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Seeking the Supernatural: The Exorcisms of John Darrell and the Formation of an Orthodox Identity in Early Modern England
Posted on February 1, 2012 | No CommentsThis thesis examines the questions raised by Darrell‘s exorcisms and the ways in which they were shaped by relations of power. I hope that it will shed new light on the ways in which people formed their religious and ideological identities in this pivotal period in English history. -
Warning, Familiarity and Ridicule: Tracing the Theatrical Representation of the Witch in Early Modern England
Posted on February 1, 2012 | No CommentsThe image of the witch and the vehicle of the theatre seem to be a natural fit. The spectacle inherent in the supernatural aspects of the witch provided a wealth of vivid opportunities for the employing the latest in scenic and technical advances and for experimenting with the possibilities for new special effects. -
Musicians and Intelligence Operations, 1570-1612: Politics, Surveillance, and Patronage in the Late Tudor and Early Stuart Years
Posted on January 31, 2012 | No CommentsReligious and political upheavals in late Tudor England had markedconsequences on artistic patronage. Although this dissertation is not a comprehensive study of music patronage as it shifted with changing networks of power, I will propose that a form of alternative patronage did emerge with the growth industry in intelligence operations. -
The City of York in the time of Henry VIII
Posted on January 31, 2012 | No CommentsDuring this period, the role of the landed aristocracy was changing. With the creation of a professional standing army, in which soldiers were paid a wage, and the use of foreign mercenaries (think of the Swiss Guard), the traditional military function of the nobility receded. -
A Crisis in Regal Identity: The Dichotomy Between Levinia Teerlinc’s (1520-1576) Private and Public Images of Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603)
Posted on January 27, 2012 | No CommentsTeerlinc’s career began with an invitation to serve as official court painter to Henry VIII (1491-1547). After his death in 1554, she worked for Edward VI (1547-1553), Mary I (1516-1558), and finally Elizabeth I (1533-1603). -
The Family of Love and the Church of England
Posted on January 13, 2012 | No CommentsOn Oct 3, 1580,a Royal Proclimation was issued entitle, "Ordering Prosecution of the Family of Love". In it the Queen expresses her displeasure at "certain persons which do secretly in corners make privy assemblies of divers simple people unlearned people..." -
The Dean and Chapter of Durham, 1558-1603
Posted on January 3, 2012 | No CommentsThis thesis provides the first comprehensive study of the role of an Elizabethan Cathedral in society, perhaps doubly significant because it deals with the only diocese in which, according to Dr Collinson, the puritans had 'unfettered control'. -
The politics of art and religion : Absolutism and Catholic iconography in early Stuart England 1603-1649
Posted on December 21, 2011 | No CommentsThe two Stuart kings, James and Charles, brought important change to England. For inspiration to modernize, James I looked outside of England, a strategy more vigorously pursued by his successor Charles I. -
Why did Charles I fight the Civil War?
Posted on November 29, 2011 | No CommentsConrad Russell finds that it is easier to understand why sheer frustration may have driven Charles to fight than to understand why the English gentry might have wanted to make a revolution against him. -
The Coronation of Queen Elizabeth
Posted on November 22, 2011 | No CommentsOn January 16th, 1559, England’s twenty-five-year-old sovereign left Whitehall to be crowned Queen. This article, by A.L. Rowse, was first published in May 1953, exactly fifty years ago, in a special issue of History Today that marked the imminent coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. -
Secretaries, statesmen and spies: the clerks of the Tudor Privy Council, c. 1540-c. 1603
