Patronage, Culture and Power
The Early Cecils
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16617052 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sara Nair James (0009-0000-4083-5246, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 954-955 |
| Publication date | 2004-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sixteenth Century Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0361-0160 • E-ISSN: 2326-0726 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/20477130 |
| OpenAlex | W613366484 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
The Cecils were the dominant noble family in Elizabethan and Jacobean England. William, Lord Burghley rose to power and great wealth under Elizabeth I, then used his extensive patronage and exceptional breadth of interests to advance the Cecils' remarkable political and cultural pre-eminence. This wide-ranging collection of essays draws on architectural and art history, court studies, English literature, garden history, musicology, economic history, and women's studies. The extensive building programme of William, Lord Burghley and his son Robert, Earl of Salisbury was the most spectacular of the 16th and early 17th centuries, and much of it, particularly Burghley House and Hatfield House, still survives. Their encouragement of new processes of manufacturing was, like their splendid houses, innovative, forward-looking and highly influential. The Cecils were also innovative patrons of the arts. They were pioneers in the vogue for collecting paintings; patrons of musicians such as John Dowland and writers such as Ben Jonson; and introduced new styles of Renaissance design into gardens and interiors. The Cecil women, too, were influential in both political and cultural spheres. The notable character of Mildred, Lord Burghley's wife, and the marriage alliances and female courtiership of the Cecil daughters are some of the themes explored in this refreshingly inter-disciplinary collection of essays
Physics · Power (physics · Historical Economic and Social Studies
‘The profession of a gentleman’
The Movement of Chinese Ceramics
Patronage, gentility, and “base degree”
Lord Burghley and Il Cortegiano
Halls of Power
Social Status and Classicism in the Visual and Material Culture of the Sweet Banquet in Early Modern England
The Plan, Furnishing and Function of a Jacobean Country House
I was never more in love with an olde howse nor never newe worke coulde be better bestowed’
Jacobean and Caroline Masquing Culture
Aristocratic and Gentry Women, 1460–1640
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2006 - 2024 (19) |
| Highly cited | No |