The British Pharaoh
James I and VI and internationalist religious writing at the wedding of Friedrich V and Elizabeth Stuart
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11493100 |
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| Authors | Kevin Chovanec (0009-0005-8869-9083, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 391-409 |
| Publication date | 2015-10-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Seventeenth Century (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0268-117X • E-ISSN: 2050-4616 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0268117x.2015.1101011 |
| OpenAlex | W2256461440 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 10 |
The marriage of Elizabeth Stuart and Friedrich V, Prince Palatine, has recently been described as “the pinnacle of Protestant European festival,” a transnational, transcultural event celebrated throughout Protestant Europe. Politically, it marked a high point of internationalist Protestant sentiment in England. In this article, I examine three sermons preached for the occasion, by the court preacher Andrew Willet, the Wiltshire parson George Webbe, and Friedrich’s court chaplain, Abraham Scultetus. All three use the wedding to advocate an internationalist agenda and subtly critique the Church of England. This is done, in part, through a shared typological understanding of the event based on Psalm 45, read by early moderns as a song on the marriage of Solomon and Pharaoh’s daughter, which aligns James with an idolatrous Pharaoh. Their interpretation of the marriage implicitly anticipates a move toward the pure biblical worship practiced by the continental reformed churches, and shifts the focus of Pan-Protestant hopes from London to Heidelberg
Art history · George (robot · Interpretation (philosophy · Protestantism · Theology · Worship · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Classics · Historical Influence and Diplomacy · History · Philosophy · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity · Religious studies · Religious Studies
| Highly cited | No |
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