Natalie Mears
Biographic Data
| ID | 991502 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Natalie Mears |
| GIVEN NAMES | Natalie |
| FAMILY NAME | Mears |
| SIGNATURE | MEARS N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Durham University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5442-834X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Creation of State Anniversaries: James VI and I and the Politics of Thanksgiving
Religious anniversaries ordered by the state—by the monarch, royal council or parliament—were observed in England and Ireland from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. These have been studied chiefly as occasions for special sermons and popular festivities, the expression of English or Irish Protestant national identity, or the pursuit of party controversies. But examination of both the original establishment of state anniversaries by Jam…
Memorials of Queen Elizabeth I in early Stuart London
At least thirty–eight memorials were erected to Elizabeth I in London parish churches between c. 1606 and c.1633. Though they have been interpreted as critiques of Jacobean foreign policy, this conclusion is not fully supported by extant evidence regarding when the memorials were commissioned, the parishes in which they were erected, and the inscriptions which they contained. This article suggests that, as commentaries on foreign policy, the memo…
The Culture of Fasting in Early Stuart Parliaments
The fasts, proposed and observed by parliament in the first half of the 17th century, have always been defined as opportunities for propaganda. This article focuses, instead, on their cultural and religious meanings: why MPs believed that the act of fasting itself was important and what they hoped it would achieve. It argues that fasts were proposed for two reasons: to forge unity between parliament and the king at a time of growing division, wit…
The ‘Holy Days’ of Queen Elizabeth I
The annual celebrations of the accession day and birthday of Queen Elizabeth I are a familiar subject in studies of her reign, yet their beginnings, status and purpose have remained uncertain. By examining revisions of the calendar of the Church of England published in the Book of Common Prayer from early in the reign, this article establishes the dates of the first recognition of these public anniversaries. It questions the weight that has been …
James I and Gunpowder Treason Day
The assumed source of the annual early modern English commemoration of Gunpowder treason day on 5 November – and its modern legacy, ‘Guy Fawkes day’ or ‘Bonfire night’ – has been an act of parliament in 1606. This article reveals the existence of earlier orders, explains how these orders alter understandings of the origin and initial purposes of the anniversary, and provides edited transcriptions of their texts. The first order revises the accept…
The Oxford Handbook of the Age of Shakespeare
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Governing by Virtue: Lord Burghley and the Management of Elizabethan England, by Norman Jones
Norman Jones’s book is a reflective response to the post-Eltonian historiography of the Tudor state from a historian who has played an important role in shaping that response. As Jones makes clear in the introduction, the central question of the book is how a composite state was able to govern its diverse constituent parts with little bureaucracy and no army. Arguing that much of the recent literature, by scholars such as Hindle, Braddick and Wal…
Bad Queen Bess? Libels, Secret Histories, and the Politics of Publicity in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth I, by Peter Lake
Peter Lake has carved out a position as one of the most important historians of Elizabethan politics and religion of the modern era, with interests stretching from high court politics to the so-called ‘public sphere’, from Puritans to Catholics, political thought to popular religion, political treatises to Shakespeare, and much more beyond. Many of these are the subject of critical analysis in his present book, an expanded version of his Ford Lec…
Worship and the Parish Church in Early Modern Britain
Contents: Introduction: worship and the parish church, Natalie Mears and Alec Ryrie Teaching in praying words? Worship and theology in the early modern English parish, Hannah Cleugh Special nationwide worship and the Book of Common Prayer in England, Wales and Ireland, 1533-1642, Natalie Mears The Elizabethan Primers: symptoms of an ambiguous settlement or devotional weaning?, Bryan D. Spinks The fall and rise of fasting in the British Reformatio…
Elizabeth I’s Foreign Correspondence: Letters, Rhetoric, and Politics, ed. Carlo M. Bajetta, Guillaume Coatalen and Jonathan Gibson
The latest addition to the ‘Queenship and Power’ series is an unusual volume—part edition, part collection of essays. Arising from Carlo Bajetta’s major research project on Elizabeth’s foreign correspondence, and co-edited by him with Guillaume Coatalen and Jonathan Gibson, it combines the scholarly editing of small, discrete collections of some of the queen’s letters alongside detailed analysis of them, surveys of other collections and critical …
