Download PDF by John M. Adrian: Local Negotiations of English Nationhood, 1570–1680

By John M. Adrian

ISBN-10: 0230307213

ISBN-13: 9780230307216

ISBN-10: 1349325619

ISBN-13: 9781349325610

Even in an age of rising nationhood, English women and men nonetheless notion a great deal by way of their parishes, cities, and counties. This publication examines the power of early glossy neighborhood recognition and its deployment through writers to mediate the bigger political, spiritual, and cultural adjustments of the 16th and 17th centuries.

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The positive effects of such perceived differences also inform chorographers’ assessments of the people of the county or city as a whole. ‘The Scots their neighbouring enemies, hath made the inhabitants of Northumberland fierce and hardy’ and skilled in the arts of war, says William Gray (24). ’ The landscape is not tedious and repetitive but ‘delight[s] in a continuall evenes’ (25). In the chorographies of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, almost any difference can become a valued distinction.

Herrick’s Hesperides focuses on the flora, fauna, customs, and rituals of his ‘western garden’ of Devonshire, Vaughan writes of the Welsh countryside in and around Breconshire, Fane describes the virtues of country estates in the East Midlands, and Izaak Walton’s cadre of anglers fish the River Lea just north of London. Indeed, the retirement benefits that these writers seek derive not so much from a limitless countryside as from the limited scope, quietness, and freedom from intrusion offered by a particular place.

And doubtles, in the handsome mouthing of them, the dialect seemes borne of our owne bodies and naturall unto us from the breasts of our nurses. (23) This passage aptly captures some of the defining features of chorography that we have already noted. It focuses on a particular place (Berkeley hundred) and draws attention to something that makes it distinctive (local proverbs). ’ The passage also asserts the intimate role of place in bringing forth these linguistic distinctions, imagining the proverbs to be as native, organic, and natural to residents as soil and breast milk.

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