CLERICAL CONFORMITY AND THE ELIZABETHAN SETTLEMENT REVISITED

Celibacy and Clerical Culture

• . . f o r the manner of thy begetting is so foule that the name, nay the lightest thought of it, d~leth the purest minde, so that our B. Sauiour refused none of our miseries, but on@ that," and the matter so horrid, so foule, that all other dung is pleasant and gratefull in respect of it; nay we dare not in discourse glue it a name, for our owne shame & others of fence. . . I cannot imagine a...

An Elizabethan Enigma

The last thing William Shakespeare wants to be is predictable. Roughly halfway through his published collection of one hundred and fifty-four sonnets, he frets that we may find it dull that he “write[s] . . . all one, ever the same,” producing one fourteen-line poem after another (76.5). He has reason to worry: he rarely allows himself to deviate from a strict iambic pentameter, and holds his v...

The Elizabethan Idea of Empire

This paper argues that the English idea of empire in the reign of Elizabeth I was derivative, belated and incoherent. Its sources were classical and continental rather than indigenous. It arose more than a century after the Scottish monarchy had elaborated its own conception of empire. Moreover, it expressed a sense of backwardness, isolation and anxiety that mirrored the English failure to est...

Elizabethan Dyetary of health

Clerical Aptitude In Library Employment

A L L T H E BASIC operations and many of the more complex ones in a library depend fundamentally upon clerical aptitude. Clerical aptitude is necessary in shelving books, in filing various types of cards, in searching for missing books, in using catalogs and indexes, and in revising slipping or typing or cataloging— indeed in almost every operation required in a library. The clerical aptitude r...