{"title":"Biggs, St Stephen’s College, Westminster: A Royal Chapel and English Kingship, 1348–1548 (Boydell Press, 2020)","authors":"S. Lane","doi":"10.21039/RSJ.303","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21039/RSJ.303","url":null,"abstract":"Review of Elizabeth Biggs, St Stephen’s College, Westminster: A Royal Chapel and English Kingship, 1348–1548 (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2020).","PeriodicalId":36175,"journal":{"name":"Royal Studies Journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41620865","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"King and Spencer (eds.), Edward I: New Interpretations (York Medieval Press, 2020)","authors":"Ben Wild","doi":"10.21039/RSJ.264","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21039/RSJ.264","url":null,"abstract":"Review of Andy King and Andrew M. Spencer, eds., Edward I: New Interpretations (Woodbridge: York Medieval Press, 2020).","PeriodicalId":36175,"journal":{"name":"Royal Studies Journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42730759","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A range of biblical figures were depicted or invoked across the entertainments staged for Elizabeth I of England while she was on progress. These biblical figures were used to counsel and critique Elizabeth, with the pageant devisers using a variety of typologies to present Elizabeth as a providential monarch, legitimise her actions (both religious and political), and exhort her to take further actions against Catholics, both at home and abroad. To explore the relationship between royal power and biblical typology in civic entertainments staged for Elizabeth, this article analyses the appearance of biblical figures in two civic entertainments: Elizabeth’s coronation procession on 14 January 1559, and the entertainments staged in Norwich during the 1578 East Anglian progress. Using these two entertainments as case studies, this article reveals the links between biblical typologies and royal power, and adds to our understanding of the way that early modern monarchs were counselled and critiqued through biblical types in a variety of mediums.
{"title":"Biblical Typology and Royal Power in Elizabethan Civic Entertainments","authors":"Aidan Norrie","doi":"10.21039/RSJ.314","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21039/RSJ.314","url":null,"abstract":"A range of biblical figures were depicted or invoked across the entertainments staged for Elizabeth I of England while she was on progress. These biblical figures were used to counsel and critique Elizabeth, with the pageant devisers using a variety of typologies to present Elizabeth as a providential monarch, legitimise her actions (both religious and political), and exhort her to take further actions against Catholics, both at home and abroad. To explore the relationship between royal power and biblical typology in civic entertainments staged for Elizabeth, this article analyses the appearance of biblical figures in two civic entertainments: Elizabeth’s coronation procession on 14 January 1559, and the entertainments staged in Norwich during the 1578 East Anglian progress. Using these two entertainments as case studies, this article reveals the links between biblical typologies and royal power, and adds to our understanding of the way that early modern monarchs were counselled and critiqued through biblical types in a variety of mediums.","PeriodicalId":36175,"journal":{"name":"Royal Studies Journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48252768","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
During Mary II’s reign (1689-1694), several dialogue songs were written and performed in the Dutch Republic that featured her as a named character. This article studies five songs in which the character of Mary plays a number of roles, including daughter, wife, naval commander, and above all else, Queen of England. Building on previous research on queenship, studies of royal family loyalty, and recent work in performance theory, this article examines how these songs aided in constructing and interrogating queenship through performance. Through analysis of the songs, three intersections of power and performance, and how they overlap and interact, will be investigated. First, the wielding of power by a monarch as a form of performance. Second, performances that interrogate political power, as well as the possibilities and limitations of such acts. These two relations will then be combined to study the explicit use of performance as a metaphor by purposely ‘casting’ those in power into specific roles. This study will demonstrate how for a queen, especially Mary II, being cast in the role of wife whose husband is co-monarch, or a daughter whose father was forced to abdicate to make way for her, goes beyond stereotypical gender roles, as significant political relationships and governmental circumstances worthy of public discussion. Finally, this article explores how views of monarchy—and in particular, queenship—were constructed in the Dutch Republican context in which these songs were performed, thus providing an outsider perspective on the concept of queenship.
{"title":"Performing the Many Roles of Queenship: Mary II as a Character in Dutch Songs","authors":"S. Kleij","doi":"10.21039/rsj.309","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21039/rsj.309","url":null,"abstract":"During Mary II’s reign (1689-1694), several dialogue songs were written and performed in the Dutch Republic that featured her as a named character. This article studies five songs in which the character of Mary plays a number of roles, including daughter, wife, naval commander, and above all else, Queen of England. Building on previous research on queenship, studies of royal family loyalty, and recent work in performance theory, this article examines how these songs aided in constructing and interrogating queenship through performance. Through analysis of the songs, three intersections of power and performance, and how they overlap and interact, will be investigated. First, the wielding of power by a monarch as a form of performance. Second, performances that interrogate political power, as well as the possibilities and limitations of such acts. These two relations will then be combined to study the explicit use of performance as a metaphor by purposely ‘casting’ those in power into specific roles. This study will demonstrate how for a queen, especially Mary II, being cast in the role of wife whose husband is co-monarch, or a daughter whose father was forced to abdicate to make way for her, goes beyond stereotypical gender roles, as significant political relationships and governmental circumstances worthy of public discussion. Finally, this article explores how views of monarchy—and in particular, queenship—were constructed in the Dutch Republican context in which these songs were performed, thus providing an outsider perspective on the concept of queenship.","PeriodicalId":36175,"journal":{"name":"Royal Studies Journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42817937","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Review of Andreas Gestrich and Michael Schaich, eds., The Hanoverian Succession: Dynastic Politics and Monarchical Culture (Farnham: Ashgate, 2015).
