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:[[Coles 2008]] -- argues that the figure of the religious woman had disruptive cultural power
:[[Coles 2008]] -- argues that the figure of the religious woman had disruptive cultural power


:[[Killeen 2011]]
:[[Killeen 2011]] -- short article arguing we need a more robust understanding of how the bible shaped discussions around regicide; take seriously religious beliefs and biblical rhetoric
 
:[[White 2011]]
 
:[[Molekamp 2013]] -- most comprehensive study of early modern women's religious writings and experiences to date


:[[Wilcox 2014]]
:[[Wilcox 2014]]
== Acland-Troytes ==
Acland-Troyte family papers in the Devon Archives: http://devon-cat.swheritage.org.uk/records/ACT
http://devon-cat.swheritage.org.uk/records/2547M
== LG-related mss ==
* 'AFFLICTIONS THE LOTT OF THE GODLY': religious tract by an unidentified woman writer; mid-17th cent.: BL: http://searcharchives.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/display.do?tabs=detailsTab&ct=display&fn=search&doc=IAMS041-002073714&indx=12&recIds=IAMS041-002073714&recIdxs=1&elementId=1&renderMode=poppedOut&displayMode=full&frbrVersion=&dscnt=0&scp.scps=scope%3A%28BL%29&frbg=&tab=local&dstmp=1499105570123&srt=rank&mode=Basic&dum=true&vl(freeText0)=%22little%20gidding%22&vid=IAMS_VU2
* The letter about the nunnery at LG, at the BL: http://searcharchives.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/display.do?tabs=detailsTab&ct=display&fn=search&doc=IAMS041-002073714&indx=12&recIds=IAMS041-002073714&recIdxs=1&elementId=1&renderMode=poppedOut&displayMode=full&frbrVersion=&dscnt=0&scp.scps=scope%3A%28BL%29&frbg=&tab=local&dstmp=1499105570123&srt=rank&mode=Basic&dum=true&vl(freeText0)=%22little%20gidding%22&vid=IAMS_VU2
* John Ransom on John Ferrar's library: https://www.brown.edu/Facilities/John_Carter_Brown_Library/exhibitions/foundjcb/pages/2014july.html
== Eliot ==
https://books.google.com/books?id=Ndb_HDuycu0C&pg=PA685&lpg=PA685&dq=houghton+eliot+bible&source=bl&ots=UOlEI9k4AD&sig=_6mOfX89g7GWfGhe7DHQQmJsE7Y&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwir5pfUoc7XAhVJNiYKHTqpBCwQ6AEIKDAB#v=onepage&q=houghton%20eliot%20bible&f=false


== transtemporal ==
== transtemporal ==
=== anachronism ===
[[de Grazia 2010]] -- Historians, following in many ways the art historian Erwin Panofsky, argue that the Renaissance is marked in distinction from the medieval period by its historical consciousness; and with that awareness or sense of the past comes a concern for anachronism. de Grazia argues this is more a function of disciplinary concerns and periodization than the Renaissance itself and ends by suggesting an openness to anachronism as one of many ways of relating to the past, as scholars.
[[Nagel and Wood 2010]] --


