Papers by Guillaume Coatalen
A fairly long congratulatory letter in Italian on Elizabeth I’s accession to the throne dated 3 F... more A fairly long congratulatory letter in Italian on Elizabeth I’s accession to the throne dated 3 February 1559 followed by two previously unknown sonnets in her praise, also in Italian, by Celio Magno (1536–1602), have survived in the State Papers (SP 70/2 f.94). The document deserves to be edited for several reasons. Firstly, the sonnets may be added to the Venitian poet’s canon. Secondly, Celio Magno was a high-ranking politician and diplomat and the manuscript offers fascinating information on the precise relationships between the Republic of Venice and the queen at the very beginning of her reign, a crucial and relatively under-researched period. Finally, the letter and sonnets contribute to a better understanding of the queen’s representation abroad and more specifically in Italy.
E-rea, 2016
The volume is divided into three parts, “Religion, Ideology and Philosophy”, “Art and Science”, “... more The volume is divided into three parts, “Religion, Ideology and Philosophy”, “Art and Science”, “Travelling and Circulation” and contains ten chapters and an appendix followed by a general bibliography and an index. The title of the third part is not as straightforward as the other two and while religion, ideology, philosophy, art and science belong to spheres of knowledge or types of discourse, travelling and circulation are almost synonymous terms both concrete and abstract. It turns out th...
Notes and Queries, 2014
We consider the differential equation /" + A(z)f + B(z)f = 0 where A(z) and B(z) are entire funct... more We consider the differential equation /" + A(z)f + B(z)f = 0 where A(z) and B(z) are entire functions. We will find conditions on A(z) and B(z) which will guarantee that every solution / ^ 0 of the equation will have infinite order. We will also find conditions on A(z) and B(z) which will guarantee that any finite order solution / ^ 0 of the equation will not have zero as a Borel exceptional value. We will also show that if A(z) and B(z) satisfy certain growth conditions, then any finite order solution of the equation will satisfy certain other growth conditions. Related results are also proven. Several examples are given to complement the theory.
This thesis intends to examine the various poetic means from the most to the least obvious that H... more This thesis intends to examine the various poetic means from the most to the least obvious that Herbert uses for a double purpose: for his own edification as well as to praise God. This poet created a liturgical poetry, which contributed to the foundation of the Church of England. For a church that has never developed a systematic theology, The Temple (1633) became an important work of its most glorious past. Herbert laid the foundation of a national creed by producing poetry in which every single element celebrates the relationship between the subject and God. To this end, he attempts to imitate Christ, whom he regards as the greatest poet, and to recreate a poetic Word. His new rhetoric conjures up a world related to that of the courtier in the first place, but also to the figure of the poet and Christ. At another level, his rhetoric deals with the basic problem of religious poetry of how to invoke a God who is immanent and inaccessible at the same time. His metaphors evoke the my...
A collection focusing on the extensive foreign correspondence of Elizabeth I, one of the most imp... more A collection focusing on the extensive foreign correspondence of Elizabeth I, one of the most important documentary sources for the political history of the period. The book includes new editions and translations of 15 French and Italian letters by Elizabeth as well as essays on language, rhetorical structures, political contexts and materiality. 'This is a superb collection, and one of the best collections on Elizabeth (possibly on early modern history generally) produced over the past few years. This is partly because of the consistently high quality of the essays themselves, but it also owes much to the overall concept and approach. The combination of edited texts and investigative essays allows sustained and detailed examination of key issues—the process of letter-writing, about language and how it is used, and about the materiality of letters—which we need in order to understand early modern politics.' (Natalie Mears in The English Historical Review).
The early modern English sonnet, 2020
The Petrarchan love sonnet and the figure of the sonneteer kept appearing in seventeenth-century ... more The Petrarchan love sonnet and the figure of the sonneteer kept appearing in seventeenth-century plays (generally comedies) long after the fourteen-line poem is usually said to have waned. The plays discuss the sonnet both as a poetic form and as a tool for social advancement; the staging of sonneteering as a mercantile activity practised by incompetent sonneteers (most usually amateur poets from the country gentry) appears as a means to reflect on poetic language. Sonnets are deemed to be superior to ballads according to a hierarchy of poetic genres which reflects the social hierarchy. The evidence gathered in the wide array of seventeenth-century plays studied suggests that after the ‘sonnet craze’, when received poets in the canon had moved on to anti-Petrarchan poetics, or poetics which had little to do with the Petrarchan model, more ordinary rhymers kept on imitating the Canzoniere, and still claimed they composed sonnets. The continuous stream of attacks against the sonnet therefore also testifies to the deep mark it left upon early modern English poetry.
Two Elizabethan Treatises on Rhetoric, 2017
Guillaume Coatalen offers annotated editions of Richard Reynolds’s The Foundacion of Rhetorike (1... more Guillaume Coatalen offers annotated editions of Richard Reynolds’s The Foundacion of Rhetorike (1563), which has not been edited since the 1945 facsimile edition, and of William Medley’s unknown A Brief Discourse of Rhetorike which survives in a single manuscript dated 1575.
Two Elizabethan Treatises on Rhetoric, 2017
Guillaume Coatalen offers annotated editions of Richard Reynolds’s The Foundacion of Rhetorike (1... more Guillaume Coatalen offers annotated editions of Richard Reynolds’s The Foundacion of Rhetorike (1563), which has not been edited since the 1945 facsimile edition, and of William Medley’s unknown A Brief Discourse of Rhetorike which survives in a single manuscript dated 1575.
