Early modern

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‘The False Marke of the Shadow of Honour’: The significance of honour in late Elizabethan political culture by Adam Diaper	This article explores the potential, latent within late sixteenth-century discourses of honour, for political and moral dissidence. In a letter to...	Elizabethan, political culture, Early modern, Shakespeare	view
The Future in the Instant: How Jacobean attitudes to the supernatural were shaped and reflected in popular print and early modern drama, with specific reference to Browne’s A New Almanacke and Prognostication and Shakespeare’s Macbeth by Sharon O'Connor	This article explores a prevalent discourse of the supernatural in Jacobean England including James I’s influence on cultural assumptions, as seen...	supernatural, Jacobean, Early modern, Superstition, Shakespeare, almanac	view
‘…all Altars [should] be taken down and clear removed even unto the foundation’: Edmund Grindal. Social and political doublethink in the Puritan movement by Craig Paterson	The purpose of this article is to consider the English Reformation, particularly within the late sixteenth century, from an interdisciplinary...	Reformation, Early modern, Christianity, puritan, memorial	view
The Hermaphrodite King: Polysemy and the failure of unity in William Davenant and Inigo Jones’ Salmacida Spolia by Debbie Hicks	This article interrogates the presentation of monarchy in Salmacida Spolia, a court masque staged during the escalating political turmoil that...	court masque, Charles I, Early modern, Inigo Jones, William Davenant	view
Arms and the Man by Marie Harrison	Weaponry and military equipment often has a role that extends beyond the merely functional. Through a juxtaposition of Shakespeare’s...	weaponry, Early modern, Shakespeare, rapier, British culture	view
Early modern women’s letter writing viewed through the lenses of portraiture and dramatic text by Deborah Richards	This essay will explore the epistolary activity of early modern women through the media of portraiture and dramatic text. It will...	Early modern	view
Bensalem’s Legal System by Francis Bacon (New Atlantis) and James I (True Law): Representations of God, kingship, knowledge and peace by Andres Font Galarza	This paper compares Bensalem's legal system in Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis with James I’s True Law tract. Whilst differing in form – fiction and...	Francis Bacon, Early modern, James I, Jacobean	view
The Making of English Slave Iconography: Emerging xenophobia toward black Africans in the coat of arms of Sir John Hawkins (1568) and Ben Jonson’s The Masque of Blackness (1605) by Daniel Jan Evans	This article will investigate the developing representations of black Africans during the Tudor and early Stuart periods. The presence of Africans...	Early modern, Tudor, court masque, Ben Jonson, xenophobia, slavery, emblems	view
A Picture of Pageantry and the Arches of Triumph: dramatic, visual, and literary representations of James I and the new Stuart dynasty through Thomas Dekker’s account of the 1604 Royal Entry and Stephen Harrison’s design for its setting by M Castelletti	Focussing on the printed account of Thomas Dekker’s ‘The Magnificent Entertainment’ and the arches designed by architect Stephen Harrison (...	socio-political, pageant, Early modern	view
Unica Semper Avis: The role of emblems in Elizabethan culture, using the Phoenix as a case study in Nicholas Hilliard’s Phoenix portrait and in the Chequers ring by Mariona Ponce Bochaca	The iconic image of Queen Elizabeth I was an essential part of her authority. The myth of the Virgin Queen was deliberately created to divert the...	Elizabeth I, Elizabethan, emblems, Nicholas Hilliard, phoenix, Early modern	view

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