James Daybell
Biographic Data
| ID | 2101351 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James Daybell |
| GIVEN NAMES | James |
| FAMILY NAME | Daybell |
| SIGNATURE | DAYBELL J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Plymouth |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3453-6191 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Gender and Materiality in Early Modern English Gloves
This article explores the complex interactions of gender with the materiality of the processes of becoming and being a glove in the early modern period. Through an investigation of gloves, glove parts, and their ephemeral presentation (through leather, embroidery, and perfume), we argue that gender and materiality act in dialogic ways to produce power relations, and that considerations of gender, power, and materiality are central to our understa…
Gendering Objects at the V&A and Vasa Museums
This article presents two case studies, which are the result of the application of a gendered interpretative tool to the collections at the Victoria & Albert Museum (London) and the Vasa Museum (Stockholm). Objects and their gendered narratives within the museums’ collections were researched across their lifecycle, from commission and manufacture to consumption and display in a museum setting. This research was developed in close co-operation bet…
The Future of Early Modern Studies: Embracing the Impact and Public Engagement Agenda
Gender and Political Culture in Early Modern Europe, 1400─1800
Gender and Political Culture in Early Modern Europe investigates the gendered nature of political culture across early modern Europe by exploring the relationship between gender, power, and political authority and influence. This collection offers a rethinking of what constituted ‘politics’ and a reconsideration of how men and women operated as part of political culture. It demonstrates how underlying structures could enable or constrain politica…
Gender and Political Culture in Early Modern Europe, 1400-1800
Cultures of Correspondence in Early Modern Britain
Women and Epistolary Agency in Early Modern Culture, 1450–1690
Formal Matters: Reading the Materials of English Renaissance Literature
Formal Matters: Reading the Materials of English Renaissance Literature. Allison K. Deutermann and András Kiséry, eds. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2013. xii + 258 pp. $105. - Volume 69 Issue 4
Social Negotiations in Correspondence between Mothers and Daughters in Tudor and Early Stuart England
This article examines correspondence between mothers and daughters in sixteenth- and early-seventeenth-century England, as a way of investigating the distinct nature of mother–daughter relationships during this period, and of studying the ways in which such relationships were negotiated through the epistolary medium. Based on approximately 100 letters extant for the period 1530 to 1620, it applies recent innovations in the field of Renaissance le…
The Material Letter in Early Modern England
The first major socio-cultural study of manuscript letters and letter-writing practices in early modern England. Daybell examines a crucial period in the development of the English vernacular letter b
The Afterlives of Letters
Early modern letters once composed and dispatched had a peculiar afterlife that is textual, historic and archival. Letters were preserved and archived by contemporaries in a range of ways. They were locked in muniments rooms, endorsed usually with the date and a brief note of contents then folded and placed in bundles; they were kept in studies or closets, referenced for ease of retrieval as part of complex filing systems; they were also hidden u…
Women and Writing, c.1340-c.1650: The Domestication of Print Culture
Essays offering a gendered approach to the study of the move from manuscript to early printed book show how much women were involved in the process. The transition from medieval manuscript to early printed book is currently a major topic of academic interest, but has received very little attention in terms of women's involvement, a gap which the essays in this volume address.They add female names to the list of authors who participated in the cre…
Women and Writing, C. 1340-C. 1650: The Domestication of Print Culture
Gender, Obedience, and Authority in Sixteenth-Century Women's Letters
This article examines obedience and authority through the lens of sixteenth-century women's correspondence as a way of unlocking the gendered nature of deferential behavioral codes and social attitudes in early modern England. Above all, it is interested in looking at women's status and place within the household, the ways in which familial relationships (and indeed the writing of letters) could encourage the formation of habits of submissiveness…
Writing Lives: Biography and Textuality, Identity and Representation in Early Modern England
This latest edited volume from the partnership of Sharpe and Zwicker brings to bear on the subject of early modern biographical writing the insights and methodologies of recent critical and theoretical approaches which have breathed new life into the histories of the book and reading. These trends are exhaustively elucidated in the impressively expansive introductory essay, which situates early modern life-writing in a trajectory traced from clas…
Material Meanings and the Social Signs of Manuscript Letters in Early Modern England
This article investigates the physical features and characteristics of early modern manuscript letters – paper, ink, handwriting, physical layout, signatures, seals and fastenings, and addresses and endorsements – paying attention to the significant meanings generated by such material forms. It is thus concerned more with the kinds of analysis traditionally associated with codicology, palaeography, sigillography and diplomatics, than with what mi…
Women's letters, literature and conscience in sixteenth‐century England
Early modern letters have long been utilized for the light they shed on the religious consciences of women. In his seminal work, Patrick Collinson outlined the ‘confessional’ nature of women's correspondence with reformation preachers such as John Knox, Edward Dering, Thomas Cartwright and Thomas Wilcox. Traditional studies have approached letters as historical documents, reliable depositories of facts there to be picked clean by the assiduous sc…
Interpreting letters and reading script: Evidence for female education and literacy in Tudor England
Early Modern Women’s Letter Writing, 1450–1700
This landmark book of essays examines the development of women's letter writing from the late fifteenth to the early eighteen century. It is the first book to deal comprehensively with women's letter
Material Meanings and the Social Signs of Manuscript Letters in Early Modern England
This article investigates the physical features and characteristics of early modern manuscript letters – paper, ink, handwriting, physical layout, signatures, seals and fastenings, and addresses and endorsements – paying attention to the significant meanings generated by such material forms. It is thus concerned more with the kinds of analysis traditionally associated with codicology, palaeography, sigillography and diplomatics, than with what mi…
