John Watkins
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781501707575
- eISBN:
- 9781501708527
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9781501707575.003.0005
- Subject:
- Literature, Early and Medieval Literature
This chapter discusses the earliest stages of the decline of marriage diplomacy by focusing on the most important marriage treaty during the Reformation: the 1559 Peace of Cateau–Cambrésis, which ...
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This chapter discusses the earliest stages of the decline of marriage diplomacy by focusing on the most important marriage treaty during the Reformation: the 1559 Peace of Cateau–Cambrésis, which ended more than a half century of war between France and Spain. That war and its eventual resolution looked like a replay of the later phases of the Hundred Years War of 1337–1453. Proponents of the treaty used the new medium of print to interpret Philip II's marriage to Elizabeth de Valois according to the centuries-old discourse of Virgilian peacemaking. The chapter also examines changes in religion and the dissemination of diplomatic literacy to an expanding political nation whose interests diverged from those of ruling dynasts. It concludes by showing how diplomats and heads of state availed themselves of several marriage treaties in their efforts to end the Hundred Years War.Less
This chapter discusses the earliest stages of the decline of marriage diplomacy by focusing on the most important marriage treaty during the Reformation: the 1559 Peace of Cateau–Cambrésis, which ended more than a half century of war between France and Spain. That war and its eventual resolution looked like a replay of the later phases of the Hundred Years War of 1337–1453. Proponents of the treaty used the new medium of print to interpret Philip II's marriage to Elizabeth de Valois according to the centuries-old discourse of Virgilian peacemaking. The chapter also examines changes in religion and the dissemination of diplomatic literacy to an expanding political nation whose interests diverged from those of ruling dynasts. It concludes by showing how diplomats and heads of state availed themselves of several marriage treaties in their efforts to end the Hundred Years War.
Conrad Russell
- Published in print:
- 1979
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198224822
- eISBN:
- 9780191678578
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198224822.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Early Modern History, Political History
The Parliament of 1625 marked the new reign of Charles. His new queen, Henrietta Maria, arrived in London on June 16, and the Parliament assembled on June 18. While the Parliament was petitioning ...
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The Parliament of 1625 marked the new reign of Charles. His new queen, Henrietta Maria, arrived in London on June 16, and the Parliament assembled on June 18. While the Parliament was petitioning Charles for a public declaration that the recusancy laws be enforced, the French threatened him with the ruin of his marriage if he did what the Parliament asked. The French insisted on these conditions believing that England needed the alliance more than France, and that the English would have to take the terms offered. The opening months of Charles's reign was also faced by the menaces of plague, pirates, and religious fears. The second section of this chapter looks into the events of the London session, noting the key speech mad by Phelips about subsidies. The third section describes the Oxford session which lasted from August 1 to 12.Less
The Parliament of 1625 marked the new reign of Charles. His new queen, Henrietta Maria, arrived in London on June 16, and the Parliament assembled on June 18. While the Parliament was petitioning Charles for a public declaration that the recusancy laws be enforced, the French threatened him with the ruin of his marriage if he did what the Parliament asked. The French insisted on these conditions believing that England needed the alliance more than France, and that the English would have to take the terms offered. The opening months of Charles's reign was also faced by the menaces of plague, pirates, and religious fears. The second section of this chapter looks into the events of the London session, noting the key speech mad by Phelips about subsidies. The third section describes the Oxford session which lasted from August 1 to 12.
John Watkins
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781501707575
- eISBN:
- 9781501708527
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9781501707575.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Early and Medieval Literature
The Renaissance jurist Alberico Gentili once quipped that, just like comedies, all wars end in a marriage. In medieval and early modern Europe, marriage treaties were a perennial feature of the ...
