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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... 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 king might take to wife. A product of the Howard treason, which I take ...
... subject whose imaginings were understood to issue directly in “honest” and observable actions; continuity between an honest heart and a speaking body was assumed. In contrast, the traitor was a disintegrated dissembler whose behavior ...
... subject's interior. In cases where a crime left material traces, such as coining or faulty cloth-making, we might assume (wrongly, I would argue) that establishing evidence was a relatively straightforward matter because proof was ...
... subject under adjudication: Subjects as diverse as the authenticity of 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 ...
... subject to continuous challenge and refashioning by would-be proprietors. Holding the soil in place—making it English— is the purpose of mooting. Chapter 2 introduces the first of my prosecutions, that of Katherine Howard, which turns ...
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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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