Noah Millstone
Biographic Data
| ID | 3980499 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Noah Millstone |
| GIVEN NAMES | Noah |
| FAMILY NAME | Millstone |
| SIGNATURE | MILLSTONE N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Birmingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3549-8614 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Political Culture, the State, and the Problem of Religious War in Britain and Ireland, 1578–1625 , by R. Malcolm Smuts
Bishop Williams among the Puritans, 1621–1640
In 1627 the bishop of Lincoln, John Williams (1582–1652), was accused by a group of his diocesan subordinates of showing favour to Puritans. Williams was, however, no Puritan himself. A court bishop, Williams was fond of liturgical music and comfortable in elaborately decorated churches, and had regularly indulged in the anti-Puritanism fashionable in high government circles in the late 1610s and early 1620s. Thus in 1627, after being told that W…
Sir Robert Cotton, Manuscript Pamphleteering, and the Making of Jacobean Kingship during the Short Peace, ca. 1609–1613
This article concerns two manuscript tracts by Sir Robert Cotton, the Answer to Certain Military Men regarding Foreign War (1609) and Twenty-Four Arguments on the Strict Execution of the Laws against Seminary Priests (1613). To the limited extent that these tracts have been studied at all, historians have read them as artifacts of the Jacobean regime's internal counseling process. Through analysis of the both the structure of the Jacobean regime'…
Special Forum: Handwriting and Power in Early Stuart England Introduction
Early Stuart England was awash in handwriting. Handwriting was the medium of property records, law, account books, and scholarly note taking. A large share of government was conducted through handwritten policy briefs, registers, and circular letters. Equally, it was the medium of prisoners, beggars, petitioners, and village wits. Collectors compiled handwritten poems, prophecies, speeches, recipes, and anecdotes. The number of English people who…
Radical Voices, Radical Ways: Articulating and Disseminating Radicalism in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Britain, ed. Laurent Curelly and Nigel Smith
I confess to being something of a radicalism sceptic. As I see it, the main question confronting the historical study of radicalism is not, as the editors of the present volume suggest, whether or not it is wrong to apply the nineteenth-century term ‘radicalism’ to earlier phenomena. The notion that our own analytic vocabulary must be restricted to words and concepts used by the historical actors we study appears evidently ridiculous as soon as i…
Exile, Imprisonment, or Death: The Politics of Disgrace in Bourbon France, 1610–1789
Royal service was an uncertain career. While some were catapulted to the heights of power and influence, shifts in court faction, international geopolitics or sheer miscalculation could just as easily force insiders out. To the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century observers, the trajectories of such men and women were often held to teach a moral or spiritual lesson about the transitory character of worldly success. This was the rota fortunae, the …
Designed for Collection: Early modern news and the production of history
Although early modern news is often treated by scholars as a form of ephemera, news publications sometimes had a longer life: collected, bound together, read and considered long after the events they describe. This article examines how and why news, both printed and manuscript, became an object for early modern collectors, and how those collections were used. Drawing from the history of scholarship, it discusses some of the paratexts, like indice…
Manuscript Circulation and the Invention of Politics in Early Stuart England
Political Communication and Political Culture in England, 1558–1688
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Seeing Like a Statesman in Early Stuart England
The professional news-writer known as John Flower (fl. 1630) wrote his reports in a particular style. For example, in relating the exploits of King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, Flower dwelt on the king’s talent for misdirection. In mid-December 1631 Flower wrote that ‘whereas the rumor ran strongelie’ that the Swedes were besieging the city of Mainz, according to the most recent reports Gustavus ‘did but make a shew thereof’ and was instead on hi…
Historicising Common Sense
Evil Counsel: The Propositions to Bridle the Impertinency of Parliament and the Critique of Caroline Government in the Late 1620s
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Evil Counsel: The Propositions to Bridle the Impertinency of Parliament and the Critique of Caroline Government in the Late 1620s
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
Historicising Common Sense
Designed for Collection: Early modern news and the production of history
Although early modern news is often treated by scholars as a form of ephemera, news publications sometimes had a longer life: collected, bound together, read and considered long after the events they describe. This article examines how and why news, both printed and manuscript, became an object for early modern collectors, and how those collections were used. Drawing from the history of scholarship, it discusses some of the paratexts, like indice…