"Transnational history is all the rage. Transtemporal history has yet to come into vogue." ([[Guldi and Armitage 2014]] 15)
"Transnational history is all the rage. Transtemporal history has yet to come into vogue." ([[Guldi and Armitage 2014]] 15)
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Anachronic Renaissance
Anachronic Renaissance
"polychronic" readings -- Latour, Serres
--> 17c was a moment when scholars were using material stuff to try to understand history, to conceptualize it, weave together the various histories that were becoming known; e.g. James Ussher mapping biblical chronology onto political chronology, in a way that became standard, written in margins of Bibles [did LG do any chronology?] -- see [[Parry 1995]] on Ussher and chronology
== Feminisms ==
[[Kember 2016]] -- offers up a model of genre blending (interwoven excerpts from novel-in-progress, theory, manifesto); influenced deeply by Haraway and "Sf", finding figures that are in-between; reading of "manifesto" that could ground the genre of the intro; queries glass and its intentions to mediate transparently whill still being present (c.f. with [[Galloway 2012]] -- media aim to but can never fully disappear), and advocates hypermediacy as feminist alternative; showing/exposing the messiness of mediation as feminist strategy to undo/rewrite/restory the myths of technology
== other cut-up bibles ==
http://s-usih.org/2017/07/no-king-of-kings
http://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2016/10/missals-from-silverstream-priory-4.html#.WYMfn9N96Hr
== Fragments ==
[[Vismann 2001|Vismann, Cornelia. "The Love of Ruins." ''Perspectives on Science'' 9.2 (2001): 196-209.]]
https://books.google.be/books?id=ih8v4qPkwf4C&pg=PA171&dq=paintings+fragments+larger+compositions&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjgzK3H7LHVAhWFmbQKHYxDBuIQ6AEIKjAB#v=onepage&q=paintings%20fragments%20larger%20compositions&f=false
Leo Bronstein, Fragments of Life (1953)
John Pinto, Speaking ruins : Piranesi, architects, and antiquity in eighteenth-century Rome (2012)
What Jane Saw -- related to art cabinet paintings
Memory Fragments
by Bullock, Marita
03/2012, 1, ISBN 1841505536
Taking as its starting point four contemporary visual artists whose work utilizes the conventions of museum display and collecting practices, "Memory Fragments" examines how these artists... Minorities, Art, Australia, History, In art, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING, Power Resources General, Cultural pluralism, Found objects (Art), Nationalism, Minorities in art, Nationalism in art
Romantic complications with the fragment
by Patton, Whitnee Brooke
, 2016, ISBN 1369472242
This thesis examines the complicated ways in which the British Romantics looked at the fragment... Museum studies, Art history, British and Irish literature
[[Preservation of Historical Records 1986]]
Facts or Fragments? Visual Histories in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
by Arnold, Dana
Art History, ISSN 0141-6790, 09/2002, Volume 25, Issue 4, pp. 450 - 468
.... She is the series editor of New Interventions in Art History and general editor of two further series... ART, Art history
On the limits of the work of art: The fragment in visual culture
by Innes, Randy Norman
, 2009, ISBN 9780549985952
The influence the romantic fragment had on literature, poetry, and philosophical criticism has been studied extensively... Film studies, Architecture, Philosophy, Art history
An Alliance of Fragments: Actor-Network-Theory and the Translation of Things
by Gurney, Janice
, 2012, ISBN 9780494895160
...  An Alliance of Fragments:Actor-Network-Theory and the Translation of Things (Spine Title: An Alliance of Fragments)(Thesis Format: Monograph) by Janice... Fine arts, Art history
http://middleshore.electric.press/essays/weston_essay.html
might return to Ted Nelson, "A File Structure for the Complex, The Changing and the Indeterminate" ([[Nelson 1965]]) -- laying out a theory of writing as PROCESS; talks about his system making use of fragments, managing manipulating fragmentary nature of writing/textuality
"Outmoded commodities are fossilized forms that may -- through their inert persistence -- ultimately unsettle notions of progress and thereby force a reevaluation of the material present. While commodities might guide us to a space of speculative promise, the vestiges of these promises are all around us. These fossils persist in the present even as the assumed progress of history renders them obsolete. Within and through these forms, more complex narratives accumulate, which describe technologies not only as they promise to be but also as they materialize, function, and fall apart." ([[Gabrys 2013]], 7)
"In this material method, I attempt to develop a practice of thought that works through cast-off objects in order to take up the density and 'scatter' of electronic materialities. This is a method that, following Benjamin, focuses on the 'micrological and fragmentary,' in order to 'relate them directly, in their isolated singularity, to material tendences and social struggles.'" (8) -- working "across fragments and fossils to material processes and social conditions" ([[Gabrys 2013]], 8)

Latest revision as of 15:41, 18 November 2021

This is a space for research notes on my monograph, based on my dissertation. For dissertation notes on Little Gidding, see this link.

Bibliography

On the Harmonies

Acland-Troyte 1888 -- early accounts of Harmonies, written from perspective of someone who owned one (now the Cotsen volume)
Henderson 1982 -- on Bolswert's engravings as extra-illustrations in Bibles, relationship to Laudian controversies
Stewart 1986 -- chapter on the Harmonies as materializations of values of Herbert's verse
Dyck 2003 -- on active reading and harmony construction as Herbertian process of devotion
Ransome 2005 -- account of the Harmonies and changes to them over time
Baron et al. 2007 -- Aston on use of Images from Foxe's Book of Martyrs in the King's Harmony
Dyck 2008 -- overview and close reading of King's Harmony, including some moving parts; excellent descriptions of Bibles used and their connection to court
Hallock et al. 2008 -- discussion of some of the natural imagery in King's Harmony & eclectic model of ecological justice
Nelson and Terras 2012 -- Dyck et al. on process of digitizing/marking up King's Harmony
Dekoninck et al. 2012 -- Michael Gaudio, discussion of concordances as both obsessed with visual imagery and iconoclastic, esp. Acts and Revelations
Smyth 2012 -- on Herbert's verse and the rhetoric of cutting, quoting Harmonies & their connection to GH
Gaudio 2013 -- Harmonies as walking fine line between popery and puritanism; Laudian double-rhetoric
Smyth 2015 -- denaturalizes cutting/pasting; on archive of unusued prints
Cop 2016 -- drawing attention to LG's use of Garthwait's Monotesseron in King's Harmony

