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Politics And Culture At The Jacobean Court: The Role Of Queen Anna Of Denmark, Courtney Erin Thomas
Politics And Culture At The Jacobean Court: The Role Of Queen Anna Of Denmark, Courtney Erin Thomas
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Until recently, analyses of the Jacobean court marginalized the important role played by James I and VI’s queen consort, Anna of Denmark. While historians and literary critics now acknowledge that Anna was a key player in patronage networks and artistic circles at the time, the extent of her political involvement remains largely unexplored in favor of portraying her solely as a cultural figure. This essay seeks to examine the connections between Anna’s cultural and political activities and suggests that, by viewing Anna’s involvements thorough a dichotomous lens as being either political or cultural, a truly textured and nuanced understanding of …
Review Essay: Harris, Jonathan Gil. Foreign Bodies And The Body Politic: Discourses Of Social Pathology In Early Modern England, Julian Yates
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Harris, Jonathan Gil. Foreign Bodies and the Body Politic: Discourses of Social Pathology in Early Modern England. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1998. xi + 197 pp. $64.95. ISBN 0-521-59405-7.
Review Essay: Frantzen, Allen J. And John D. Niles, Eds. Anglo-Saxonism And The Construction Of Social Identity, Peter Richardson
Review Essay: Frantzen, Allen J. And John D. Niles, Eds. Anglo-Saxonism And The Construction Of Social Identity, Peter Richardson
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Frantzen, Allen J., and John D. Niles, eds. Anglo-Saxonism and the Construction of Social Identity. University Press of Florida, Gainesville, 1997. 242 pp., illustrations. $49.95.