John Nichols’s The Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth I: A New Edition of the Early Modern Sources, ed. Elizabeth Goldring, Faith Eales, Elizabeth Clarke and Jayne Elisabeth Archer
The second edition of John Nichols’s The Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth I, published in three volumes in 1823, has been an indispensable source for historians, literary scholars and other early modernists for decades. This is despite its very obvious flaws, including the omission of a significant number of foreign-language texts that appeared in the considerably less well-known first edition (3, or possibly 4, volumes, 1788–…
The Council
Rhetoric, Politics, and Popularity in Pre-Revolutionary England
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Mary I: England’s Catholic Queen, by John Edwards
Journal Article Mary I: England’s Catholic Queen, by John Edwards Get access Mary I: England’s Catholic Queen, by John Edwards(New Haven: Yale U.P., 2011; pp. xvii + 387. £25). Natalie Mears Natalie Mears University of Durham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 128, Issue 531, April 2013, Pages 423–425, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cet037 Published: 25 March 2013
Public Worship and Political Participation in Elizabethan England
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Goddesses and Queens: The iconography of Elizabeth I
ANNALIESE CONNOLLY & LISA HOPKINS (Eds) Manchester & New York: Manchester University Press, 2007 Pp. xii + 194, £50. ISBN 978 0 7190 7677 0 Pointing to works as diverse as 1066 and All That and the
Women Letter‐Writers in Tudor England ‐ By James Daybell
The Struggle for the Succession in Late Elizabethan England: Politics, Polemics and Cultural Representations Edited by Jean‐Christophe Mayer with a preface by Jenny Wormald
Courts, Courtiers, and Culture in Tudor England
Geoffrey Elton's model of Tudor politics, which emphasized the importance of political institutions and which dominated our understanding of Tudor politics for much of the second half of the twentieth century, has been challenged by a number of historians for over twenty years. They have re-emphasized the importance of social connections and cultural influences and turned attention away from studying the privy council to studying the court. In do…
The Portable Queen: Elizabeth I and the Politics of Ceremony
McLaren, Political Culture in the Reign of Elizabeth I
Love‐making and Diplomacy: Elizabeth I and the Anjou Marriage Negotiations, c .1578–1582
The marriage negotiations between Elizabeth and Francis, duke of Anjou, have provided an important lens for exploring the nature of the Elizabethan polity. Conyers Read argued that Elizabeth deliberately exploited courtship rituals to gain ascendancy over ministers and foreign princes. Wallace MacCaffrey and Susan Doran argued that Elizabeth's commitment to the match was genuine, but that she was prevented from concluding the match because she la…
Counsel, Public Debate, and Queenship: John Stubbs's the Discoverie of a Gaping Gulf , 1579
John Stubbs's controversial pamphlet against Elizabeth's proposed marriage with Francis, duke of Anjou, The discoverie of a gaping gulf (1579), has conventionally been seen – with Edmund Spenser's The shepheardes calendar and Philip Sidney's letter to Elizabeth – as part of a propaganda campaign organized by Leicester and Walsingham to force Elizabeth to reject the marriage. Yet the evidence linking Stubbs with Leicester and Walsingham is thin. T…
The ‘Holy Days’ of Queen Elizabeth I
The annual celebrations of the accession day and birthday of Queen Elizabeth I are a familiar subject in studies of her reign, yet their beginnings, status and purpose have remained uncertain. By examining revisions of the calendar of the Church of England published in the Book of Common Prayer from early in the reign, this article establishes the dates of the first recognition of these public anniversaries. It questions the weight that has been …
Courts, Courtiers, and Culture in Tudor England
Geoffrey Elton's model of Tudor politics, which emphasized the importance of political institutions and which dominated our understanding of Tudor politics for much of the second half of the twentieth century, has been challenged by a number of historians for over twenty years. They have re-emphasized the importance of social connections and cultural influences and turned attention away from studying the privy council to studying the court. In do…
Counsel, Public Debate, and Queenship: John Stubbs's the Discoverie of a Gaping Gulf , 1579
John Stubbs's controversial pamphlet against Elizabeth's proposed marriage with Francis, duke of Anjou, The discoverie of a gaping gulf (1579), has conventionally been seen – with Edmund Spenser's The shepheardes calendar and Philip Sidney's letter to Elizabeth – as part of a propaganda campaign organized by Leicester and Walsingham to force Elizabeth to reject the marriage. Yet the evidence linking Stubbs with Leicester and Walsingham is thin. T…