On the Story Books & Little Academy

Barbour 2001 -- reads LG, esp Story Books, as example of Caroline "church heroic," a post-Elizabethan Protestant synthesis of myth and lived reality
Lynch and Scott 2008 -- Kate Riley, background and context on purpose of Little Academy
Shuger 2014 -- excellent discussion of LG as experiment in republicanism and even feminism, through close readings of the Story Books and Mary's role as Mother

On Nicholas Ferrar or LG in general

Bindley 1887 -- brief first-hand account of a pilgrimage to LG; rehashing biography's descriptions of life in the community
Fletcher 1893 -- brief mention of community in context of history of bookbinding
Skipton 1907 -- biography/hagiography of Nicholas Ferrar
Ransome 2009 -- on the afterlife of LG, efforts to publish NF biography and material remnants of community -- plans to use this material to support development of religious socities
Ransome 2011 -- biography of Nicholas Ferrar and the community
Ransome 2015 -- on the "Instructions" of NF and education at LG

On Mary Ferrar

Sharland 1912 -- about Mary Collet as "Mother" of the community, and a letter from Crashaw mentioning his affection for her after his exile
Pebworth and Summers 1997 -- Paul Parrish, article on LG as proto-feminist community, focusing on Mary Collet and relation to Crashaw
Shuger 2014 -- excellent discussion of LG as experiment in republicanism and even feminism, through close readings of the Story Books and Mary's role as Mother

On Herbert & LG

Stewart 1986 -- chapter on the Harmonies as materializations of values of Herbert's verse
Dyck 2003 -- on active reading and harmony construction as Herbertian process of devotion
Ransome 2008 -- focusing especially on development of night vigils and temperance; translations of Valdes and others
Smyth 2012 -- on Herbert's verse and the rhetoric of cutting, quoting Harmonies & their connection to GH

Cutting / Fragmentation

Erler 1992 -- "pasted-in embellishments"
Smyth 2004 -- A discussion of John Gibson's commonplace or miscellany, showing how he used fragmented prints and printed texts, anagrams, and collecting practices to express a pro-Crown agenda.
Fleming 2010
Smyth 2012 -- on Herbert's verse and the rhetoric of cutting, quoting Harmonies & their connection to GH

Early Modern Women / Religion / Bibles

Hill 1993
Coles 2008 -- argues that the figure of the religious woman had disruptive cultural power
Killeen 2011 -- short article arguing we need a more robust understanding of how the bible shaped discussions around regicide; take seriously religious beliefs and biblical rhetoric
White 2011
Molekamp 2013 -- most comprehensive study of early modern women's religious writings and experiences to date
Wilcox 2014

Acland-Troytes

Acland-Troyte family papers in the Devon Archives: http://devon-cat.swheritage.org.uk/records/ACT http://devon-cat.swheritage.org.uk/records/2547M

LG-related mss

Eliot

https://books.google.com/books?id=Ndb_HDuycu0C&pg=PA685&lpg=PA685&dq=houghton+eliot+bible&source=bl&ots=UOlEI9k4AD&sig=_6mOfX89g7GWfGhe7DHQQmJsE7Y&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwir5pfUoc7XAhVJNiYKHTqpBCwQ6AEIKDAB#v=onepage&q=houghton%20eliot%20bible&f=false

transtemporal

anachronism

de Grazia 2010 -- Historians, following in many ways the art historian Erwin Panofsky, argue that the Renaissance is marked in distinction from the medieval period by its historical consciousness; and with that awareness or sense of the past comes a concern for anachronism. de Grazia argues this is more a function of disciplinary concerns and periodization than the Renaissance itself and ends by suggesting an openness to anachronism as one of many ways of relating to the past, as scholars.

