Social Negotiations in Correspondence between Mothers and Daughters in Tudor and Early Stuart England

Daybell, James

doi:10.1080/09612025.2015.1015325

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“…Early Modern letter-writing was a "social-textual" (Daybell 2015: 503) practice, with its own conventions (e.g. Davis 1967;Whigham 1981;Daybell 2012, Daybell 2015. Social relationships were encoded through address forms, rhetorical tropes, stylistic devices (e.g.…”

Section: The Tudor Familymentioning

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‘The vsuall speach of the Court’? Investigating language change in the Tudor family network (1544–1556)

Evans

2015

Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics

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This paper considers how micro-level analysis can enrich our understanding of macro-level processes of language change, using a case study of the Tudors. It explores how language use in the Tudor family network relates to the role of the Court in the supralocalisation of innovative forms during the sixteenth century. Using an original corpus of correspondence and other autograph writings, I conduct a comparative analysis of the language of Elizabeth Tudor with her siblings, parents and caregivers. The findings suggest that Elizabeth's siblings, Mary I and Edward VI, were progressive in changes localised at the Court, but that Elizabeth's caregivers and peripheral kin may have influenced Elizabeth's uptake of non-Court-based changes. Using Network Strength Scores to represent the social experiences of Elizabeth and her nearest kin, it appears that Elizabeth's changing position within the Court network, from a peripheral to more central member, may have played a part in the Court's catalyst effect for the supralocalisation of innovative forms, and the emergence of an overtly prestigious "norm" in Early Modern English.

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Section: The Tudor Familymentioning

confidence: 99%

‘The vsuall speach of the Court’? Investigating language change in the Tudor family network (1544–1556)

Evans

2015

Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics

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“…They argue that female reproduction was not ‘shrouded in secrecy’ for husbands and male kin, but something such men engaged with, cared about, and helped with, creating a more positive and collaborative picture of husband and wife relations. Daybell examines the relationship between mothers and daughters through a methodologically instructive reading of one hundred surviving letters from the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, and finds that this was a particularly multi‐faceted relationship marked by complexities and contradictions, involving obedience, duty, sentiment, conflict, anger, and changes across the life cycle. Wiebracht also contributes to the literature on the history of the family in an article on first‐cousin marriage that shows that while Crown and Church came to endorse the practice from the sixteenth century, the population at large still regarded it as sinful and unacceptable before the eighteenth—a reminder that legal and theological frameworks were not always in line with popular practices on matters of family relations and formation.…”

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