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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... Henry VII ascended the throne, definitions of treason rested primarily on a highly serviceable medieval statute. In 1352, Edward III had redefined treason (25 Edw. III st. 5 c.2) from behavior to thought, from a physical to a mental ...
... Henry's marriage to Anne Boleyn by making into treason deeds or written or printed words imperiling the king's person or prejudicing or slandering his recent marriage. In November 1534, another act (26 Hen. VIII c. 13) again made ...
... Henry's death, the first Edwardian act (1 Edw. VI c. 12) required the accusation of two “lawful and sufficient witnesses” or the suspect 's own confession for indictment, arraignment, or conviction for treason; it did not say if the ...
... Henry VIII's sign manual and the impounda“ ing of a copyholder's livestock, Queen Mary s pregnancy” and the depredations of mice upon court records, and Queen Elizabeth's use of “etc.” in the royal title and whether peacocks were ...
... Henry VIII to complain about the Inns and to prompt Elizabeth to try to shut them down. And second, the central pedagogical practice, mooting, through which law was taught not as a uniform code nor (and perhaps more importantly) as a ...
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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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