Posted on November 18, 2011 | No CommentsThe office of clerk of the Privy Council has been largely ignored by historians.While some individual clerks who eventually rose to the ranks of the Privy Council have drawn some attention from scholars, most clerks are unknown, or mentioned only tangentially in journal articles or historical monographs. -
Ophelia’s Mistreatment and Ignored Monastic Opportunities
Posted on October 16, 2011 | No CommentsAn examination of her relationship with Polonius and Laertes will culminate with an inspection of the relationship between Ophelia and Laertes, using the feminist theory employed by Virginia Wolf -
Tudor England’s Relations with Spain, the Holy Roman Empire and the Low Countries
Posted on October 16, 2011 | No CommentsAnglo-Netherlands relations hinged on the trading monopoly over English cloth exports granted by Henry VII to the Merchant Adventurers Company and the subsequent commercial treaty -
Promoting ‘English Civility’ in Tudor Times
Posted on October 14, 2011 | No CommentsPromoting ‘English Civility’ in Tudor Times Ellis, Steven G. (National University of Ireland, Galway) Tolerance and Intolerance in Historical Perspective, (University of Pisa, 2003) Like states everywhere, the 16th-century English monarchy regulated... -
The Life Of Jane Dormer Duchess of Feria
Posted on October 10, 2011 | No CommentsThe Life Of Jane Dormer Duchess of Feria Departamento de la Lengua Inglesa Intramuros – Studia: Commemrorative Booklet (1995) Abstract Acera del estilo de vida de una viuda de la... -
Sumptuary Legislation and the Fabric Construction of National Identity
Posted on October 10, 2011 | No CommentsSumptuary Legislation and the Fabric Construction of National Identity Early Modern England: Constructing the Past: Vol. 8: Iss. 1 (2007) SHULMAN, RACHEL Abstract As England transitioned from a medieval mode of... -
Inventing the Wicked Women of Tudor England: Alice More, Anne Boleyn, and Anne Stanhope
Posted on October 9, 2011 | No CommentsInventing the Wicked Women of Tudor England: Alice More, Anne Boleyn, and Anne Stanhope Warnicke, Retha M. (Arizona State University) Quidditas: Journal of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association,... -
Sir Francis Drake in the New World: 1577-1580
Posted on October 6, 2011 | No CommentsSir Francis Drake in the New World: 1577-1580 C. Lankins, Katherine Senior Seminar Paper, Western Oregon University, June 3 (2009) Abstract Eighty six years after Spain had claimed the New... -
William Herle and the English Secret Service
Posted on October 6, 2011 | No CommentsWilliam Herle and the English Secret Service Gill, Michael Patrick M.A. Thesis, Victoria University of Wellington (2010) Abstract This thesis examines William Herle‘s life through his surviving letters to William... -
Historicising Shakespeare’s Richard II: Current Events, Dating, and the Sabotage of Essex
Posted on May 5, 2010 | No CommentsHistoricising Shakespeare’s Richard II: Current Events, Dating, and the Sabotage of Essex Fitter, Chris Early Modern Literary Studies 11.2 (September, 2005) Abstract This essay unfolds three, interlinked arguments. First, on... -
Who Knows Who Knows Who’s There? An Epistemology of Hamlet (Or, What Happens in the Mousetrap)
Posted on May 4, 2010 | No CommentsWho Knows Who Knows Who’s There? An Epistemology of Hamlet (Or, What Happens in the Mousetrap) Roth, Steve Early Modern Literary Studies 10.2 (September, 2004) Abstract There is one singular... -
Monuments in Late Elizabethan Literature: A Conservatory of Vanishing Traditions
Posted on April 23, 2010 | No CommentsMonuments in Late Elizabethan Literature: A Conservatory of Vanishing Traditions Michel, J.Y. Early Modern Literary Studies 9.2 (September 2003) Abstract Although the word “monument” seems very straightforward, it has a... -
“O unquenchable thirst of gold”: Lyly’s Midas and the English quest for Empire
Posted on April 22, 2010 | No Comments“O unquenchable thirst of gold”: Lyly’s Midas and the English quest for Empire Connolly, Annaliese Early Modern Literary Studies 8.2 (September 2002) / Special Issue 10 Abstract This paper argues... -
“Subjected Thus”: Plague and Panopticism in Richard II
