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Boswell's Enlightenment

Boswell's Enlightenment

Robert Zaretsky

Quoted in Thomas Ahnert, “The Moral Education of Mankind: Character and Religious Moderatism in the Sermons of Hugh Blair,” in Character, Self, and Sociability in the Scottish Enlightenment, ed. Thomas Ahnert and Susan Manning (New ...
Henry VIII and History

Henry VIII and History

Thomas S. Freeman

Ruth Ahnert THE KING: Not the Holbein Henry, but a much younger man, cleanshaven, brighteyed, graceful and athletic. The Golden Hope of the New Learning throughout Europe. Only the levity with which he handles his absolute power ...
Male Friendship and Testimonies of Love in Shakespeare’s England

Male Friendship and Testimonies of Love in Shakespeare’s England

Will Tosh

Thomas Freeman and Ruth Ahnert have revealed the extent of the scribal networks established by Protestant inmates under Mary, and the anti-Catholic repression in the latter half of Elizabeth's reign saw similar practices developed by ...
Religion and the Origins of the German Enlightenment: Faith ...

Religion and the Origins of the German Enlightenment: Faith ...

Thomas Ahnert

Analysis of the close relationship between religion and secular learning in the works of one of the central figures of the early German Enlightenment, the jurist and philosopher Christian Thomasius (1655-1728).
The Atlantic Enlightenment

The Atlantic Enlightenment

Francis D. Cogliano

Thomas Ahnert* The German territories in the eighteenth century were part of the Atlantic Enlightenment.1 True, no German state had founded a colony in America ; there was no German mercantile organisation comparable to the trading ...
The Scottish Enlightenment and Literary Culture

The Scottish Enlightenment and Literary Culture

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For a more in-depth discussion of the origins of Scottish Moderatism, see Thomas Ahnert, The Moral Culture of the Scottish Enlightenment, 1690–1805 (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2015). 13. Nicholas Phillipson, “The Making of an ...
The Moral Culture of the Scottish Enlightenment: 1690–1805

The Moral Culture of the Scottish Enlightenment: 1690–1805

Thomas Ahnert

Recently, Jonathan Yeager has argued that one of the opponents of these “ Moderate literati” was also a “Christian Stoic” (see Jonathan Yeager, Enlightened Evangelicalism: The Life and Thought of John Erskine [Oxford: Oxford University  ...
‘News from the Republick of Letters’: Scottish Students, ...

‘News from the Republick of Letters’: Scottish Students, ...

Esther Mijers

The only direct discussion of Scotland and the republic of Letters of which I am aware is an unpublished paper by Thomas Ahnert, 'Scotland and the European republic of Letters, c.1680–1720' (rIcHES lecture series, Edinburgh, 2007).
Heresy in Transition: Transforming Ideas of Heresy in ...

Heresy in Transition: Transforming Ideas of Heresy in ...

John Christian Laursen

For an important counter-argument, in favour of the predominance of Thomasius's spiritualist lay theology, see Thomas Ahnert, 'The Prince and the Church in the Thought of Christian Thomasius,' in Ian Hunter and David Saunders (eds), ...
Character, Self, and Sociability in the Scottish Enlightenment

Character, Self, and Sociability in the Scottish Enlightenment

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See Thomas Ahnert, “Fortschrittsgeschichte und religiöse Aufklärung: William Robertson und die Deutung aussereuropäischer Kulturen,” in “Die Aufklärung und ihre Weltwirkung,” special issue, Geschichte und Gesellschaft 23 (2010): 101 –22.
Henry VIII and the Court: Art, Politics and Performance

Henry VIII and the Court: Art, Politics and Performance

Suzannah Lipscomb

Part IV: Court Culture 8 Inscribed in Memory: The Prison Poems of Sir Thomas Wyatt Ruth Ahnert 9 Receiving the King: Henry VIII at Cambridge Susan Wabuda 10 Performing Henry at the Court of Rome Catherine Fletcher Part V: Reactions ...
A Methodical System of Universal Law: Or, The Laws of Nature ...

A Methodical System of Universal Law: Or, The Laws of Nature ...

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Or, The Laws of Nature and Nations : with Supplements and a Discourse Thomas Ahnert, Peter Schröder. NATURAL LAW AND EN LIGHT E N M E N T CLASSICS A Methodical System of Universal Law: Or, the Laws of Nature and Nations, ...
George Thomas: Virginian for the Union

George Thomas: Virginian for the Union

Christopher J. Einolf

George Thomas to John Thomas, 25 January 1841 ,Thomas Papers,VHS. 25. Thomas to Thomas, 25 January 1841. 26. George Thomas to C. P. Kingsbury, 25 July 1841.This letter is no longer extant, but is printed in Coppee, Thomas, 7—9.
Sensory Experience and the Metropolis on the Jacobean Stage ...

Sensory Experience and the Metropolis on the Jacobean Stage ...

