Public Worship and Political Participation in Elizabethan England

Mears, Natalie

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“…22 From another angle, art historians have studied the artistic representation of peace in the early modern age. 23 This volume aspires to approach the Peace of Utrecht from an interdiscplinary (literary cultural, and diplomatic) perspective, by considering it as a performative event.…”

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“…Despite de Salles's apparent harshness, the Sabaudian authorities also offered strong incentives to join the duke's service: in October 1703, Victor Amadeus offered exemption from the taille and capitation for the duration of the war and three years after to all men who enrolled in his service.26 Given these incentives, it is telling that only thirty or so bourgeois volunteered to join de Salles at this time.27 And the passivity of the population meant that they posed no threat to the relatively small French force which took Chambéry: as Tessé noted, de Salles had posted ordonnances exhorting people to 'smash everything to smithereens,' something they could do quite easily given that in 23 Chambéry there were eighteen thousand people who could 'take by the throat' the small number of French troops stationed there. 28 A further explanation for the distinct lack of hostility toward the French is that, on a day-to-day level, the French occupations of Savoy did not entail very much visible change.…”

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“…The great houses have become powerful and 'aspired to a higher step of state and dignity' in search of which they 'waged war against one another or against the kings' . 23 Conquest seems typical of the French, as Valckenier described how 'afterwards these Franks under Clodoveus (Clovius) not only submitted the Romans, Goths and Burgundians in the whole of Gaul, but on top of that also won against the Alemans . .…”

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“…Door Yver Bloeid de Kunst, De roemruchtige zegepraal, 38. 27 Ibid.,[22][23][32][33] response towards the facts of war.29 Both these auditory intermezzos and the silent performances show that early modern theatre was able to break through the detached perspective of the political commentator and that it could challenge the audience to be all eyes and ears and cast a closer look at the spectacle, which also aimed at representing the sensual reality of war itself.…”

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Performances of Peace: Utrecht 1713

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This publication has been typeset in the multilingual "Brill" typeface. With over 5,100 characters covering Latin, IPA, Greek, and Cyrillic, this typeface is especially suitable for use in the humanities. For more information, please see www.brill.com/brill-typeface.isbn 978-9004-30477-2 (hardback) isbn 978-9004-30478-9 (e-book) Copyright 2015 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands. Koninklijke Brill NV incorporates the imprints Brill, Brill Hes & De Graaf, Brill Nijhoff, Brill Rodopi and Hotei Publishing. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission from the publisher. Authorization to photocopy items for internal or personal use is granted by Koninklijke Brill NV provided that the appropriate fees are paid directly to The Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Suite 910, Danvers, MA 01923, USA. Fees are subject to change. This book is printed on acid-free paper. This is an open access title distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported (CC-BY-NC 3.0) License, which permits any non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited. (1994)(1995)(1996)(1997)(1998)(1999)(2000)(2001)(2002)(2003)(2004)(2005)(2006)(2007)(2008)(2009)(2010)(2011). He is at present president of the Max Weber Foundation. He has xii notes on contributors worked on, written and edited about 80 books on international relations in early modern times, persons and structures of the "Sattelzeit" and the idea of Europe in modern times. ContentsSuzan van Dijk is a specialist in French literature and senior researcher at the Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands (KNAW Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences). She is particularly interested in women's authorship (eighteenth and nineteenth century), the reception of women's writing and international connections between women authors. In this field she initiated and chaired a series of international projects, funded by NWO, COST, CLARIN-NL and HERA.Julie Farguson has recently completed her doctoral thesis at the University of Oxford and is currently a non-stipendiary lecturer at Hertford College, Oxford. Her thesis looks afresh at the visual presentational strategies employed by monarchs, consorts and their advisors in the wake of the Glorious Revolution (1689-1714). Henriette Goldwyn is a specialist of Early Modern Literature and Culture in the department of French at New York University, and the director of New York University in Paris. She is one of the cofounders of the SIEFAR (Société Internationale pour l'Étude des Femmes de l' Ancien Régime). Her research and publications focus on narrative fiction in the sevententh century, early modern women writers, polemical journalism and religious discourse. She has written extensively on women writers,...

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“…It demonstrates the importance of 'providential politics' in the early-modern period: a widespread belief, based on dominant ideas of causation (divine providence), that national politics was about managing subjects' sins, beliefs, and practices and that exercises that sought to elicit divine assistance were essential to political success. 120 It also challenges the emphasis, since the 1990s, on the representation and articulation of power, exemplified by works like Kevin Sharpe's trilogy. 121 By reconceiving parliamentary fasts as contemporaries did -as religious exercises -it shifts their principal 'political' purposes, at least before 1642, away from 'propaganda' and towards being 'tools' through which to seek divine assistance.…”

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The Culture of Fasting in Early Stuart Parliaments^*

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Parliamentary History

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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, with the aim of making parliamentary sessions more productive and successful, and to provide more direct resolution to the nation's problems by invoking divine intervention. Fast motions commanded widespread support across parliament because they were rooted in the dominant theory of causation – divine providence – and reflected the gradual conventionalisation of fasting in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. However, this consensus seemed to wane in the early 1640s as divisions between Charles I and some of his most vocal MPs widened, while the fast day observed on 17 November 1640 was used by some MPs to express their opposition to Charles's religious policy, especially regarding the siting of the communion table/altar and the position from where the service was to be read. The article concludes by reflecting on how a study of parliamentary fasting can contribute to wider debates on commensality and abstinence.

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