Huntington Library Quarterly, 2017
We review recent developments in the use of magnetic lattices as a complementary tool to optical ... more We review recent developments in the use of magnetic lattices as a complementary tool to optical lattices for trapping periodic arrays of ultracold atoms and degenerate quantum gases. Recent advances include the realisation of Bose-Einstein condensation in multiple sites of a magnetic lattice of one-dimensional microtraps, the trapping of ultracold atoms in square and triangular magnetic lattices, and the fabrication of magnetic lattice structures with sub-micron period suitable for quantum tunnelling experiments. Finally, we describe a proposal to utilise long-range interacting Rydberg atoms in a large spacing magnetic lattice to create interactions between atoms on neighbouring sites.
Representations of Elizabeth I in Early Modern Culture, 2011
Queen Elizabeth wrote more letters in French than in any other foreign language and for this reas... more Queen Elizabeth wrote more letters in French than in any other foreign language and for this reason alone, her French correspondence deserves to be more widely read. Judging by the number of letters in French in London, Guildhall Library, MS 1752, a letter-book dated 1595–99, contemporaries took them as seriously as they did her letters in Latin and English, and a provisional estimate suggests the existence of around five hundred items of this kind. Like Latin, French was a diplomatic lingua franca and was used just as frequently. If one discounts letters to Mary, Queen of Scots, the French correspondence concerns essentially two main groups of addressees: those in France and those in the Low Countries. A smaller number of letters were also addressed to a handful of Italian, German and Portuguese rulers. The letters to Queen Mary prove that French was not only a language reserved for diplomatic exchanges but was also favoured whenever sensitive decisions bearing directly on who was to rule the kingdom needed to be discussed. The Queen started writing in French at a young age and never stopped. More significantly still, it was in this language that she recorded her impressions of events that she deemed of particular note, as in her letter to Mary, Queen of Scots, dated 24 February 1567, on the subject of Lord Darnley’s murder (Elizabeth I, 2003, pp. 126–7). The present study is based on a relatively small sample of letters in French: those included in the Chicago edition of Elizabeth’s collected works, and some unchartered and unedited letters kept at the Bibliotheque Nationale de France (hereafter BnF) and in the Guildhall letter-book.
George Herbert Journal, 2012
Little is known about George Herbert’s reception in Scotland in the late seventeenth century, a t... more Little is known about George Herbert’s reception in Scotland in the late seventeenth century, a topic which has not been researched extensively. But Herbert’s poetic presence at that time in Scotland is illustrated by two manuscripts that have emerged, each containing numerous transcriptions of poems from The Temple. Robert Wodrow’s commonplace book, National Library of Scotland, MS 2824, is the work of a thirteen-year-old student, and includes twenty-eight poems by Herbert. Andrew Symson’s miscellany, Edinburgh University Library, MS La. III. 432, is that of an older clergyman – he was thirtytwo years old when he finished copying Herbert’s verses, as indicated by the note in the manuscript beneath “Iudgement” which reads “Kr. Maij. 12°. 1671. transc. 6. fol. posteri A.S,” and probably fifty-seven when he completed the manuscript around 1691, the date of the death of his close friend Sir George McKenzie, celebrated in one of his numerous elegies. Symson copied thirty of Herbert’s poems into his miscellany. In what follows, I will discuss the background of each writer; the dates, provenance, and contents of each manuscript; and the significance of what they extract from The Temple.
Études anglaises, 2021
Cet article propose une edition critique commentee et annotee d’un choix de six lettres extraites... more Cet article propose une edition critique commentee et annotee d’un choix de six lettres extraites de la correspondance entre Robert Cecil (1er juin 1563-24 mai 1612), secretaire d’Etat de la Reine Elisabeth Ire et de Jacques Ier, et son fils William Cecil, Vicomte Cranborne (28 mars 1591-3 decembre 1668). Cette edition ne rend pas simplement disponibles des sources particulierement eclairantes sur la pratique de l’ecriture et sa portee sociale parmi les membres les plus puissants de la cour jacobeenne, elle donne aussi l’exemple d’une edition savante de manuscrits de la premiere modernite, maniere la plus evidente de contribuer aux etudes aussi bien litteraires qu’historiques.
Two Elizabethan Treatises on Rhetoric
Guillaume Coatalen offers annotated editions of Richard Reynolds’s The Foundacion of Rhetorike (1... more Guillaume Coatalen offers annotated editions of Richard Reynolds’s The Foundacion of Rhetorike (1563), which has not been edited since the 1945 facsimile edition, and of William Medley’s unknown A Brief Discourse of Rhetorike which survives in a single manuscript dated 1575.
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M. Bajetta, Guillaume Coatalen and Jonathan Gibson (Basingstoke:
Palgrave Macmillan, 2014; pp. xxv + 269. £56.50).
Guillaume COATALEN : Further Explorations in Early Modern Manuscripts
Carlo M. BAJETTA : Manuscript(s) Matter: Paleography, Philology and Resistance to Theory
Amy BOWLES : Scribal Verse Manuscripts: The Poems Copied by Ralph Crane
Jonathan GIBSON and Guillaume COATALEN : Robert Cecil’s Handwriting Advice to his Son
Jonathan GIBSON : The Development of William Cecil’s Italic Handwriting
Arthur F. MAROTTI : Poetry outside the Literary Canon: The Rare or Unique Verse by Minor or Little-known Authors in Early Modern English Manuscripts
Julia CRAIG-McFEELY : Elizabethan and Jacobean Lute Manuscripts: Types, Characteristics and Compilation.
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