Seeing Like a Statesman in Early Stuart England
The professional news-writer known as John Flower (fl. 1630) wrote his reports in a particular style. For example, in relating the exploits of King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, Flower dwelt on the king’s talent for misdirection. In mid-December 1631 Flower wrote that ‘whereas the rumor ran strongelie’ that the Swedes were besieging the city of Mainz, according to the most recent reports Gustavus ‘did but make a shew thereof’ and was instead on hi…
Sir Robert Cotton, Manuscript Pamphleteering, and the Making of Jacobean Kingship during the Short Peace, ca. 1609–1613
This article concerns two manuscript tracts by Sir Robert Cotton, the Answer to Certain Military Men regarding Foreign War (1609) and Twenty-Four Arguments on the Strict Execution of the Laws against Seminary Priests (1613). To the limited extent that these tracts have been studied at all, historians have read them as artifacts of the Jacobean regime's internal counseling process. Through analysis of the both the structure of the Jacobean regime'…
Evil Counsel: The Propositions to Bridle the Impertinency of Parliament and the Critique of Caroline Government in the Late 1620s
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
Historicising Common Sense
Political Communication and Political Culture in England, 1558–1688
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
Seeing Like a Statesman in Early Stuart England
The professional news-writer known as John Flower (fl. 1630) wrote his reports in a particular style. For example, in relating the exploits of King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, Flower dwelt on the king’s talent for misdirection. In mid-December 1631 Flower wrote that ‘whereas the rumor ran strongelie’ that the Swedes were besieging the city of Mainz, according to the most recent reports Gustavus ‘did but make a shew thereof’ and was instead on hi…
Manuscript Circulation and the Invention of Politics in Early Stuart England
Designed for Collection: Early modern news and the production of history
Although early modern news is often treated by scholars as a form of ephemera, news publications sometimes had a longer life: collected, bound together, read and considered long after the events they describe. This article examines how and why news, both printed and manuscript, became an object for early modern collectors, and how those collections were used. Drawing from the history of scholarship, it discusses some of the paratexts, like indice…
Exile, Imprisonment, or Death: The Politics of Disgrace in Bourbon France, 1610–1789
Royal service was an uncertain career. While some were catapulted to the heights of power and influence, shifts in court faction, international geopolitics or sheer miscalculation could just as easily force insiders out. To the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century observers, the trajectories of such men and women were often held to teach a moral or spiritual lesson about the transitory character of worldly success. This was the rota fortunae, the …
Radical Voices, Radical Ways: Articulating and Disseminating Radicalism in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Britain, ed. Laurent Curelly and Nigel Smith
I confess to being something of a radicalism sceptic. As I see it, the main question confronting the historical study of radicalism is not, as the editors of the present volume suggest, whether or not it is wrong to apply the nineteenth-century term ‘radicalism’ to earlier phenomena. The notion that our own analytic vocabulary must be restricted to words and concepts used by the historical actors we study appears evidently ridiculous as soon as i…
Sir Robert Cotton, Manuscript Pamphleteering, and the Making of Jacobean Kingship during the Short Peace, ca. 1609–1613
This article concerns two manuscript tracts by Sir Robert Cotton, the Answer to Certain Military Men regarding Foreign War (1609) and Twenty-Four Arguments on the Strict Execution of the Laws against Seminary Priests (1613). To the limited extent that these tracts have been studied at all, historians have read them as artifacts of the Jacobean regime's internal counseling process. Through analysis of the both the structure of the Jacobean regime'…
Special Forum: Handwriting and Power in Early Stuart England Introduction
Early Stuart England was awash in handwriting. Handwriting was the medium of property records, law, account books, and scholarly note taking. A large share of government was conducted through handwritten policy briefs, registers, and circular letters. Equally, it was the medium of prisoners, beggars, petitioners, and village wits. Collectors compiled handwritten poems, prophecies, speeches, recipes, and anecdotes. The number of English people who…
Political Culture, the State, and the Problem of Religious War in Britain and Ireland, 1578–1625 , by R. Malcolm Smuts
Bishop Williams among the Puritans, 1621–1640
In 1627 the bishop of Lincoln, John Williams (1582–1652), was accused by a group of his diocesan subordinates of showing favour to Puritans. Williams was, however, no Puritan himself. A court bishop, Williams was fond of liturgical music and comfortable in elaborately decorated churches, and had regularly indulged in the anti-Puritanism fashionable in high government circles in the late 1610s and early 1620s. Thus in 1627, after being told that W…
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