Posted on April 5, 2010 | No Comments“Subjected Thus”: Plague and Panopticism in Richard II Cox, Nick Early Modern Literary Studies 6.2 (September, 2000) Abstract This essay seeks to read Richard II from within a theoretical framework... -
The Healthy Body: Desire and Sustenance in John Lyly’s Love’s Metamorphosis
Posted on April 5, 2010 | No CommentsThe Healthy Body: Desire and Sustenance in John Lyly’s Love’s Metamorphosis Dooley, Mark Early Modern Literary Studies 6.2 (September, 2000) Abstract John Lyly’s play Love’s Metamorphosis is described on its... -
Ruling the World: The Cartographic Gaze in Elizabethan Accounts of the New World
Posted on April 1, 2010 | No CommentsRuling the World: The Cartographic Gaze in Elizabethan Accounts of the New World Koch, Mark Early Modern Literary Studies 4.2/ Special Issue 3 (September, 1998) Abstract The increasingly accurate and... -
Translated Geographies: Edmund Spenser’s “The Ruines of Time”
Posted on March 23, 2010 | No CommentsTranslated Geographies: Edmund Spenser’s “The Ruines of Time” Griffiths, Huw Early Modern Literary Studies 4.2/ Special Issue 3 (September, 1998) Abstract This paper deals with two ironic movements in relation... -
Partial Views: Shakespeare and the Map of Ireland
Posted on March 23, 2010 | No CommentsPartial Views: Shakespeare and the Map of Ireland Klein, Bernhard Early Modern Literary Studies 4.2/ Special Issue 3 (September, 1998) Abstract Contemporaries were divided over the visual power of maps:... -
Marlowe, Edward II, and the Cult of Elizabeth
Posted on March 18, 2010 | No CommentsMarlowe, Edward II, and the Cult of Elizabeth Kay, Dennis Early Modern Literary Studies 3.2 (September 1997) Abstract This paper seeks to relate Edward II to the cult of Elizabeth,... -
New Pleasures Prove: Evidence of Dialectical Disputatio in Early Modern Manuscript Culture
Posted on March 18, 2010 | No CommentsNew Pleasures Prove: Evidence of Dialectical Disputatio in Early Modern Manuscript Culture Downs-Gamble, Margaret Early Modern Literary Studies 2.2 (August 1996): Contents Abstract Thomas Fuller first related the legend that... -
“And shall I die, and this unconquered?”: Marlowe’s Inverted Colonialism
Posted on March 18, 2010 | No Comments“And shall I die, and this unconquered?”: Marlowe’s Inverted Colonialism Hopkins, Lisa Early Modern Literary Studies 2.2 (August 1996): Contents Abstract Critical attention has often been drawn to Christopher Marlowe’s... -
‘Lyke Chaucers boye’: Poetry and Penitence in Gascoigne’s Grief of Joye
Posted on March 18, 2010 | No Comments‘Lyke Chaucers boye’: Poetry and Penitence in Gascoigne’s Grief of Joye Laam, Kevin Early Modern Literary Studies 14.1/Special Issue 18 Abstract In The Renaissance Chaucer, Alice Miskimin argues that the... -
“A true Copie”: Gascoigne’s Princely Pleasures and the textual representation of courtly performance
Posted on March 17, 2010 | No Comments“A true Copie”: Gascoigne’s Princely Pleasures and the textual representation of courtly performance Anderson, Susan Early Modern Literary Studies 14.1/Special Issue 18 Abstract The Princely Pleasures at Kenelworth Castle describes... -
Introduction: ‘Thus Much I Adventure to Deliver to You’: the Fortunes of George Gascoigne
Posted on March 17, 2010 | No CommentsIntroduction: ‘Thus Much I Adventure to Deliver to You’: the Fortunes of George Gascoigne Hamrick, Stephen Early Modern Literary Studies 14.1/Special Issue 18 Abstract Four hundred thirty years after his... -
“Set in portraiture”: George Gascoigne, Queen Elizabeth, and Adapting the Royal Image
Posted on March 15, 2010 | No Comments“Set in portraiture”: George Gascoigne, Queen Elizabeth, and Adapting the Royal Image Hamrick, Stephen Early Modern Literary Studies 11.1 (May, 2005) Abstract The essay analyzes the images of Gascoigne and... -
Propaganda or a Record of Events? Richard Mulcaster’s The Passage Of Our Most Drad Soveraigne Lady Quene Elyzabeth Through The Citie Of London Westminster The Daye Before Her Coronacion
Posted on March 8, 2010 | No CommentsPropaganda or a Record of Events? Richard Mulcaster’s The Passage Of Our Most Drad Soveraigne Lady Quene Elyzabeth Through The Citie Of London Westminster The Daye Before Her Coronacion Leahy,... -
When Women Ruled the World: The Glorious Sixteenth Century
