Utopia and Civic Politics in Mid-Sixteenth-Century London
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8957783 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jennifer Bishop (0000-0001-8284-1548, Newham College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 933-953 |
| Publication date | 2011-11-07 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Historical Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-246X • E-ISSN: 1469-5103 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0018246x11000343 |
| OpenAlex | W2081228036 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 18 |
During the seven years of Edward VI's reign, a variety of ideas about how best to reform the religious, economic, political, and social structures of the English commonwealth were devised, debated, and enacted. London's citizens and governors were increasingly occupied with developing legislative and institutional solutions for pressing social ills such as poverty and vagrancy: the question of how best to govern the commonwealth was not just a philosophical dilemma, but a practical concern. It was within this context that the first English translation of Thomas More's Utopia appeared in London. Published in 1551 by a group of citizens with a keen interest in social reform, the English Utopia may best be described as constituting an engagement with ideas of ‘good government’. This article draws on surviving evidence for the activities and concerns of Utopia' s producers, and in particular the sponsor and instigator of the translation, George Tadlowe, in order to demonstrate that this publication represented a timely combination of humanist theory and political practice typical of the civic culture of the Edwardian reformation
Commonwealth · Context (archaeology · Dilemma · Epistemology · Humanism · Ideology · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social order · Social science · Sociology · Utopia · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · History · Law · Philosophy · Public Administration
Poverty and policy in Tudor and Stuart England
Empty Tuns and Unfruitful Grafts
The Politics of Commonwealth
Literature and Culture in Early Modern London
Kingship and Politics in the Reign of Edward VI
The Early History of the Court of Chancery
Reading Holinshed's Chronicles
Theatre and Reformation
Slavery and Protector Somerset; the Vagrancy Act of 1547
London Bridge
Parliament under the Tudors
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,14 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2019 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |