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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... Mary I published in Strasburg in 1556. In A Short Treatise of Political Power, Ponet devoted a chapter to “What confidence is to be given to princes” and concludes that very little confidence is merited. Objecting. Introduction 5.
... Mary Douglas terms “cultural bias,” that drape of a national fabric that gives a society its peculiar slant or angle during a particular period.23 Yet starkly different consequences attend on these intersecting practices. At the end of ...
... Mary, Queen of Scots (1586), it was the authenticity of a packet of encrypted letters; and in the trial of Walter Ralegh (1603), it was the legitimacy of words as evidence. In every case the means of making the crime materialize were ...
... Mary in 1554, for example, Iohn Christopherson in his Exhortation to all menne to take hede and beware of rebellion (1554) drew the clear conclusion: if the queen “had been an adversary of His truth and of His holy word,” God “would ...
... 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 classified as domestic animals — all basked equally in the light of judicial scrutiny.68 ...
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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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