Huntington Library Quarterly

ABSTRACT: William Trumbull the Elder was an efficient English diplomatic agent in the Netherlands, and his papers illustrate the intersection of diplomacy, espionage, and public controversies in late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Europe. This article examines a series of samples from his collection of printed pamphlets and the ways in which they relate to his manuscript archive. It therefore lays a path toward further research into Trumbull’s rich collections, which represent a singular hybrid lying at the intersection of manuscript and print, on the one hand, early modern journalism, prose fiction, and political satire, on the other. It focuses on a publishing genre that repurposed private manuscript documents into ostentatiously public political propaganda in print, frequently distributed in translation and in multilingual formats for an international readership. Trumbull’s documents, and the practices that they inform, are all part of the long history of information and knowledge production. As such, they constitute excellent case studies for the panoply of documentary genres used in the competition for political legitimacy conducted in the public arena, many of which resorted to a series of strategies that can be described as the manufacture of truth.

José María Pérez Fernández

“Burne this when yow have red it”: Secret Intelligence, Information Wars, and Political Satire in William Trumbull the Elder’s Papers

“读完即焚”：威廉·特伦布尔长老文稿中的秘密情报、信息战争与政治讽刺

ABSTRACT: This article explores the place that almanacs held in early modern English culture, offering evidence of how they shaped practices of time keeping and history writing. During a period in which the calendar was a site of religious discord and political debate, did the printed time of the almanac act as a regularizing force? How was history writing used to shape local and national identity in both England and New England colonies? Did the ephemeral nature of the almanac make time less valuable? Drawing on evidence from the previously unstudied annotated almanacs in the Huntington Library and the Beinecke Library, this article attends to the ways in which the time of the almanac was personalized and multitemporal. By focusing on traces of book use, the article examines the symbiotic relationship between readers and their books, arguing that the materiality of texts both reveals and shapes patterns of thought.

Catherine Evans

The Temporality of the Early Modern English Almanac

早期现代英语历书的时态性

abstract: Sir Walter Ralegh’s quest for El Dorado and gold mines in Guiana famously ended in failure. Yet his chronicle, The Discoverie of Guiana , and supporting works by George Chapman and Lawrence Keymis became quintessential texts of English imperialism, sustaining interest in colonization after decades of setbacks. This article considers how alchemical discourse reframed failure as a productive deferral of England’s imperial destiny. Drawing on English sericonian alchemy, Ralegh, Chapman, and Keymis envisioned empire transforming dissolute adventurers into virtuous and industrious men who would advance the state’s objectives and redeem Amerindians through good governance and Christianity. Metaphors of the chemical wedding downplayed Native dispossession by conceptualizing conquest and colonization as a benevolent, if initially violent, amalgamation of England and Guiana into a single polity. They urged Queen Elizabeth to fulfill providential history by accepting her role as alchemist of the imperial state. Though Ralegh could not transmute failure into success, the Guiana texts contributed to England’s “White Legend” and legitimized the eventual profits of empire as just compensation for spreading Protestantism and benefitting the commonwealth.

Karin A. Amundsen

Transmuting Words into Gold: Writing Failure in the Discovery of Guiana

将文字化为黄金：圭亚那发现中的写作失败

ABSTRACT: Scholars have given only passing attention to Francis Kirkman’s The Presbyterian Lash (1661), a polemical play offering gendered, sexual, and confessional commentary about efforts to remove a parson from the ecclesiastical living of London’s St. Botolph Aldgate. Yet when read within multiple contexts—national, municipal, and parochial—the play allows the linking of literary analysis of Restoration tragicomedy with historical scholarship on seventeenth-century clerical ejections. Making this connection not only reveals the generic flexibility of tragicomedy but also demonstrates how depriving clergy of their benefices between the 1640s and 1660s informed the memory and the religio-political dynamics of “England’s Second Reformation.”

Isaac Stephens

Memory’s Lash: Staging Parochial Politics in Restoration London

记忆的鞭笞：在复辟时期的伦敦上演地方政治

ABSTRACT: The relationship between London apprentices and playhouses in the Tudor period has tended to be viewed through the filter of guiding master narratives of class solidarity, local rivalry, subversive playhouses, unruly youths, or hegemonic control. In the case of William Webbe’s report of a riot by apprentice feltmakers on June 11, 1592, scholars have offered many interpretations in service of one or another of these narratives. This essay offers a reassessment of the events of that day based on the history of feltmakers’ apprentices and the geography of the Blackfriars in London, Bermondsey Street, the Bankside, and Newington Butts. By rewriting the events of that day based on such details, we find that the apprentices were a politically savvy group cannily using the theaters and geography of early modern London to assert their own self-advocacy.

Abbreviation	Huntingt. Libr. Q.
Journal Impact	0.17

ISSN	0018-7895, 1544-399X
h-index	23

Publication Information	Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press，Publishing cycle: ，Journal Type: journal，Open Access Journals: No
Basic data	Year of publication: 1996，Proportion of original research papers: 100.00%，Self Citation Rate:0.00%， Gold OA Rate: 0.00%

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“Burne this when yow have red it”: Secret Intelligence, Information Wars, and Political Satire in William Trumbull the Elder’s Papers

The Temporality of the Early Modern English Almanac

Transmuting Words into Gold: Writing Failure in the Discovery of Guiana

Memory’s Lash: Staging Parochial Politics in Restoration London

Beyond Master Narratives: A Reassessment of the Apprentice Riot of 1592

“Burne this when yow have red it”: Secret Intelligence, Information Wars, and Political Satire in William Trumbull the Elder’s Papers

The Temporality of the Early Modern English Almanac

Transmuting Words into Gold: Writing Failure in the Discovery of Guiana

Memory’s Lash: Staging Parochial Politics in Restoration London

Beyond Master Narratives: A Reassessment of the Apprentice Riot of 1592