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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Subjectivity and the Discourses of Treason in Early Modern England Karen Cunningham. This page intentionally lefi blank Contents Introduction 1 1 “Fugitive Forms”: Imagining the Realm 23.
... 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 This page intentionally lefi blank ...
... realm of imaginative discourse: “Only the poet, disdaining to be tied to any such subjection, lifted up with the vigor of his own invention, doth grow in effect another nature, in making things either better than nature bringeth forth ...
... realms and as lim— ited in others. The general concept that rulers received their authority from God extended back at least to the Middle Ages, and as the Tudors strengthened the power of the royal office in the sixteenth century, their ...
... realm or adhere to the king's enemies and be provably attaint of it by men of the offender's own condition; to counterfeit the great or privy seal of the king's coin, to introduce counterfeit money into England knowing it to be false ...
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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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