Kempe, Margery. “Introduction”. The Book of Margery Kempe, translated by. Barry A. Windeatt, Penguin, 1994, pp. 9-30.
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Margery Kempe: 1501
Women writers item
Author event in Margery Kempe
1501
The early printer
printed seven pages from
's text as A Shorte Treatyse of Contemplacyon Taught by Our Lorde Ihesu Cryste.
1502: Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and...
1502
(also known as Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of the future
), endowed the Regius Professorship of Divinity at .
1505: Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and...
1505
, endowed .
Around 1505: William Dunbar composed the well-known poem...
Writing climate item
Around 1505
composed the well-known poem beginning I that in heill wes and gladnes (which in the late eighteenth century acquired the title The Lament for the Makaris): a poem in Scots on the...
1 July 1505: The Barber Surgeons of Edinburgh (forerunner...
1 July 1505
The Barber Surgeons of Edinburgh (forerunner of the
) were formally incorporated as a Craft Guild.
Margaret Roper: Probably October 1505
Women writers item
Author event in Margaret Roper
Probably October 1505
Margaret More (later
) was born, the eldest of her family.
Probably 1507: William Dunbar published The Tretis of the...
Writing climate item
Probably 1507
published The Tretis of the Twa Mariit Wemen and the Wedo (that is, the two married women and the widow), a satirical dialogue in Scots verse.
1508: Desiderius Erasmus, while staying with Sir...
Writing climate item
1508
, while staying with
on his second visit to England, wrote his Encomium Moriae (also known as In Praise of Folly), which was published the following year.
1508: The first printed books in Scotland appeared...
Writing climate item
1508
The first printed books in Scotland appeared from the Edinburgh press of
and
.
1508: Michelangelo painted the ceiling of the Sistine...
1508
painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel at Rome, two years after
had laid the foundation stone of St Peter's there.
21 April 1509: King Henry VII died; the next day Henry VIII...
National or international item
21 April 1509
died; the next day
assumed the throne of England. He began his reign by marrying
, widow of his brother Arthur.
Elizabeth Oxenbridge, Lady Tyrwhit : Probably by 1510
Women writers item
Author event in Elizabeth Oxenbridge, Lady Tyrwhit
Probably by 1510
was born at a manor called Brede Place (formerly Forde Place), at the village of Brede in East Sussex, into a family of five children (as well as an...
October 1510: Giorgione, painter of the Venetian school,...
October 1510
, painter of the Venetian school, died in Venice of the plague, still in his thirties.
1511: An English Act of Parliament restricted surgery...
National or international item
1511
An English Act of Parliament restricted surgery to qualified persons.
1511: Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and...
1511
, endowed .
Katherine Parr: 1512, probably August
Women writers item
Author event in Katherine Parr
1512, probably August
was born, either in London or in Buckinghamshire; she was the middle one of three children.
The belief that she was born at her father's castle at Kendal in Westmorland is mistaken. The...
7 September 1513: The English (under the leadership of Catherine...
National or international item
7 September 1513
The English (under the leadership of
, queen regent while her
was abroad) defeated the Scots at the battle of Flodden Field in Northumberland, just across the border from Coldstream, Scotland.
By 1514: Mary, daughter of Henry VII (sister of Henry...
By 1514
, daughter of
(sister of
and later Queen of France), had her own schoolmaster.
1514: The presence of people who claimed to be,...
National or international item
1514
The presence of people who claimed to be, and/or were called by authorities Egyptians (later known as Gypsies or Gipsies, now as Roma) was first recorded in England.
1515: The first free grammar school in England...
Writing climate item
1515
The first free grammar school in England was founded at Manchester. (Up to then fees had in principle been paid.)
1516: The first of several versions of Italian...
Writing climate item
1516
The first of several versions of Italian poet
's epic poem Orlando furioso (which means something like Mad Roland) appeared in print.
1516: Sir Thomas More published, not in England...
Writing climate item
1516
published, not in England but at Louvain, his socio-political satire and fantasy Utopia, written in Latin.
23 June 1516: The death of Ferdinand of Spain brought together...
National or international item
23 June 1516
The death of
brought together the huge territories of Aragon, Castile, Burgundy, and the Low Countries, under the rule of Charles of Ghent, who soon became Holy Roman Emperor as
1517: A printing press was set up at Oxford; Cambridge...
Writing climate item
1517
A printing press was set up at Oxford; Cambridge followed within three years.
31 October 1517: Luther pinned his manifesto (Ninety-Five...
31 October 1517
pinned his manifesto (Ninety-Five Theses) to the door of the castle church at Wittenberg in Germany. The theses were intended points for a university discussion which in the event never took place.