J. Patrick Hornbeck II
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- September 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780823282173
- eISBN:
- 9780823286232
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823282173.003.0003
- Subject:
- Religion, History of Christianity
Chapter 2 begins by exploring the literary fate of George Cavendish’s Life of Cardinal Wolsey from the time of its composition at the end of Queen Mary’s reign through its first appearance in print, ...
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Chapter 2 begins by exploring the literary fate of George Cavendish’s Life of Cardinal Wolsey from the time of its composition at the end of Queen Mary’s reign through its first appearance in print, in a highly expurgated, theologically and politically partisan edition of 1641. Both manuscripts and printed editions of the Life are analyzed in detail. But the chapter’s broader concern is the representation of Wolsey under the first two Stuart monarchs. The years leading up to the outbreak of the English civil wars witnessed the publication of numerous texts featuring the cardinal, including several pamphlets critical of the churchmanship of Archbishop of Canterbury William Laud. The chapter considers these popular publications alongside early Stuart dramas, especially William Shakespeare’s and John Fletcher’s King Henry VIII, as well as learned texts like the church histories of Francis Godwin (1630) and Edward, Lord Herbert (written 1639, published 1649).Less
Chapter 2 begins by exploring the literary fate of George Cavendish’s Life of Cardinal Wolsey from the time of its composition at the end of Queen Mary’s reign through its first appearance in print, in a highly expurgated, theologically and politically partisan edition of 1641. Both manuscripts and printed editions of the Life are analyzed in detail. But the chapter’s broader concern is the representation of Wolsey under the first two Stuart monarchs. The years leading up to the outbreak of the English civil wars witnessed the publication of numerous texts featuring the cardinal, including several pamphlets critical of the churchmanship of Archbishop of Canterbury William Laud. The chapter considers these popular publications alongside early Stuart dramas, especially William Shakespeare’s and John Fletcher’s King Henry VIII, as well as learned texts like the church histories of Francis Godwin (1630) and Edward, Lord Herbert (written 1639, published 1649).
Mark Stoyle
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- January 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780859898591
- eISBN:
- 9781781384978
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9780859898591.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Early Modern History
This chapter argues that the remarkable success of the Observations owed much to the subtlety and skill with which its author tapped into a complex web of pre-existent ideas about the supernatural. ...
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This chapter argues that the remarkable success of the Observations owed much to the subtlety and skill with which its author tapped into a complex web of pre-existent ideas about the supernatural. Notions of the dog as a witch's attendant spirit, or ‘familiar’ – from the trial of Dame Alice Kyteler in 1324-5 right up until the trial of the Lancashire witches in 1634 - are discussed in depth, and particular attention is paid to the possibility that poodles and spaniels may have been regarded with an especially suspicious eye by contemporaries. The influence of a series of polemical works which were produced during 1641-42 – and particularly of the anti-puritan satires of John Taylor, the ‘water poet’ – on the author of the Observations is also explored. [125]Less
This chapter argues that the remarkable success of the Observations owed much to the subtlety and skill with which its author tapped into a complex web of pre-existent ideas about the supernatural. Notions of the dog as a witch's attendant spirit, or ‘familiar’ – from the trial of Dame Alice Kyteler in 1324-5 right up until the trial of the Lancashire witches in 1634 - are discussed in depth, and particular attention is paid to the possibility that poodles and spaniels may have been regarded with an especially suspicious eye by contemporaries. The influence of a series of polemical works which were produced during 1641-42 – and particularly of the anti-puritan satires of John Taylor, the ‘water poet’ – on the author of the Observations is also explored. [125]
