The Quest for a King: Gender, Marriage, and Succession in Elizabethan England

McLaren, Anne

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“…While initially the Privy Council could not agree on anyone to marry Elizabeth, she eventually announced that she would not marry because she was devoted to England. 17 Elizabeth knew that she would have to give up control of her kingdom once she married. She was pressured by Parliament to marry, but wrote numerous speeches to Parliament, effectively avoiding the question of her marriage.…”

Section: Elizabeth's Marriagementioning

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Mary and Elizabeth Tudor: Embracing and Manipulating Gender Expectations

Zetina¹

2015

The Undergraduate Historical Journal at UC Merced

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Section: Elizabeth's Marriagementioning

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Mary and Elizabeth Tudor: Embracing and Manipulating Gender Expectations

Zetina¹

2015

The Undergraduate Historical Journal at UC Merced

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“…She states that in the aftermath of the war, "Combined with the global economic downturn of 1973, inflation rates in the South began to climb precipitously, urban unemployment reached 40 percent of the workforce, and there were severe food shortages." 17 Young conveys that the United States government contributed a considerable amount of resources to stimulate the South Vietnamese economy. However, she points out that massive attempts to develop the region generated little return in the immediate decades following.…”

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“…For their larger meals, Italians mainly bought more of the foods which had been in short supply and signs of social status in previous decades, rather than alter their meals to incorporate American tastes in the form of canned goods and greater meat consumption. 17 Italian consumption habits were essentially driven by "nostalgia for the simple foods of Italy's past" which "grew interest in the nation's regional heritage" of cuisine. 18 Thus, the forced nationalism of the fascist era transformed into a nationalism based on food and Italian culture; this in turn contributed to the relative resistance of Italy to Americanization.…”

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Malsbury¹

2015

The Undergraduate Historical Journal at UC Merced

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“…With equal insight she emphasizes that continental reformers rejected Goodman and Knox as authorities on female rule and that both represented the narrow views of a few exiled, clerical extremists. 57 Amanda Shepherd draws attention to nobles who were strong supporters of the hereditary principle. Some advocated the need for aristocratic women to be educated and even to take a public role to preserve family property.…”

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A Reformation Survivor: the Case of Archbishop Nicholas Heath, Lord Chancellor of England, and the Rule of Women

Berlatsky

2003

The Historian

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SIXTEENTH-CENTURY England was a patriarchal hierarchy ruled for more than half a century by a minor and two women. It was also a society where a man of humble birth might rise to become simultaneously archbishop of York and lord chancellor. Such defiance of the natural order conjures up the image of Thomas Wolsey. The focus of this paper is also an archbishop of York and lord chancellor, but one who remains virtually anonymous. After a career marked by accommodation to royal authority, but consistent adherence to Catholic doctrine, Nicholas Heath, speaking to the House of Lords, declared Elizabeth I unfit to serve as head of the church because of her gender. Despite his temerity, Heath was allowed a quiet retirement and died peacefully on his own estate on good terms with the queen he had tried to bar from ecclesiastical office. A survivor of the complex twists of the English reformations, Heath provides an excellent example of the phenomenon, noted by Jonathan Wright, by which martyrs, exiles, and recusants receive more attention than conformists, temporizers, and survivors. 1 At the time Nicholas Heath rose to speak in Parliament in the spring of 1559, the deaths of Queen Mary and Archbishop of Canterbury Reginald Pole had left him the leading Catholic cleric in the realm. Throughout the Tudor era, Heath's own theology had undergone testing, but he never wavered in his commitment to traditional Catholic beliefs. Heath clung to the real presence of the traditional Mass as the central mystery of the Christian faith. 2 Sympathetic to Henry VIII as head of the church, and to modest reforms, but not to Protestant innovations, Joel Berlatsky is a professor of history at Wilkes University.Heath consistently accepted constituted political authority. In the reign of Edward VI, Heath balked at moves toward a Protestant Church of England and as a result lost his ecclesiastical and civil offices. The death of Edward VI saw the Catholic Queen Mary elevate Heath to high positions in church and state, leaving him the standard bearer for the old faith when Elizabeth ascended the throne. It was in this capacity that, speaking for all Catholics and patriarchal Protestants, he addressed the House of Lords in 1559. Examining his speech in the context of his career and societal attitudes toward female governance, and recognizing that while Heath questioned Elizabeth's right to govern the English church, he never questioned her right to govern the English state, illustrates the challenges of and possibilities for surviving the English reformations of the sixteenth century.The forceful oration Heath delivered represented Catholic rejection of female and lay supremacy in religious matters. 3 Though several different versions of the speech exist, his arguments are not in doubt. Speaking before a House of Lords that sympathized with his position, Heath stated what he saw as the repercussions of "forsaking the sea of Rome." Included were the rejection of all general councils, the exclusion of canon and ecclesiastical laws, alienation f...

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The Quest for a King: Gender, Marriage, and Succession in Elizabethan England

Cited by 11 publications

References 22 publications

Mary and Elizabeth Tudor: Embracing and Manipulating Gender Expectations

Mary and Elizabeth Tudor: Embracing and Manipulating Gender Expectations

Volume 2,no. 2 Spring 2015

A Reformation Survivor: the Case of Archbishop Nicholas Heath, Lord Chancellor of England, and the Rule of Women

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