is a central feature of every imagined nation. The conflicts surrounding the dissolution of the monasteries can be read as hinging on the question of what makes a nation beautiful. For the traditionalist rebel Robert Aske, "the beauties of this realm" were the abbeys themselves. For John Bale, by contrast, the books ransacked from monastic libraries were the true "beauty of our nation." Whe…
Exhumation and Ethnic Conflict
This essay explores a range of medieval and early modern English texts, including the alliterative poem St. Erkenwald and Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene and View of the Present State of Ireland, inwhich the remains of subjugated peoples are exhumed and subsequently made to disappear. These texts, it is argued, participate in a tradition of colonial archaeology in which the cleansing of the earth is a step toward the creation of an English homelan…
Lees and Moonshine
Not long after Shakespeare's birth in 1564, the last witnesses to the reign of Richard III (1483–85) would have reached the end of their lives. Richard III (ca. 1592) occupies a distinctive historical moment in relation to its subject, the period after the extinction of living memory, but still within the horizon of secondhand or communicative memory. This essay explores how memories and postmemories of Richard's reign were preserved, transmitted…
The Rose and the Globe—Playhouses of Shakespeare's Bankside, Southwark
The Rose and the Globe—Playhouses of Shakespeare's Bankside, Southwark: Excavations 1988–90. By Julian Bowsher and Pat Miller." Archaeological Journal, 168(1), pp. 441–442
Writing Wales, from the Renaissance to Romanticism
Stewart James Mottram. and Sarah Prescott., eds. Writing Wales, from the Renaissance to Romanticism. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2012. xiii + 232 pp. $99.95. ISBN: 978–1–4094–4509–8. - Volume 66 Issue 4
The Making of Englishmen
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Drama of Memory in Shakespeare’s History Plays
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Memory Arts in Renaissance England
The Memory Arts in Renaissance England: A Critical Anthology. William E. Engel, Rory Loughnane, and Grant Williams, eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. xviii + 378 pp. $28.99. - Volume 70 Issue 3
Fallen idols, broken noses
The Henrician and Edwardian Reformations of the 1530s and 1540s were marked by successive waves of iconoclasm in English churches and cathedrals. Statues, screens, wall paintings, and windows were among the idols targeted. While some objects and artworks were destroyed or effaced entirely, others remained in situ, bearing the marks of iconoclastic violence. Even today, many English cathedrals harbour numerous examples of defaced images which have…
A Tomb Once Stood in This Room”
The century after the Reformation witnessed a profusion of artworks commemorating lost or failed monuments. In different ways, these memorials to memorials sought to register, if not necessarily to repair, a rupture in cultural memory. Early modern memorials to memorials could take the form of paintings, such as Pieter Saenredam’s St. Bavokerk with Fictive Bishop’s Tomb, or of poems recollecting vanished monuments, such as Shakespeare’s sonnets, …
The age of the Cambro-Britons
In the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, Welsh writers including the antiquary Humphrey Llwyd, the bard Gruffudd Hiraethog, and the epigrammatist John Owen began referring to themselves as Cambro-Britons. The term was quickly adopted and popularised by English writers, often in ways that show an imperfect grasp of the intentions behind the hyphenated phrase. Whereas the Welsh had hoped that the English and Scots would adopt similar …
Introduction
This introductory essay situates Poly-Olbion (1612, 1622), Michael Drayton’s vast chorographical and historical poem of England and Wales, in terms of its development as a poetic project, its structural choices, and its reception by early readers. It sets the tension in the text between the local and the national against the backdrop of a more fundamental seventeenth-century shift from national to regional description. By exploring the text’s dep…
Memory and the English Reformation
The dramatic religious revolutions of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries involved a battle over social memory. On one side, the Reformation repudiated key aspects of medieval commemorative culture; on the other, traditional religion claimed that Protestantism was a religion without memory. This volume shows how religious memory was sometimes attacked and extinguished, while at other times rehabilitated in a modified guise. It investigates ho…
Interdisciplinary Explorations of Postmortem Interaction
This open access book discusses locally and historically specific in our ways of interacting with the remains of the dead, their objects, and monuments.
Interdisciplinary Explorations of Postmortem Interaction
Interdisciplinary Explorations of Postmortem Interaction
In the present as in the past, the dead have been deployed to promote visions of identity, as well as ostensibly wider human values. Through a series of case studies from ancient Egypt through prehistoric, historic, and present-day Europe, this book discusses what is constant and what is locally and historically specific in our ways of interacting with the remains of the dead, their objects, and monuments. Postmortem interaction encompasses not o…
The Curation of Iconoclasm, from the English Reformation to the Statue of Edward Colston
In recent years, and especially since the summer of 2020, the question of how to deal with fallen and decommissioned statues has emerged as a troubling conundrum in many countries. Where a monuments’ original commemorative or symbolic function has become intolerable, leading to its removal (sometimes by violent means), has its value in terms of heritage been entirely exhausted? Or should such objects be preserved and displayed in an adapted manne…
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