The Tragic Histories of Mary Queen of Scots, 1560-1690

Staines, John D.

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“…69 Staines suggests Mary's selfidentification with Catholic martyrs was motivated primarily by desire for revenge upon her cousin. 70 By calling into question Elizabeth's claims of benevolence, and by assuming the English Queen's right to name an heir, Mary Stuart could imply that Elizabeth, as the bastard daughter of Anne Boleyn and also a usurper of Papal authority in England, lacked endorsement from God's sole infallible earthly representative the Pope. Exiled Jesuit John Wilson compared the late Scottish Queen to the Virgin Mary because, despite being robbed of her earthly dignity, Mary Stuart remained pious and patient in the hope her martyrdom would bring divine intervention to save her son James from heresy.…”

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Catholic, Anglican, and Puritan Representations of Royal Martyrs

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2017

Royal Studies Journal

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Catholic, Anglican, and Puritan Representations of Royal Martyrs

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2017

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“…12 Meanwhile, Blackwood's account of Mary, Queen of Scots has received some attention from a literary perspective. 13 This present article will build on these studies but will highlight Blackwood's own distinctive contribution to political and religious thoughts, shedding new light on broader debates concerning natural law, religion, and sovereignty in early modern political thought.…”

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Sovereignty beyond natural law: Adam Blackwood’s Catholic royalism

Mortimer

2021

History of European Ideas

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The political works of Adam Blackwood (1539-1613) offer a powerful defence of absolute monarchy, and one which explicitly sets political power within a religious framework. Critiquing the resistance theories of his contemporaries, Blackwood was sceptical about the political value of natural law and of any appeal to popular sovereignty, at least in contemporary Europe. Blackwood was deeply troubled by the way Christianity was being used to justify resistance, often in Protestant texts that aligned Christianity and natural law, and he insisted that true Christianity taught obedience. Though he has often been likened to his contemporary Jean Bodin, a closer examination of Blackwood's writing reveals significant differences, especially on the linked issues of natural law, the value of historical argument, and religion. For Blackwood, sovereign power in general had to be underpinned by religion, the one constant in a world of diverse and mutable social practices, and its particular, local manifestation had to be understood historically, as the product of conquest and force. Aware of the potential tensions between Catholic Christianity and monarchical authority, Blackwood also developed a distinctive piety in an attempt to bolster the alliance he advocated between religious and political authority.

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“…Central to Maddie's "everywoman" 36 persona is her ability to give her mind "freely" because she is beholden to no one. Although she refers to herself as "A wife with sempill lyfe," there is no indication that she has a husband or family: the primary definition of a wife in early modern Scotland was "a woman."…”

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Contesting Reformation: Truth-Telling, the Female Voice, and the Gendering of Political Polemic in Early Modern Scotland

Stewart¹

2021

Huntington Library Quarterly

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kale, n, " sense 3. The term does not appear to have possessed overtly sexual connotations, although Maidment thought it a byword for a scold, on the basis of a comment by a later seventeenth-century poet, William Cleland; Scotish Pasquils, ed. Maidment, 79. Scolding political polemic in early modern scotland • 743This essay originated as a paper given at the North American Conference on British Studies in Denver, Colorado, in 2017. Thanks to David Coast and Tom Cogswell, and especially Ann Hughes, Noah Millstone, and Rachel Weil, for helpful conversations about this material. Later versions were presented at the British History in the Seventeenth Century seminar at the Institute for Historical Research, the History seminar at the University of Nottingham, the Early Modern Britain seminar at the University of Oxford, and at Vanderbilt, Tennessee. The author particularly wishes to thank Amy Blakeway, Jamie Reid-Baxter, and Susan Wiseman for commenting on early drafts, and Peter Lake for his helpful suggestions. The essay also benefited from the constructive criticism of two anonymous referees.

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The Tragic Histories of Mary Queen of Scots, 1560-1690

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Catholic, Anglican, and Puritan Representations of Royal Martyrs

Catholic, Anglican, and Puritan Representations of Royal Martyrs

Sovereignty beyond natural law: Adam Blackwood’s Catholic royalism

Contesting Reformation: Truth-Telling, the Female Voice, and the Gendering of Political Polemic in Early Modern Scotland

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