Public Worship and Political Participation in Elizabethan England
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Love‐making and Diplomacy: Elizabeth I and the Anjou Marriage Negotiations, c .1578–1582
The marriage negotiations between Elizabeth and Francis, duke of Anjou, have provided an important lens for exploring the nature of the Elizabethan polity. Conyers Read argued that Elizabeth deliberately exploited courtship rituals to gain ascendancy over ministers and foreign princes. Wallace MacCaffrey and Susan Doran argued that Elizabeth's commitment to the match was genuine, but that she was prevented from concluding the match because she la…
Memorials of Queen Elizabeth I in early Stuart London
At least thirty–eight memorials were erected to Elizabeth I in London parish churches between c. 1606 and c.1633. Though they have been interpreted as critiques of Jacobean foreign policy, this conclusion is not fully supported by extant evidence regarding when the memorials were commissioned, the parishes in which they were erected, and the inscriptions which they contained. This article suggests that, as commentaries on foreign policy, the memo…
The Culture of Fasting in Early Stuart Parliaments
The fasts, proposed and observed by parliament in the first half of the 17th century, have always been defined as opportunities for propaganda. This article focuses, instead, on their cultural and religious meanings: why MPs believed that the act of fasting itself was important and what they hoped it would achieve. It argues that fasts were proposed for two reasons: to forge unity between parliament and the king at a time of growing division, wit…
The Portable Queen: Elizabeth I and the Politics of Ceremony
McLaren, Political Culture in the Reign of Elizabeth I
Love‐making and Diplomacy: Elizabeth I and the Anjou Marriage Negotiations, c .1578–1582
The marriage negotiations between Elizabeth and Francis, duke of Anjou, have provided an important lens for exploring the nature of the Elizabethan polity. Conyers Read argued that Elizabeth deliberately exploited courtship rituals to gain ascendancy over ministers and foreign princes. Wallace MacCaffrey and Susan Doran argued that Elizabeth's commitment to the match was genuine, but that she was prevented from concluding the match because she la…
Counsel, Public Debate, and Queenship: John Stubbs's the Discoverie of a Gaping Gulf , 1579
John Stubbs's controversial pamphlet against Elizabeth's proposed marriage with Francis, duke of Anjou, The discoverie of a gaping gulf (1579), has conventionally been seen – with Edmund Spenser's The shepheardes calendar and Philip Sidney's letter to Elizabeth – as part of a propaganda campaign organized by Leicester and Walsingham to force Elizabeth to reject the marriage. Yet the evidence linking Stubbs with Leicester and Walsingham is thin. T…
Courts, Courtiers, and Culture in Tudor England
Geoffrey Elton's model of Tudor politics, which emphasized the importance of political institutions and which dominated our understanding of Tudor politics for much of the second half of the twentieth century, has been challenged by a number of historians for over twenty years. They have re-emphasized the importance of social connections and cultural influences and turned attention away from studying the privy council to studying the court. In do…
The Struggle for the Succession in Late Elizabethan England: Politics, Polemics and Cultural Representations Edited by Jean‐Christophe Mayer with a preface by Jenny Wormald
Women Letter‐Writers in Tudor England ‐ By James Daybell
Goddesses and Queens: The iconography of Elizabeth I
ANNALIESE CONNOLLY & LISA HOPKINS (Eds) Manchester & New York: Manchester University Press, 2007 Pp. xii + 194, £50. ISBN 978 0 7190 7677 0 Pointing to works as diverse as 1066 and All That and the
Public Worship and Political Participation in Elizabethan England
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Mary I: England’s Catholic Queen, by John Edwards
Journal Article Mary I: England’s Catholic Queen, by John Edwards Get access Mary I: England’s Catholic Queen, by John Edwards(New Haven: Yale U.P., 2011; pp. xvii + 387. £25). Natalie Mears Natalie Mears University of Durham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 128, Issue 531, April 2013, Pages 423–425, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cet037 Published: 25 March 2013
The Council
Rhetoric, Politics, and Popularity in Pre-Revolutionary England
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
John Nichols’s The Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth I: A New Edition of the Early Modern Sources, ed. Elizabeth Goldring, Faith Eales, Elizabeth Clarke and Jayne Elisabeth Archer
The second edition of John Nichols’s The Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth I, published in three volumes in 1823, has been an indispensable source for historians, literary scholars and other early modernists for decades. This is despite its very obvious flaws, including the omission of a significant number of foreign-language texts that appeared in the considerably less well-known first edition (3, or possibly 4, volumes, 1788–…
