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This book recasts one of the most well-studied and
popularly-beloved eras in history: the tumultuous span from the
1485 accession of Henry VII to the 1603 death of Elizabeth I.
Though many have gravitated toward this period for its high drama
and national importance, the book offers a new narrative by
focusing on another facet of the British past that has exercised an
equally powerful grip on audiences: imperialism. It argues that the
sixteenth century was pivotal to the making of both Britain and the
British Empire. Unearthing over a century of theorizing about and
probing into the world beyond England's borders, Tudor Empire shows
that foreign enterprise at once mirrored, responded to, and
provoked domestic politics and culture, while decisively shaping
the Atlantic World. Demonstrating that territorial expansion abroad
and national consolidation and identity formation at home were
concurrent, intertwined, and mutually reinforcing, the author
examines some of the earliest ventures undertaken by the crown and
its subjects in France, Scotland, Ireland, and the Americas. Tudor
Empire is a thought-provoking, essential read for those interested
in the Tudors and the British Empire that they helped create.
This book explores (mis)representations of two female claimants to
the Tudor throne, Lady Jane Grey and Mary I of England. It places
Jane's attempted accession and Mary I's successful accession and
reign in comparative perspective, and illustrates how the two are
fundamentally linked to one another, and to broader questions of
female kingship, precedent, and legitimacy. Through ten original
essays, this book considers the nature and meaning of mid-Tudor
queenship as it took shape, functioned, and was construed in the
sixteenth century as well as its memory down to the twenty-first,
in literary, musical, artistic, theatrical, and other cultural
forms. Offering unique comparative insights into Jane and Mary,
this volume is a key resource for researchers and students
interested in the Tudor period, queenship, and historical memory.
This book-along with its companion volume Mary I in Writing:
Letters, Literature, and Representations-centers on representations
of Queen Mary I in writing, broadly construed, and the process of
writing that queen into literature and other textual sources. It
spans an equally wide chronological and geographical scope,
accounting for the years prior to her accession in July 1553
through the centuries that followed her death in November 1558 and
for her reach across England, and into Ireland, Spain, Italy,
Russia, and Africa. Its intent is to foreground words and
language-written, spoken, and acted out-and, by extension, to draw
out matters of and conversations about rhetoric, imagery,
methodology, source base, genre, narrative, form, and more. Taken
together, these volumes find in England's first crowned queen
regnant an incomparable opportunity to ask new questions and seek
new answers that deepen our understanding of queenship, the early
modern era, and modern popular culture.
This book-along with its companion volume Writing Mary I: History,
Historiography, and Fiction-centers on representations of Queen
Mary I in writing, broadly construed, and the process of writing
that queen into literature and other textual sources. It spans an
equally wide chronological and geographical scope, accounting for
the years prior to her accession in July 1553 through the centuries
that followed her death in November 1558 and for her reach across
England, and into Ireland, Spain, Italy, Russia, and Africa. Its
intent is to foreground words and language-written, spoken, and
acted out-and, by extension, to draw out matters of and
conversations about rhetoric, imagery, methodology, source base,
genre, narrative, form, and more. Taken together, these two volumes
find in England's first crowned queen regnant an incomparable
opportunity to ask new questions and seek new answers that deepen
our understanding of queenship, the early modern era, and modern
popular culture.
This book—along with its companion volume Mary I in Writing:
Letters, Literature, and Representations—centers on
representations of Queen Mary I in writing, broadly construed, and
the process of writing that queen into literature and other textual
sources. It spans an equally wide chronological and geographical
scope, accounting for the years prior to her accession in July 1553
through the centuries that followed her death in November 1558 and
for her reach across England, and into Ireland, Spain, Italy,
Russia, and Africa. Its intent is to foreground words and
language—written, spoken, and acted out—and, by extension, to
draw out matters of and conversations about rhetoric, imagery,
methodology, source base, genre, narrative, form, and more. Taken
together, these volumes find in England’s first crowned queen
regnant an incomparable opportunity to ask new questions and seek
new answers that deepen our understanding of queenship, the early
modern era, and modern popular culture.
This book—along with its companion volume Writing Mary I:
History, Historiography, and Fiction—centers on representations
of Queen Mary I in writing, broadly construed, and the process of
writing that queen into literature and other textual sources. It
spans an equally wide chronological and geographical scope,
accounting for the years prior to her accession in July 1553
through the centuries that followed her death in November 1558 and
for her reach across England, and into Ireland, Spain, Italy,
Russia, and Africa. Its intent is to foreground words and
language—written, spoken, and acted out—and, by extension, to
draw out matters of and conversations about rhetoric, imagery,
methodology, source base, genre, narrative, form, and more. Taken
together, these two volumes find in England’s first crowned queen
regnant an incomparable opportunity to ask new questions and seek
new answers that deepen our understanding of queenship, the early
modern era, and modern popular culture.
This book recasts one of the most well-studied and
popularly-beloved eras in history: the tumultuous span from the
1485 accession of Henry VII to the 1603 death of Elizabeth I.
Though many have gravitated toward this period for its high drama
and national importance, the book offers a new narrative by
focusing on another facet of the British past that has exercised an
equally powerful grip on audiences: imperialism. It argues that the
sixteenth century was pivotal to the making of both Britain and the
British Empire. Unearthing over a century of theorizing about and
probing into the world beyond England's borders, Tudor Empire shows
that foreign enterprise at once mirrored, responded to, and
provoked domestic politics and culture, while decisively shaping
the Atlantic World. Demonstrating that territorial expansion abroad
and national consolidation and identity formation at home were
concurrent, intertwined, and mutually reinforcing, the author
examines some of the earliest ventures undertaken by the crown and
its subjects in France, Scotland, Ireland, and the Americas. Tudor
Empire is a thought-provoking, essential read for those interested
in the Tudors and the British Empire that they helped create.
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