Thorne, John (d. 1573), composer and poet

Evidence for Middle Bronze Age Chronology and Synchronisms in the Levant: A Response to Höflmayer et al. 2016

“…1). riau 19811987;1990;1991;1997;Bietak 1984;1989;1991;Seidlmayer 1990;Arnold, Arnold, and Allen 1995;Smith 1995: 53-69, 75-79;Bourriau and Quirke 1998;Bader 2001;Aston 2004;Seiler 2005;Bietak and Kopetzky 2012) and is confirmed by recent excavations in Egypt and Lower Nubia (Smith 1995: 51-90;6 Ben-Tor 2007a: 8-9; Wegner 2007: 231-85). In addition, recent scarab studies strongly support not only the relative chronological synchronism between Egypt and the Levant proposed by Bietak (Bietak et al 2008;Ben-Tor and Bell in press) but also the historical links of these synchronisms (Bietak, Forstner-Müller, and Mlinar 2001;Ben-Tor 2003;2007a: 185-93;Mlinar 2004;Boschloos 2012;.…”

A New Context for the Manuscript of <i>Wit and Science</i>

“…York Minster appointed Thorne organist in 1542, having paid him the previous year as 'organist within the choir', 37 but by the 1550s he already had connections both with some of the other contributors to Add MS 15233 and with St Mary-at-Hill. His first appearance in records, in fact, is in the list of clerks and conducts at the church in 1539/40, where he was paid £5 16s for the year's work.…”