Andreas Gestrich和Michael Schaich编辑，《汉诺威继承：王朝政治和君主文化》（Farnham:Ashgate，2015）。
{"title":"Gestrich and Schaich (eds), The Hanoverian Succession: Dynastic Politics and Monarchical Culture (Ashgate, 2015)","authors":"Charlotte Backerra","doi":"10.21039/RSJ.300","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21039/RSJ.300","url":null,"abstract":"Review of Andreas Gestrich and Michael Schaich, eds., The Hanoverian Succession: Dynastic Politics and Monarchical Culture (Farnham: Ashgate, 2015).","PeriodicalId":36175,"journal":{"name":"Royal Studies Journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45464497","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article discusses the use of performative techniques in prose accounts of the past written in early modern England. Building on scholarship that has located the source of early modern emotional engagement with the past in the history play, it shows that prose texts should be seen alongside history plays as forms that provided access to performance of historical characters. Chronicles, political texts, and other prose accounts of the past deployed invented speech, performative description, and interiorised characterisation at moments of heightened emotional and political intensity. Focusing as a case study on accounts of the reign of Edward II—which attracted substantial cross-genre attention, particularly from the second half of the sixteenth century onwards, owing to its paradigmatic status as an exemplum of overmighty favourites and deposition, and which was shaped by writers of all genres into an emotionally compelling de casibus narrative structure—this article shows that the use of performative techniques in these texts facilitated both emotional and political engagement with the past. Attention to these performative elements of historical prose thus prompts us to reassess the complexity, interiority and vividness of chronicles; to reimagine the place of history plays in early modern culture, as one among many forms which provided access to performance of historical characters; and to augment our understanding of the process by which history was made usable; to reconfigure our understanding of the nature of early modern people’s relationship to the past, underlining the significance of the emotional dimension of that relationship alongside the utilitarian.
{"title":"Performing Historical Monarchs in Early Modern England: Beyond the History Play","authors":"K. Heyam","doi":"10.21039/RSJ.308","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21039/RSJ.308","url":null,"abstract":"This article discusses the use of performative techniques in prose accounts of the past written in early modern England. Building on scholarship that has located the source of early modern emotional engagement with the past in the history play, it shows that prose texts should be seen alongside history plays as forms that provided access to performance of historical characters. Chronicles, political texts, and other prose accounts of the past deployed invented speech, performative description, and interiorised characterisation at moments of heightened emotional and political intensity. Focusing as a case study on accounts of the reign of Edward II—which attracted substantial cross-genre attention, particularly from the second half of the sixteenth century onwards, owing to its paradigmatic status as an exemplum of overmighty favourites and deposition, and which was shaped by writers of all genres into an emotionally compelling de casibus narrative structure—this article shows that the use of performative techniques in these texts facilitated both emotional and political engagement with the past. Attention to these performative elements of historical prose thus prompts us to reassess the complexity, interiority and vividness of chronicles; to reimagine the place of history plays in early modern culture, as one among many forms which provided access to performance of historical characters; and to augment our understanding of the process by which history was made usable; to reconfigure our understanding of the nature of early modern people’s relationship to the past, underlining the significance of the emotional dimension of that relationship alongside the utilitarian.","PeriodicalId":36175,"journal":{"name":"Royal Studies Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41365044","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Review of A.N. Wilson, Prince Albert: The Man Who Saved the Monarchy (London: Atlantic Books, 2019).
A.N.Wilson评论，《阿尔伯特亲王：拯救君主的人》（伦敦：大西洋出版社，2019）。
{"title":"Wilson, Prince Albert: The Man Who Saved the Monarchy (Atlantic Books, 2019)","authors":"Aidan Jones","doi":"10.21039/RSJ.261","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21039/RSJ.261","url":null,"abstract":"Review of A.N. Wilson, Prince Albert: The Man Who Saved the Monarchy (London: Atlantic Books, 2019).","PeriodicalId":36175,"journal":{"name":"Royal Studies Journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47910266","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"McGrath, Royal Rage and the Construction of Anglo-Norman Authority, c.1000-1250 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)","authors":"G. Storey","doi":"10.21039/rsj.248","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21039/rsj.248","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36175,"journal":{"name":"Royal Studies Journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47959455","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Horowski, Das Europa der Könige (Rowohlt, 2018)","authors":"Juliane Märker","doi":"10.21039/rsj.230","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21039/rsj.230","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36175,"journal":{"name":"Royal Studies Journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45328969","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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