Hristomir A. Stanev

London between 1578 and 1616, less than 20 do not make any explicit references to prisons.57 In her recent examination of the representation of houses of correction in Renaissance drama, Ruth Ahnert indicates that the jail “ appears to have ...
Wyatt Abroad: Tudor Diplomacy and the Translation of Power

Wyatt Abroad: Tudor Diplomacy and the Translation of Power

William T. Rossiter

Further thanks must go to all those people over the years who have been subjected to me talking about Wyatt at various conferences (Mike Rodman Jones, Ruth Ahnert, Jo Craigwood, Tracey Sowerby and Helen Graham-Matheson, to name ...
Alun Hoddinott: A Source Book

Alun Hoddinott: A Source Book

Professor Stewart R Craggs

A Source Book Professor Stewart R Craggs. Thomas, Dylan, 159 Thomas, Gwion , 136, 190 Thomas, Gwn, 72 Thomas, Gwyn, 179, 185, 187, 197 Thomas, Hugh, 174 Thomas, Kelvin, 118, 131 Thomas, Mansel, 41, 44, 84 Thomas, Martin, 170 ...
The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century

The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century

Ruth Ahnert

4 These particular words are compatible with Anne's sacramentarian beliefs, but, as Leslie Fairfield has observed, the specific words 'mutuall pertycypacyon' raise a small question. They happen to be the words that Bale himself used rather ...
Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London

Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London

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1697 1 1 w OttoMencke W.O. 3 p. 659 81 21 I Thomas Smith W B.L. 23 I W Thomas Smith B.L. 2oI w Thomas Smith B.L. H.L.C. n.xii [»] 29 I Thomas Smith W B.L. II II Thomas Smith W B.L. 13 HI Thomas Smith w B.L. 19 III Leibniz w W.O. 3 p .
Heresy Trials and English Women Writers, 1400–1670

Heresy Trials and English Women Writers, 1400–1670

Genelle Gertz

In particular, Ruth Ahnert, Tom Betteridge, KimColes, Megan Hickerson, VictorHouliston, Erica Longfellow,Kathleen Lynch, SusannahMonta, Mark Rankin , VanceSmith, Stefano Villani,Diane Vincent, and Susan Wabuda offered advice and ...
Annotated Chaucer bibliography: 1997-2010

Annotated Chaucer bibliography: 1997-2010

Mark Allen

... Scottish writing, and drama, with a subsection dedicated to “Chaucerian” poems—i.e., “poems of the Chaucerian apocrypha.” Reviews: Ruth Ahnert, Marginalia 8 (2007–08): n.p.; J. A. Burrow, N&Q 254 (2009): 644–45; Derek Pearsall, JEGP ...
A Thomas More source book

A Thomas More source book

Sir Thomas More (Saint)

"A Thomas More Sourcebook" brings together classic texts by and about Thomas More to reflect his views on education, politics, church-state relations, love, and friendship.
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, Volume 8: ...

The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, Volume 8: ...

Thomas Jefferson

1 October 1814 to 31 August 1815 Thomas Jefferson J. Jefferson Looney ... OxfordshireOX20 1TW All Rights Reserved Library of Congress Cataloging-in- Publication Data Jefferson, Thomas, 1743–1826 The papers of Thomas Jefferson .
Aeronautics

Aeronautics

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William Geoffrey Moore. George Hancock Reid. Thomas Yaughan Lister. Thomas Francis Netterville Gerrard. Oswald Noel Walmesley. James Edward Baker Maclean. John Daniel Newberry. Thomas Hinshelwood. t rank Thomas Digby.
Thomas' Milkshake Muddle (Thomas & Friends)

Thomas' Milkshake Muddle (Thomas & Friends)

Rev. W. Awdry

These three stories from the latest release are filled with the same gentle humor and familiar friends as all of the very popular Thomas Picturebacks.First, Thomas is taking milk to the dairy to make ice cream for a big party, and if he ...
The Salvage

The Salvage

Dorothy Swaine Thomas Thomas

Dorothy Swaine Thomas Thomas, Charles Kikuchi, James Minoru Sakoda. procedure was not correct, so it had to be stopped. This action was instigated by Dr. [X], an Issei who had resided in this country for many years. He claimed that it was ...
The Poems of Dylan Thomas

The Poems of Dylan Thomas

Dylan Thomas

This new, revised edition of The Poems of Dylan Thomas is based on the collection edited by Thomas's life-long friend and fellow poet, Daniel Jones, first published by New Directions in 1971.
Memoirs of the life and ministry of the late Rev. Thomas ...

Memoirs of the life and ministry of the late Rev. Thomas ...

Thomas Raffles

Thomas Raffles. endure. You know poor White, of Chester, has received the end of his faith — the salvation of his soul; I delivered the oration over his ... Wishing much to see you, I remain, dear Sir, "Affectionately your's, "Thomas Spencer.
The British Tariff ...

The British Tariff ...

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Edwin K. Chatwin. Thomas O'Connor. Joseph Tilley. Stephen Cooper. Thomas Robinson. James Wood, Thomas Boyes. ... J. Perrin. William Davis. John Wade. Thomas Luck. Joseph Dewar. George Ladbury. Third C'lass.—-Stephen C. March .
Thomas' 123 Book (Thomas & Friends)

Thomas' 123 Book (Thomas & Friends)

Rev. W. Awdry

This companion to the perennial classic Thomas' ABC Book teaches numbers to train-obsessed little boys and girls ages 3-7 as only Thomas & Friends can. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Congressional Serial Set

Congressional Serial Set

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Osborn 11. Thomas and Wm. Osborn Henry Thomas _ _ Henry Thomas _ Henry Thomas _ Henry Thomas _ Henly Thomas ... 1 1833, July "9 0:410:11, Joseph Osborn, Joseph Osborn, Joseph Osborn, Joseph Osborn, Joseph Osborn, Jozoph ...

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