Worship and the Parish Church in Early Modern Britain
Contents: Introduction: worship and the parish church, Natalie Mears and Alec Ryrie Teaching in praying words? Worship and theology in the early modern English parish, Hannah Cleugh Special nationwide worship and the Book of Common Prayer in England, Wales and Ireland, 1533-1642, Natalie Mears The Elizabethan Primers: symptoms of an ambiguous settlement or devotional weaning?, Bryan D. Spinks The fall and rise of fasting in the British Reformatio…
Elizabeth I’s Foreign Correspondence: Letters, Rhetoric, and Politics, ed. Carlo M. Bajetta, Guillaume Coatalen and Jonathan Gibson
The latest addition to the ‘Queenship and Power’ series is an unusual volume—part edition, part collection of essays. Arising from Carlo Bajetta’s major research project on Elizabeth’s foreign correspondence, and co-edited by him with Guillaume Coatalen and Jonathan Gibson, it combines the scholarly editing of small, discrete collections of some of the queen’s letters alongside detailed analysis of them, surveys of other collections and critical …
Bad Queen Bess? Libels, Secret Histories, and the Politics of Publicity in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth I, by Peter Lake
Peter Lake has carved out a position as one of the most important historians of Elizabethan politics and religion of the modern era, with interests stretching from high court politics to the so-called ‘public sphere’, from Puritans to Catholics, political thought to popular religion, political treatises to Shakespeare, and much more beyond. Many of these are the subject of critical analysis in his present book, an expanded version of his Ford Lec…
Governing by Virtue: Lord Burghley and the Management of Elizabethan England, by Norman Jones
Norman Jones’s book is a reflective response to the post-Eltonian historiography of the Tudor state from a historian who has played an important role in shaping that response. As Jones makes clear in the introduction, the central question of the book is how a composite state was able to govern its diverse constituent parts with little bureaucracy and no army. Arguing that much of the recent literature, by scholars such as Hindle, Braddick and Wal…
The Oxford Handbook of the Age of Shakespeare
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Culture of Fasting in Early Stuart Parliaments
The fasts, proposed and observed by parliament in the first half of the 17th century, have always been defined as opportunities for propaganda. This article focuses, instead, on their cultural and religious meanings: why MPs believed that the act of fasting itself was important and what they hoped it would achieve. It argues that fasts were proposed for two reasons: to forge unity between parliament and the king at a time of growing division, wit…
The ‘Holy Days’ of Queen Elizabeth I
The annual celebrations of the accession day and birthday of Queen Elizabeth I are a familiar subject in studies of her reign, yet their beginnings, status and purpose have remained uncertain. By examining revisions of the calendar of the Church of England published in the Book of Common Prayer from early in the reign, this article establishes the dates of the first recognition of these public anniversaries. It questions the weight that has been …
James I and Gunpowder Treason Day
The assumed source of the annual early modern English commemoration of Gunpowder treason day on 5 November – and its modern legacy, ‘Guy Fawkes day’ or ‘Bonfire night’ – has been an act of parliament in 1606. This article reveals the existence of earlier orders, explains how these orders alter understandings of the origin and initial purposes of the anniversary, and provides edited transcriptions of their texts. The first order revises the accept…
Memorials of Queen Elizabeth I in early Stuart London
At least thirty–eight memorials were erected to Elizabeth I in London parish churches between c. 1606 and c.1633. Though they have been interpreted as critiques of Jacobean foreign policy, this conclusion is not fully supported by extant evidence regarding when the memorials were commissioned, the parishes in which they were erected, and the inscriptions which they contained. This article suggests that, as commentaries on foreign policy, the memo…
The Creation of State Anniversaries: James VI and I and the Politics of Thanksgiving
Religious anniversaries ordered by the state—by the monarch, royal council or parliament—were observed in England and Ireland from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. These have been studied chiefly as occasions for special sermons and popular festivities, the expression of English or Irish Protestant national identity, or the pursuit of party controversies. But examination of both the original establishment of state anniversaries by Jam…
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