Posted on February 23, 2010 | No CommentsWhen Women Ruled the World: The Glorious Sixteenth Century Quilligan, Marueen Early Modern Culture, No. 5 (2006) Abstract From approximately the middle of the 16th century to close to its... -
The Dancing Table and the Bloody Cloth: A Response to “The Career of Cymbeline’s Manacle”
Posted on February 18, 2010 | No CommentsThe Dancing Table and the Bloody Cloth: A Response to “The Career of Cymbeline’s Manacle” Sullivan, Jr., Garrett A. Early Modern Culture, No. 1 (2000) Abstract The “career” of Prof.... -
The Career of Cymbeline’s Manacle
Posted on February 17, 2010 | No CommentsThe Career of Cymbeline’s Manacle Wayne, Valerie Early Modern Culture, No. 1 (2000) Abstract In 1602 at an entertainment performed before Queen Elizabeth at Harefield, the home of Sir Thomas... -
‘Effeminate Dayes’
Posted on February 17, 2010 | No Comments‘Effeminate Dayes’ Banks, Carol & Holderness, Graham Early Modern Culture, No. 1 (2000) Abstract Whilst acknowledging that these accounts, or primary historical sources, are observations and possible generalisations from a... -
The Aristocracy in Edward Ⅱ
Posted on January 6, 2010 | No CommentsThe Aristocracy in Edward Ⅱ Lee, Byung-Eun Medieval and Early Modern English Studies, Volume 16 No. 2 (2008) Abstract Edward II’s weakness is the subject of the play, but Marlowe... -
The Return of Elizabeth: William Poel’s Hamlet and the Dream of Empire
Posted on January 6, 2010 | No CommentsThe Return of Elizabeth: William Poel’s Hamlet and the Dream of Empire Im, Yeeyon Medieval and Early Modern English Studies, Volume 16 No. 1 (2008) Abstract This essay examines William... -
Her cruell hands: Love as Predation in Amoretti
Posted on January 6, 2010 | No CommentsHer cruell hands: Love as Predation in Amoretti Jeong, In-ju Medieval and Early Modern English Studies, Volume 16 No. 1 (2008) Abstract Although Edmund Spenser’s Amoretti has long been considered... -
Shakespeare’s England, Shakespeare’s Rome: National Anxiety and Imperial Nostalgia
Posted on January 6, 2010 | No CommentsShakespeare’s England, Shakespeare’s Rome: National Anxiety and Imperial Nostalgia Lee, Kyung-Won Medieval and Early Modern English Studies, Volume 15 No. 2 (2007) Abstract In European history the Middle Ages were... -
“The Lure of Intercultural Shakespeare”
Posted on January 3, 2010 | No Comments“The Lure of Intercultural Shakespeare” Im, Yeeyon Medieval and Early Modern English Studies, Volume 15 No. 1 (2007) Abstract Shakespeare is unarguably a most active participant in the so-called intercultural... -
“Remembering Cynthia: The Legacy of Elizabeth I in the Poetry of Aemilia Lanyer and Diana Primrose”
Posted on January 3, 2010 | No Comments“Remembering Cynthia: The Legacy of Elizabeth I in the Poetry of Aemilia Lanyer and Diana Primrose” Kim, Younkyung Medieval and Early Modern English Studies, Volume 15 No. 1 (2007) Abstract... -
The Early Education of Queen Elizabeth I and her later translation of Boethius’s De Consolatione Philosophiae
Posted on January 1, 2010 | No CommentsThe Early Education of Queen Elizabeth I and her later translation of Boethius’s De Consolatione Philosophiae Medieval English Studies, vol. 10 (2002) No. 2 Abstract Popular biographies of Elizabeth I,... -
The Rhetoric of Mortality: Elizabeth I’s Use of Death
Posted on December 30, 2009 | No CommentsThe Rhetoric of Mortality: Elizabeth I’s Use of Death Tesdal, Luke Early English Studies, vol. 1 (2007) Abstract This paper examines Elizabeth I’s use of death in her rhetoric. Built... -
Elizabeth’s Symbolic Marriage to England: A History of Lasting Union
Posted on December 30, 2009 | No CommentsElizabeth’s Symbolic Marriage to England: A History of Lasting Union Hall, Jill M. Early English Studies, vol. 1 (2007) Abstract This paper examines the rhetoric of Elizabeth’s speech about entering... -
Marlowe’s Tribute to His Queen in Dido, Queen of Carthage
Posted on December 30, 2009 | No CommentsMarlowe’s Tribute to His Queen in Dido, Queen of Carthage Caro-Barnes, Jennifer M. Early English Studies, vol.1 (2007) Abstract Christopher Marlowe’s title character in The Tragedy of Dido, Queen of...