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Part III: Treatises Introduction to Part III The materials we translate here do not fit neatly into one genre, but they are all, in different ways, discursive texts in which an author holds forth on a topic, for the benefit of others. We include some brief extracts on the topic of heresy that appear within works which take a much wider overall remit – the edification of the clergy, for example (Doc. 10A), or general theological treatises (Docs 12 and 13). Our choice here is guided by an interest both in orthodox thought
reasons of his practices? Yea, I dare affirm that all the philosophers in the world were never able to render any reason for the natural effects of those herbs and stones and bodies of men which you in your treatise of magic natural have mentioned, or of those that are mentioned by St August in one of his books De Civitate Dei vz. libro 21 ca. 5, 6, et 7, to the which places for avoiding prolixity I do refer you, where you shall not only read of many strange effects of natural things, but also be satisfied in this: that a reason is not to be required for everything
122 •  debating tudor policy in sixteenth-century ireland  • 3 • Treatise writing and the expansion of Tudor government in mid-Elizabethan Ireland, 1565–1578 The mid-Elizabethan period in Ireland was dominated by the administrations of Henry Sidney. Between his first appointment in 1565 and his final revocation in 1578 he served as lord deputy for eight years and significantly influenced the policies implemented under William Fitzwilliam’s caretaker government from 1571 to 1575. This was a period of marked expansion in the reach of crown government in
•  ‘reform’ treatises and tudor conquest, 1546–1565  • 77 2 • ‘Reform’ treatises and the inception of the Tudor conquest in mid-sixteenth-century Ireland, 1546–1565 The mid-Tudor and early Elizabethan period saw a notable reduction in the number of treatises being composed on the state of Ireland, at least by comparison with the flurry of writings which appeared in the years following the Kildare Rebellion. This is curious, for these years saw wide-sweeping changes in the country. In the two decades roughly beginning with Edward VI’s accession and running
1 The role of work in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century treatises on moral treatment in France, Tuscany and Britain Jane Freebody This chapter will assess whether British, French and Tuscan authors writing about the moral treatment of insanity in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries advocated work as an essential aspect of this new method of treatment.1 It will be argued that work was not considered an integral part of moral treatment throughout the period 1750–1840. The sources comprise sixteen contemporary publications focusing on