{"id":1238,"date":"2017-03-28T16:02:49","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T15:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/?p=1238"},"modified":"2017-04-20T12:31:08","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T11:31:08","slug":"holinsheds-chronicles-donated-to-special-collections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/2017\/03\/28\/holinsheds-chronicles-donated-to-special-collections\/","title":{"rendered":"Holinshed\u2019s Chronicles donated to Special Collections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">On Monday 27<\/span><sup><span style=\"font-size: small\">th<\/span><\/sup><span style=\"font-size: medium\"> February, Special Collections &amp; Archives invited academics from the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies to an event marking a very exciting addition to their collections. The <\/span><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marlowe-society.org\/\"><u><span style=\"color: #0563c1;font-family: Calibri;font-size: medium\">Marlowe Society<\/span><\/u><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Calibri\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"> have generously loaned the University their 1587 copy of Raphael Holinshed\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-size: medium\"> in order for the books to be more accessible to students, staff and the wider public.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri\">Holinshed\u2019s <i>Chronicles<\/i><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: medium\">, first published in 1577, are one of the most famous history texts written during the Tudor period. The Chronicles were written by Holinshed alongside a number of collaborators, which gave readers the chance to read history through varied viewpoints. The 1587 edition, now held here in the Templeman Library, was significantly revised and expanded from the original 1577 work. What makes the Chronicles particularly important is that they were used as a historical source by early modern playwrights of the time \u2013 including William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe. Given Kent\u2019s numerous research activities in the Early Modern field across the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, the Chronicles will greatly enhance research and teaching within the campus community.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><br \/>\nTo celebrate the Chronicles arriving at Kent, Special Collections &amp; Archives hosted a reception near the Templeman Gallery. Short addresses were given by Professor Catherine Richardson from the School of English, Professor Kenneth Pickering, Chair of the Marlowe Society, The Lord Mayor of Canterbury and Richard Wilson, the Sir Peter Hall Professor of Shakespeare at Kingston University, followed by some light refreshments.\u00a0 Guests were then invited into the Reading Room to view the Chronicles in situ alongside other pre-1630 material held in Special Collections. Out on display were a variety of texts relating to the literary world the Chronicles formed part of, including Ben Jonson\u2019s 1616 Folio, the works of Beaumont and Fletcher and a 1598 edition of Chaucer\u2019s writing containing <\/span><i><span style=\"font-size: medium\">The Canterbury Tales<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-size: medium\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: medium\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: medium\">If you would like to see Holinshed\u2019s Chronicles \u2013 for research or for pleasure \u2013 they can be requested through <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/librarysearch.kent.ac.uk\/\"><u><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: medium\">LibrarySearch<\/span><\/u><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: medium\">, or you are welcome to email the team at <\/span><a href=\"mailto:specialcollections@kent.ac.uk\"><u><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: medium\">specialcollections@kent.ac.uk<\/span><\/u><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: medium\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday 27th February, Special Collections &amp; Archives invited academics from the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies to an event marking a very &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/2017\/03\/28\/holinsheds-chronicles-donated-to-special-collections\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2400,"featured_media":1239,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,124,70],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2400"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1240,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238\/revisions\/1240"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}