Courtly Letters In The Age Of Henry Viii
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Author | : Seth Lerer |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1997-08-07 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780521590013 |
This revisionary study of the origins of courtly poetry reveals the culture of spectatorship and voyeurism that shaped early Tudor English literary life. Through research into the reception of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, it demonstrates how Pandarus became the model of the early modern courtier. His blend of counsel, secrecy and eroticism informed the behaviour of poets, lovers, diplomats and even Henry VIII himself. In close readings of the poetry of Hawes and Skelton, the drama of the court, the letters of Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn, the writings of Thomas Wyatt, and manuscript anthologies and early printed books, Seth Lerer illuminates a 'Pandaric' world of displayed bodies, surreptitious letters and transgressive performances. In the process, he redraws the boundaries between the medieval and the Renaissance and illustrates the centrality of the verse epistle to the construction of subjectivity.
Author | : Henry Viii |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 34 |
Release | : 2018-05-15 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781387812929 |
This book contains the complete, authentic collection of eighteen love letters exchanged between King Henry VIII of England and Anne Boleyn. Boleyn was Henry's second wife, gaining his favour after his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, failed to provide him with the male heir he dearly craved. By all historic accounts, their initial romance was passionate and the epitome of courtly manners. This narrative is reinforced by the letters between the two as they encircled and eyed one another, awaiting the chance to commence romantic liaisons. The education and eloquence of both authors is in full display here, and the letters' authenticity is undisputed. Although in time the marriage was to sour with deadly consequences for Anne Boleyn, there is little reason to doubt the initial passion and thrill both experienced at the outset of their intimacy.
Author | : Henry VIII (King of England) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 80 |
Release | : 1906 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Great Britain. Public Record Office |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 728 |
Release | : 1875 |
Genre | : Archives |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jeroen Deploige |
Publisher | : Amsterdam University Press |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9053567674 |
The power of monarchs has traditionally been as much symbolic as actual, rooted in popular imagery of sovereignty, divinity, and authority. In Mystifying the Monarch, a distinguished group of contributors explores the changing nature of that imagery—and its political and social effects—in Europe from the Middle Ages to the present day. They demonstrate that, rather than a linear progression where perceptions of rulers moved inexorably from the sacred to the banal, in reality the history of monarchy has been one of constant tension between mystification and demystification.
Author | : J. Daybell |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 373 |
Release | : 2012-04-24 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1137006064 |
The first major socio-cultural study of manuscript letters and letter-writing practices in early modern England. Daybell examines a crucial period in the development of the English vernacular letter before Charles I's postal reforms in 1635, one that witnessed a significant extension of letter-writing skills throughout society.
Author | : Anita Auer |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 351 |
Release | : 2015-07-16 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1139992031 |
Letter Writing and Language Change outlines the historical sociolinguistic value of letter analysis, both in theory and practice. The chapters in this volume make use of insights from all three 'Waves of Variation Studies', and many of them, either implicitly or explicitly, look at specific aspects of the language of the letter writers in an effort to discover how those writers position themselves and how they attempt, consciously or unconsciously, to construct social identities. The letters are largely from people in the lower strata of social structure, either to addressees of the same social status or of a higher status. In this sense the question of the use of 'standard' and/or 'nonstandard' varieties of English is in the forefront of the contributors' interest. Ultimately, the studies challenge the assumption that there is only one 'legitimate' and homogenous form of English or of any other language.
Author | : Michael Hattaway |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 800 |
Release | : 2002-11-08 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781405106269 |
This is a one volume, up-to-date collection of more than fifty wide-ranging essays which will inspire and guide students of the Renaissance and provide course leaders with a substantial and helpful frame of reference. Provides new perspectives on established texts. Orientates the new student, while providing advanced students with current and new directions. Pioneered by leading scholars. Occupies a unique niche in Renaissance studies. Illustrated with 12 single-page black and white prints.
Author | : Nicola Tallis |
Publisher | : Michael O'Mara Books |
Total Pages | : 355 |
Release | : 2024-02-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1789295203 |
The first fully comprehensive biography of the young Elizabeth I in over twenty years, drawing on a rich variety of primary sources from both Elizabeth herself and those closest to her during her tumultuous youth.
Author | : James Daybell |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2018-09-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0192566687 |
This book represents the most comprehensive study of women's letters and letter-writing during the early modern period so far undertaken, and acts as an important corrective to traditional ways of reading and discussing letters as private, elite, male, and non-political. Based on over 3,000 manuscript letters, it shows that letter-writing was a larger and more socially diversified area of female activity than has been hitherto assumed. In that letters constitute the largest body of extant sixteenth-century women's writing, the book initiates a reassessment of women's education and literacy in the period. As indicators of literacy, letters yield physical evidence of rudimentary writing activity and abilities, document 'higher' forms of female literacy, and highlight women's mastery of formal rhetorical and epistolary conventions. The book also stresses that letters are unparalleled as intimate and immediate records of family relationships, and as media for personal and self-reflective forms of female expression. Read as documents that inscribe social and gender relations, letters shed light on the complex range of women's personal relationships, as female power and authority fluctuated, negotiated on an individual basis. Furthermore, correspondence highlights the important political roles played by early modern women. Female letter-writers were integral in cultivating and maintaining patronage and kinship networks; they were active as suitors for crown favour, and operated as political intermediaries and patrons in their own right, using letters to elicit influence. Letters thus help to locate differing forms of female power within the family, locality and occasionally on the wider political stage, and offer invaluable primary evidence from which to reconstruct the lives of early modern women.