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Tudor Court Culture
Appropriately, this collection of essays on the Tudor court came out of a conference held at Hampton Court in 2004. Betteridge (literature and drama, Oxford Brookes University) and Riehl (English, Auburn University) both edit and contribute to the work. The essays concentrate on the courts of Henry VIII and his daughter, Elizabeth I. The first essays investigate the influence of Humanist philosophers on the tone of the court and their mixed success at educating royal children. The ideal of courtly life and its reality are contrasted in literature designed to be read or staged at court seen against the actual behavior of courtiers. The influence of the court throughout the land is the subject of essays on the peregrinations of Elizabeth and the ways in which aristocratic women modeled their courts on hers. Authors look at the changes in the court over time and how its power waned somewhat by the end of the sixteenth century. The case of Walter Raleigh and his quest for financial patronage closes this study. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
211 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2010
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December 8, 2024
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A collection of essays on how the court actually functioned under the Tudor monarchs, apparently papers from a conference in 2004. The two editors and the other six contributors are all English literature scholars, and I must say I find it interesting that I’m getting quite a lot of value from the literature end of analysis of the Tudor period. The first three essays are about Henry VIII and humanism as deployed at court; the other five are about Elizabeth I, and the standout for me was Peter Sillitoe’s piece on the royal progresses, both their limitations and their achievements in terms of projecting royal power. But there is lots of other good stuff to chew on. No mention of Ireland though.
A collection of essays on how the court actually functioned under the Tudor monarchs, apparently papers from a conference in 2004. The two editors and the other six contributors are all English literature scholars, and I must say I find it interesting that I’m getting quite a lot of value from the literature end of analysis of the Tudor period. The first three essays are about Henry VIII and humanism as deployed at court; the other five are about Elizabeth I, and the standout for me was Peter Sillitoe’s piece on the royal progresses, both their limitations and their achievements in terms of projecting royal power. But there is lots of other good stuff to chew on. No mention of Ireland though.
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