THE POLITICAL THOUGHT OF ROBERT PERSONS'S <i>CONFERENCE</i> IN CONTINENTAL CONTEXT

Tutino, Stefania

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“…However, once the book came under fire from fellow Catholics, both before and after publication, he prepared a Latin translation for the Father General Acquaviva and the Pope, which cut almost all of this theory and concentrated on the genealogical evidence. Commentators such as Peter Holmes (1980) and Stefania Tutino (2009) have explained this alteration as a response to the changed conditions in France following Henri's conversion and to the 32 James replied before 1 May 1602 (Akrigg 1984:188). dynamics of the papal court.…”

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2015

Sederi

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A couple of pertinent good books and more than two score articles and book chapters, together with his earnest dedication to his students, constitute Francisco Javier's durable legacy to scholarship and to the promotion of English language and literature in Spain: "As well a well-wrought urn becomes / The greatest ashes, as half-acre tombs."He was wise to retire early to cope with the "slings and arrows of outrageous fortune" that sooner or later overcome us all. He had found his own Mediterranean hortus conclusus, where he led a life decidedly to be wished. Death has surprised him there too untimely, but, as I believe, happy and reconciled. This humble offering is written to honour his name and his personality in this issue of the SEDERI Yearbook. May the journal last for centuries and keep a well-deserved remembrance of SEDERI's founding member!

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Kingship by Descent or Kingship by Election? The Contested Title of James VI and I

Kanemura¹

2013

J. Br. Stud.

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Throughout the reign of Elizabeth I, a steady stream of tracts appeared in English print to vindicate the succession of the most prominent contenders, Mary and James Stuart of Scotland. This article offers a comprehensive account of the polemical battle between the supporters and opponents of the Stuarts, and further identifies various theories of English kingship, most notably the theory of corporate kingship, developed by the Stuart polemicists to defend the Scottish succession. James's accession to the English throne in March 1603 marked the protracted end of the debate over the succession. The article concludes by suggesting that, while powerfully renouncing the opposition to his succession, over the course of his attempt to unify his two kingdoms, James and his supporters ultimately departed from the polemic of corporate kingship, for a more assertive language of kingship by natural and divine law.

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Robert Persons, Popular Sovereignty, and the Late Elizabethan Succession Debate

Innes¹

2018

Hist. J.

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This article explores how, and why, Robert Persons's A conference about the next succession to the crowne of Ingland (1594) scandalized late Elizabethan England. By invoking the spectres of popular sovereignty and political resistance, Persons, as is well known, threatened to disrupt the succession of James VI of Scotland to Elizabeth I's throne. In doing so, however, he also undermined the very notion that the English crown passed by succession at all. After discussing Persons's political thought, this article examines the responses to it by such writers as John Hayward, Henry Constable, Peter Wentworth, and James VI himself. Their turn towards natural law as a basis for James's title was, it is argued, a direct consequence of the Conference’s argument. As well as shining long-overdue light on Hayward's political thought, the article thus argues that the reception of Persons's Conference was a significant influence on the development of English political thought in the early seventeenth century.

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THE POLITICAL THOUGHT OF ROBERT PERSONS'S CONFERENCE IN CONTINENTAL CONTEXT

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Kingship by Descent or Kingship by Election? The Contested Title of James VI and I

Robert Persons, Popular Sovereignty, and the Late Elizabethan Succession Debate

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