Imaginary Betrayals: Subjectivity and the Discourses of Treason in Early Modern EnglandUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, 2013 M05 29 - 224 páginas In 1352 King Edward III had expanded the legal definition of treason to include the act of imagining the death of the king, opening up the category of "constructive" treason, in which even a subject's thoughts might become the basis for prosecution. By the sixteenth century, treason was perceived as an increasingly serious threat and policed with a new urgency. Referring to the extensive early modern literature on the subject of treason, Imaginary Betrayals reveals how and to what extent ideas of proof and grounds for conviction were subject to prosecutorial construction during the Tudor period. Karen Cunningham looks at contemporary records of three prominent cases in order to demonstrate the degree to which the imagination was used to prove treason: the 1542 attainder of Katherine Howard, fifth wife of Henry VIII, charged with having had sexual relations with two men before her marriage; the 1586 case of Anthony Babington and twelve confederates, accused of plotting with the Spanish to invade England and assassinate Elizabeth; and the prosecution in the same year of Mary, Queen of Scots, indicted for conspiring with Babington to engineer her own accession to the throne. |
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... Coke. Rather than turn to the early codes, however, I turn to individual trials and attainders for treason. Close reading of the trials and plays allows us to see developing forms of Englishness as they are more fully represented in ...
... Coke's terms during the trial of Sir Walter Ralegh in 1603, the goal was to “make [the crime] appear to the world” as self—declaring in two senses 43: it must appear so obvious as to seem irrefutable, and. Introduction 11.
... Coke turned Ralegh's rhetorical skill into a sign of guilt and discredited his “wit” as political cunning: “Oh, sir! . . . I know with whom I deal,” Coke declaimed, “for we have to deal to-day with a man of wit.”54 The credibility of ...
... Coke recognized this popular interest when in the Institutes he defined the law report as a publike relation, or a bringing againe to memory cases judicially argued, debated, resolved, or adjudged in any of the king's courts of justice ...
... Coke, and an extract detailing “the manner and attendance of the Judges at the Coronation of Queen Anne.” 69 The personal opinions registered in reports varied widely, and informal opinions of respected men were sought and recorded. The ...
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Imagining the Realm | 23 |
2 Female Fidelities on Trial | 40 |
3 Masculinity Affiliation and Rootlessness | 77 |
4 Secrecy and the Epistolary Self | 110 |
Conclusion | 141 |
Notes | 145 |
Works Cited | 187 |
Index | 203 |
Acknowledgments | 215 |
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