Nagel and Wood 2010 --


"Transnational history is all the rage. Transtemporal history has yet to come into vogue." (Guldi and Armitage 2014 15)

preposterous history -- ""In alignment with intercultural relationality, we could call it intertemporal . Such a term reminds us of the thick mutuality of relation, as opposed to a lean linearity of progress." (Bal 2008 152)

--> read Bal, Quoting Caravaggio, for more on preposterous history

Harris 2009 on "untimely matter"

Dane 2013

Erkki Huhtamo's latest book

Geology of Media

Manuel de Landa, A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History

microhistory -- Ginzburg 1980

Zielinski -- deep time of the media

Anachronic Renaissance

"polychronic" readings -- Latour, Serres

--> 17c was a moment when scholars were using material stuff to try to understand history, to conceptualize it, weave together the various histories that were becoming known; e.g. James Ussher mapping biblical chronology onto political chronology, in a way that became standard, written in margins of Bibles [did LG do any chronology?] -- see Parry 1995 on Ussher and chronology

Feminisms

Kember 2016 -- offers up a model of genre blending (interwoven excerpts from novel-in-progress, theory, manifesto); influenced deeply by Haraway and "Sf", finding figures that are in-between; reading of "manifesto" that could ground the genre of the intro; queries glass and its intentions to mediate transparently whill still being present (c.f. with Galloway 2012 -- media aim to but can never fully disappear), and advocates hypermediacy as feminist alternative; showing/exposing the messiness of mediation as feminist strategy to undo/rewrite/restory the myths of technology

other cut-up bibles

http://s-usih.org/2017/07/no-king-of-kings

http://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2016/10/missals-from-silverstream-priory-4.html#.WYMfn9N96Hr

Fragments

Vismann, Cornelia. "The Love of Ruins." Perspectives on Science 9.2 (2001): 196-209.

https://books.google.be/books?id=ih8v4qPkwf4C&pg=PA171&dq=paintings+fragments+larger+compositions&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjgzK3H7LHVAhWFmbQKHYxDBuIQ6AEIKjAB#v=onepage&q=paintings%20fragments%20larger%20compositions&f=false

Leo Bronstein, Fragments of Life (1953)

John Pinto, Speaking ruins : Piranesi, architects, and antiquity in eighteenth-century Rome (2012)

What Jane Saw -- related to art cabinet paintings

Memory Fragments by Bullock, Marita 03/2012, 1, ISBN 1841505536 Taking as its starting point four contemporary visual artists whose work utilizes the conventions of museum display and collecting practices, "Memory Fragments" examines how these artists... Minorities, Art, Australia, History, In art, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING, Power Resources General, Cultural pluralism, Found objects (Art), Nationalism, Minorities in art, Nationalism in art

Romantic complications with the fragment by Patton, Whitnee Brooke , 2016, ISBN 1369472242 This thesis examines the complicated ways in which the British Romantics looked at the fragment... Museum studies, Art history, British and Irish literature

Preservation of Historical Records 1986

Facts or Fragments? Visual Histories in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Arnold, Dana Art History, ISSN 0141-6790, 09/2002, Volume 25, Issue 4, pp. 450 - 468 .... She is the series editor of New Interventions in Art History and general editor of two further series... ART, Art history

On the limits of the work of art: The fragment in visual culture by Innes, Randy Norman , 2009, ISBN 9780549985952 The influence the romantic fragment had on literature, poetry, and philosophical criticism has been studied extensively... Film studies, Architecture, Philosophy, Art history

An Alliance of Fragments: Actor-Network-Theory and the Translation of Things by Gurney, Janice , 2012, ISBN 9780494895160 ... An Alliance of Fragments:Actor-Network-Theory and the Translation of Things (Spine Title: An Alliance of Fragments)(Thesis Format: Monograph) by Janice... Fine arts, Art history

http://middleshore.electric.press/essays/weston_essay.html

might return to Ted Nelson, "A File Structure for the Complex, The Changing and the Indeterminate" (Nelson 1965) -- laying out a theory of writing as PROCESS; talks about his system making use of fragments, managing manipulating fragmentary nature of writing/textuality

"Outmoded commodities are fossilized forms that may -- through their inert persistence -- ultimately unsettle notions of progress and thereby force a reevaluation of the material present. While commodities might guide us to a space of speculative promise, the vestiges of these promises are all around us. These fossils persist in the present even as the assumed progress of history renders them obsolete. Within and through these forms, more complex narratives accumulate, which describe technologies not only as they promise to be but also as they materialize, function, and fall apart." (Gabrys 2013, 7)

"In this material method, I attempt to develop a practice of thought that works through cast-off objects in order to take up the density and 'scatter' of electronic materialities. This is a method that, following Benjamin, focuses on the 'micrological and fragmentary,' in order to 'relate them directly, in their isolated singularity, to material tendences and social struggles.'" (8) -- working "across fragments and fossils to material processes and social conditions" (Gabrys 2013, 8)