James I and fictional authority at the Palatine wedding celebrations
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11500125 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kevin Curran (0000-0001-6500-9864, McGill University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 51-67 |
| Publication date | 2006-02-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Renaissance Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0269-1213 • E-ISSN: 1477-4658 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1477-4658.2006.00113.x |
| OpenAlex | W1999325329 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 1 |
The 1613 marriage of James I's daughter, Elizabeth, to Frederick the Elector Palatine linked two of Europe's strongest Protestant nations. The union presented the possibility of tilting the balance of power away from the Catholic Habsburgs and allowed fervent Protestants in England to imagine themselves taking a leading role in this endeavour. The present essay is concerned with the festivities, public and private, mounted in London to celebrate this wedding. Focusing on textual accounts of the civic entertainments and Thomas Campion's wedding‐night masque, the essay shows how the Palatine marriage problematised the vision of Jacobean nationhood promulgated by the King. While James was envisioning the marriage as one step in a larger process of religious reconciliation, many were using the occasion to voice hopes for a return to a more militant cultural ethos. By highlighting this rift in political perception, this essay departs from received readings of the nuptials as an ideologically uniform event. It draws attention instead to disparities in the panegyrical rhetoric used at the wedding and explores the kinds of representational strategies that were deployed to conceal these disparities in an attempt to recast the marriage as an exclusively monarchical event
Ethos · Ideology · Militant · Monarchy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Protestantism · Rhetoric · Sociology · Theology · Gender Studies · Historical Art and Culture Studies · Historical Influence and Diplomacy · History · Law · Philosophy · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity · Religious studies · Religious Studies
| Citations per year | 0.09 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2015 - 2015 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |