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Selected Abstracts"A mercer ye wot az we be": The Authorship of the Kenilworth Letter ReconsideredENGLISH LITERARY RENAISSANCE, Issue 2 2008Elizabeth Goldring The authorship of the Kenilworth Letter, an account of the festivities staged at Kenilworth Castle during Queen Elizabeth I's 1575 progress, has long been a matter of debate, with some scholars suggesting that the work was a pseudonymous hoax foisted upon an unwitting Robert Langham. New findings, together with a re-examination of the existing evidence, suggest the following: first, that the Letter began life as a bona fide missive from Langham to his fellow mercer Humphrey Martin, which, though envisioned for circulation in manuscript, was almost certainly not , in the first instance at least , intended for publication; and second, that William Patten, to whom the Letter sometimes has been attributed in the past, may have been instrumental in the initial efforts to print the work, albeit without Langham's knowledge or permission. Also considered is the wider context of Elizabethan mercery, with particular reference to the close (but often overlooked) political, economic, and cultural ties between the court and the City of London. In addition, this article explores the extent to which the Letter offers a reliable guide to the people, places, and events it describes. [source] How should charitable organisations motivate young professionals to give philanthropically?INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NONPROFIT & VOLUNTARY SECTOR MARKETING, Issue 1 2004Rita Kottasz One hundred and fifty-eight bankers, accountants and corporate lawyers, aged under 40 years, earning more than £50,000 annually and working in the City of London were questioned about their attitudes and behaviour in relation to charitable giving. A conjoint analysis of the respondents' preferences revealed strong predilections for certain types of charitable organisation; for ,social' rewards in return for donating (invitations to gala events and black tie dinners for example); and for well-known charities with established reputations. ,Planned giving' whereby donors receive tax breaks and other financial incentives to donate (as increasingly practised in the USA) did not represent a significant inducement to give so far as this particular sample was concerned. Overall the results suggest that young affluent male City employees constitute a distinct market segment for charity fundraisers, with unique characteristics that need to be addressed when developing donor products. Copyright © 2004 Henry Stewart Publications [source] Capital Culture Revisited: Sex, Testosterone and the CityINTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF URBAN AND REGIONAL RESEARCH, Issue 3 2010LINDA McDOWELL Abstract In this essay I want to revisit and add to the arguments in my book Capital Culture: Gender at Work in the City, published a decade before the first signs of the current financial crisis. There I suggested that the City of London, the financial heart of the UK, is an arena riven by sexualized and gendered scripts: in other words capitalism is gendered. A decade or so later, these arguments seem just as relevant as the financial ,masters of the universe' are brought low, in part by their own behaviour. Here, I explore more explicitly the implications of testosterone-fuelled risk taking by both the traders and the chief executive officers of investment banks in the current world of casino capitalism. Résumé Ce travail reprend et complète le propos de Capital Culture: Gender at Work in the City, le livre que j'ai publié une décennie avant l'apparition des premiers signes de la crise financière actuelle. Cet ouvrage préconisait que la City de Londres, c,ur financier du Royaume-Uni, était une arène scindée selon des scénarios différenciés par sexe et genre, autrement dit le capitalisme était sexué. Près de dix ans plus tard, ces propos semblent tout aussi pertinents d'autant que les ,maîtres de l'univers' de la finance sont amoindris, en partie à cause de leur propre comportement. Sont examinées ici de plus près les implications des prises de risques nourries à la testostérone auxquelles se livrent à la fois les traders et les directeurs généraux des banques d'investissement dans un monde où règne un capitalisme de casino. [source] John Graunt on Causes of Death in the City of LondonPOPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT REVIEW, Issue 2 2009Article first published online: 12 JUN 200 First page of article [source] Perils of religion: need for spirituality in the public spherePUBLIC ADMINISTRATION & DEVELOPMENT, Issue 2 2006Paul Collins Abstract On both sides of the Atlantic, there is increased professional concern over roles in international public sector management,whether those of the policy makers, administrators or consultants. Growing numbers across many sectors feel an unprecedented crisis of identity and integrity. In international development, institutions often find themselves subordinated to the military in ever increasing conflict situations (the ,development-security complex'). Locally, the global tendency is for public administration to be ,re-engineered' on the basis of so-called ,market' values (the ,New Public Administration'). Private sector management models are, nevertheless, hardly exemplary. Corporate greed and scandals proliferate in a world featuring increasing poverty extremes, resurgence of old or advent in new diseases (e.g. HIV/Aids), environmental degradation and racism. This article takes, as its starting point, the fact that the workplace has become an insecure and alienating environment. In pursuing the relationship between spirituality and religion, the article next distinguishes between, the dogmatic, institutionalised and potentially dangerous characteristics of many religions and the more intuitively contemplative character of spirituality with its stress on awareness of self, impact on others and feeling of universal connectedness. Bearing in mind the often extremism as well as variety of religions (as distinct from spirituality), the second section examines the interrelationship between the two. A number of models are advanced concerning relationships between belief, belonging, salvation and ritual. It is argued that attention needs to be given to the inner side of religion, which requires individuals to embark on a spiritual journey through contemplation and reflection, rather than the more visible side of religion expressed in ritual. In sum, spiritual dialogue is offered as a way forward and as a mechanism for building spiritual community through engagement. The final part of the article focuses on a trans-Atlantic spiritual engagement initiative. Faith-based discussion groups have been formed amongst business executives and professionals in USA (the Woodstock Business Conference promoted out of Georgetown University) and more recently in the City of London at the St Paul's Cathedral Institute (the Paternoster Pilot Group). These aim to develop more meaningful work orientation: rediscovery of higher purpose and its relevance to restoration of ethical business and public service values, as well as better integration of personal and social domains. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] Nile street: mixed-tenure housingARCHITECTURAL DESIGN, Issue 3 2006Bruce Stewart Abstract Bruce Stewart describes how Munkenbeck and Marshall, a practice whose work is more often associated with high-end design, have, at a site in Hackney near the City of London, produced a complex scheme for Peabody that is considered in its treatment of mixed tenure. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] ROBERT HOOKE, MONUMENTS AND MEMORYART HISTORY, Issue 1 2005Christine Stevenson In June 1682, when Robert Hooke (1635,1703) delivered a lecture to the Royal Society on memory , his first and only excursion into human psychology , he had just witnessed a spectacularly public failure of memory when new texts were added to the Monument (1671,76), which he had designed with Christopher Wren. In a direct civic challenge to royal authority, these explained that the ,Papists' had set London's Great Fire of September 1666. This paper examines the tensions and accommodations between the City of London and Charles II that accompanied the Monument's erection; the column serves to dramatize the difficulties besetting would-be memorializers in Restoration England. It is suggested that Hooke's memory lecture must be read, not only in the light of specific political anxieties then attached to memory, but against the other ways in which he grappled with forms of signification, here treated as forms of historical witness. [source] THE EUROMARKETS AND THE NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT IN THE 1960SAUSTRALIAN ECONOMIC HISTORY REVIEW, Issue 3 2009John Singleton Euromarkets; New Zealand; city of London; globalisation The rapid development of the Euromarkets and the more gradual opening of the West German and other capital markets to external borrowers were significant events in the reglobalisation of financial markets beginning in the 1960s. Finding it increasingly difficult to borrow in the domestic British and US capital markets, the New Zealand government sought to take advantage of the Euromarkets. As well as providing an antipodean perspective on the early Euromarkets, this paper comments on developments in the City of London in the 1960s, and outlines the process by which a relatively inexperienced borrower set about building a communicating infrastructure that enabled relationships to be forged with overseas financial institutions. [source] | ||||||||||