Social Negotiations in Correspondence between Mothers and Daughters in Tudor and Early Stuart England
This article examines correspondence between mothers and daughters in sixteenth- and early-seventeenth-century England, as a way of investigating the distinct nature of mother–daughter relationships during this period, and of studying the ways in which such relationships were negotiated through the epistolary medium. Based on approximately 100 letters extant for the period 1530 to 1620, it applies recent innovations in the field of Renaissance le…
Early Modern Women’s Letter Writing, 1450–1700
This landmark book of essays examines the development of women's letter writing from the late fifteenth to the early eighteen century. It is the first book to deal comprehensively with women's letter
Interpreting letters and reading script: Evidence for female education and literacy in Tudor England
Material Meanings and the Social Signs of Manuscript Letters in Early Modern England
This article investigates the physical features and characteristics of early modern manuscript letters – paper, ink, handwriting, physical layout, signatures, seals and fastenings, and addresses and endorsements – paying attention to the significant meanings generated by such material forms. It is thus concerned more with the kinds of analysis traditionally associated with codicology, palaeography, sigillography and diplomatics, than with what mi…
Women's letters, literature and conscience in sixteenth‐century England
Early modern letters have long been utilized for the light they shed on the religious consciences of women. In his seminal work, Patrick Collinson outlined the ‘confessional’ nature of women's correspondence with reformation preachers such as John Knox, Edward Dering, Thomas Cartwright and Thomas Wilcox. Traditional studies have approached letters as historical documents, reliable depositories of facts there to be picked clean by the assiduous sc…
Women and Writing, c.1340-c.1650: The Domestication of Print Culture
Essays offering a gendered approach to the study of the move from manuscript to early printed book show how much women were involved in the process. The transition from medieval manuscript to early printed book is currently a major topic of academic interest, but has received very little attention in terms of women's involvement, a gap which the essays in this volume address.They add female names to the list of authors who participated in the cre…
Women and Writing, C. 1340-C. 1650: The Domestication of Print Culture
Gender, Obedience, and Authority in Sixteenth-Century Women's Letters
This article examines obedience and authority through the lens of sixteenth-century women's correspondence as a way of unlocking the gendered nature of deferential behavioral codes and social attitudes in early modern England. Above all, it is interested in looking at women's status and place within the household, the ways in which familial relationships (and indeed the writing of letters) could encourage the formation of habits of submissiveness…
Writing Lives: Biography and Textuality, Identity and Representation in Early Modern England
This latest edited volume from the partnership of Sharpe and Zwicker brings to bear on the subject of early modern biographical writing the insights and methodologies of recent critical and theoretical approaches which have breathed new life into the histories of the book and reading. These trends are exhaustively elucidated in the impressively expansive introductory essay, which situates early modern life-writing in a trajectory traced from clas…
The Material Letter in Early Modern England
The first major socio-cultural study of manuscript letters and letter-writing practices in early modern England. Daybell examines a crucial period in the development of the English vernacular letter b
The Afterlives of Letters
Early modern letters once composed and dispatched had a peculiar afterlife that is textual, historic and archival. Letters were preserved and archived by contemporaries in a range of ways. They were locked in muniments rooms, endorsed usually with the date and a brief note of contents then folded and placed in bundles; they were kept in studies or closets, referenced for ease of retrieval as part of complex filing systems; they were also hidden u…
Social Negotiations in Correspondence between Mothers and Daughters in Tudor and Early Stuart England
This article examines correspondence between mothers and daughters in sixteenth- and early-seventeenth-century England, as a way of investigating the distinct nature of mother–daughter relationships during this period, and of studying the ways in which such relationships were negotiated through the epistolary medium. Based on approximately 100 letters extant for the period 1530 to 1620, it applies recent innovations in the field of Renaissance le…
Gender and Political Culture in Early Modern Europe, 1400─1800
Gender and Political Culture in Early Modern Europe investigates the gendered nature of political culture across early modern Europe by exploring the relationship between gender, power, and political authority and influence. This collection offers a rethinking of what constituted ‘politics’ and a reconsideration of how men and women operated as part of political culture. It demonstrates how underlying structures could enable or constrain politica…
Gender and Political Culture in Early Modern Europe, 1400-1800
Cultures of Correspondence in Early Modern Britain
Women and Epistolary Agency in Early Modern Culture, 1450–1690
Formal Matters: Reading the Materials of English Renaissance Literature
Formal Matters: Reading the Materials of English Renaissance Literature. Allison K. Deutermann and András Kiséry, eds. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2013. xii + 258 pp. $105. - Volume 69 Issue 4
The Future of Early Modern Studies: Embracing the Impact and Public Engagement Agenda
Gendering Objects at the V&A and Vasa Museums
This article presents two case studies, which are the result of the application of a gendered interpretative tool to the collections at the Victoria & Albert Museum (London) and the Vasa Museum (Stockholm). Objects and their gendered narratives within the museums’ collections were researched across their lifecycle, from commission and manufacture to consumption and display in a museum setting. This research was developed in close co-operation bet…
Gender and Materiality in Early Modern English Gloves
This article explores the complex interactions of gender with the materiality of the processes of becoming and being a glove in the early modern period. Through an investigation of gloves, glove parts, and their ephemeral presentation (through leather, embroidery, and perfume), we argue that gender and materiality act in dialogic ways to produce power relations, and that considerations of gender, power, and materiality are central to our understa…
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