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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... political and real currency as a result of a prosecution.“ Yet although the Crown brought charges and ran the courts, no single figure or office wholly controlled proceedings. Under the Tudors, the monarch's authority was perceived as ...
... political arena as sites of ideological production?'6 The Edwardian emphasis on “imagining” had created the legal space for new conceptions of patriotic or treacherous character, the former founded on an ideal of intellectual and ...
... political bases from which it took its meanings. Evidentiary uncertainties were prevalent in the recurring debates throughout the century over requirements for and number of witnesses, and they were compounded by the Tudor historical ...
... political writing, in which claims to plainness are claims to truth, to its selfauthenticating nature (people recognize it as familiar) and to its implicit ap— peal to a higher authority. In The Performance of Conviction, Kenneth J. E. ...
... political themes and national values came into prominence. Discourses of a developing national identity, the law reports provided a range of stories about how England might legitimately view and discipline itself. The earliest Tudor ...
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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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