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John Cruso of Norwich and Anglo-Dutch Literary Identity in the Seventeenth Century
The first book-length biography of John Cruso of Norwich (b. 1592/3), a second-generation migrant poet, translator and military author, that explores ideas and practices of identity formation in the early modern period.John Cruso of Norwich (b. 1592/3), the eldest son of Flemish migrants, was a man of many parts: Dutch and English poet, translator, military author, virtuoso networker, successful merchant and hosier, Dutch church elder and militia captain. This first book-length biography, making extensive use of archival and literary sources, reconstructs the life and work of this multi-talented, self-made man, whose literary oeuvre is marked by its polyvocality. Cruso''s poetry includes a D...
Military Instructions for the Cavalry by John Cruso: A Historical Reenactment Guidebook Written in 1632
This manual on the organisation and use of cavalry, quartermasters, officers, trumpeters, scouts, spies and fighting men of all grades was first published in 1632 and was the only English-language text of its kind in existence during the English civil war. As such, it was used by both the Royalists and the Parliamentarians. The book still resonates today, both because of its historical importance and because four centuries later it still contains a wealth of solid tactical and organisational advice. Topics addressed in the book include: The levying of men, their marching, camping and embatteling, the election of officers, distribution of booty, of exercising the lance, the harquebusier and carabine, ordering of scouts and patrols, securing the quarters, foraging and dealing with spies.
Horace across the Media
This volume explores various perceptions, adaptations, and appropriations of Horace in the Early Modern age across textual, visual and musical media. It thus intends to advocate an interdisciplinary and multi-medial approach to the exceptionally rich and variegated afterlife of Horace.
Calvinist Exiles in Tudor and Stuart England
This volume is a synthesis of the research articles of one of Europe’s leading scholars of 16th-century exile communities. It will be invaluable to the growing number of historians interested in the religious, intellectual, social and economic impact of stranger communities on the rapidly changing nation that was Elizabethan and early Stuart England. Southern England in general, and London in particular, played a unique part in offering refuge to Calvinist exiles for more than a century. For the English government, the attraction of exiles was not so much their Reformed religion and discipline as their economic potential - the exiles were in the main skilled craftsmen and well-connected merchants who could benefit the English economy.
