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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... Scots, this act had no precedents; no earlier king had considered a subject's matrimonial plans treason. Within a few years the Henrician Parliament followed with an act making a new treason (33 Hen. VIII c. 23) concerning women the ...
... 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 rhetorical, and ...
... Scots.” In her detailed analysis of the Throckmorton trial, Annabel Patterson argues that Holinshed's work educated the public about legal matters: not only does the mere presence of the trial in the Chronicles serve an educational ...
... Scots—that this study in part attends.79 All were convicted of treason between 1542 and 1587; all were executed for their crimes against the realm.80 The Howard attainder, embedded in an unprece— dented legal situation in which 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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