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The Renaissance jurist Alberico Gentili once quipped that, just like comedies, all wars end in a marriage. In medieval and early modern Europe, marriage treaties were a perennial feature of the diplomatic landscape. When one ruler decided to make peace with his enemy, the two parties often sealed their settlement with marriages between their respective families. This book traces the history of the practice, focusing on the unusually close relationship between diplomacy and literary production in Western Europe from antiquity through the seventeenth century, when marriage began to lose its effectiveness and prestige as a tool of diplomacy. The book begins with Virgil's foundational myth of the marriage between the Trojan hero Aeneas and the Latin princess, an account that formed the basis for numerous medieval and Renaissance celebrations of dynastic marriages by courtly poets and propagandists. It follows the slow decline of diplomatic marriage as both a tool of statecraft and a literary subject, exploring the skepticism and suspicion with which it was viewed in the works of Edmund Spenser and William Shakespeare. The book argues that the plays of Pierre Corneille and Jean Racine signal the passing of an international order that had once accorded women a place of unique dignity and respect.Less
The Renaissance jurist Alberico Gentili once quipped that, just like comedies, all wars end in a marriage. In medieval and early modern Europe, marriage treaties were a perennial feature of the diplomatic landscape. When one ruler decided to make peace with his enemy, the two parties often sealed their settlement with marriages between their respective families. This book traces the history of the practice, focusing on the unusually close relationship between diplomacy and literary production in Western Europe from antiquity through the seventeenth century, when marriage began to lose its effectiveness and prestige as a tool of diplomacy. The book begins with Virgil's foundational myth of the marriage between the Trojan hero Aeneas and the Latin princess, an account that formed the basis for numerous medieval and Renaissance celebrations of dynastic marriages by courtly poets and propagandists. It follows the slow decline of diplomatic marriage as both a tool of statecraft and a literary subject, exploring the skepticism and suspicion with which it was viewed in the works of Edmund Spenser and William Shakespeare. The book argues that the plays of Pierre Corneille and Jean Racine signal the passing of an international order that had once accorded women a place of unique dignity and respect.
John Watkins
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781501707575
- eISBN:
- 9781501708527
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9781501707575.003.0004
- Subject:
- Literature, Early and Medieval Literature
This chapter focuses on interdynastic marriage during the High Middle Ages. In particular, it examines the new emphasis on peacemaking in marriage diplomacy and its competition with other, generally ...
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This chapter focuses on interdynastic marriage during the High Middle Ages. In particular, it examines the new emphasis on peacemaking in marriage diplomacy and its competition with other, generally negative attitudes toward marriage diplomacy. The chapter first considers how theological and devotional developments in the eleventh and twelfth centuries attributed a new sanctity to marriages between former belligerents by honoring brides as types of the Virgin Mary. It then discusses Dudo of Saint-Quentin's chronicle De moribus et actis primorum Normanniæ ducum, along with another Christian encounter with non-Christian representations of marriage and desire, the courtly love tradition, with its roots in Arabic and Ovidian accounts of erotic despair. The chapter shows that, by the High Middle Ages, the ideals that would support the great marriage treaties of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries were in place.Less
This chapter focuses on interdynastic marriage during the High Middle Ages. In particular, it examines the new emphasis on peacemaking in marriage diplomacy and its competition with other, generally negative attitudes toward marriage diplomacy. The chapter first considers how theological and devotional developments in the eleventh and twelfth centuries attributed a new sanctity to marriages between former belligerents by honoring brides as types of the Virgin Mary. It then discusses Dudo of Saint-Quentin's chronicle De moribus et actis primorum Normanniæ ducum, along with another Christian encounter with non-Christian representations of marriage and desire, the courtly love tradition, with its roots in Arabic and Ovidian accounts of erotic despair. The chapter shows that, by the High Middle Ages, the ideals that would support the great marriage treaties of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries were in place.
Matthew Strickland
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780300215519
- eISBN:
- 9780300219555
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300215519.003.0007
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Medieval History
This chapter examines Henry the Young King's conflict with his father, Henry II, that planted the seeds of the rebellion of 1173–1174. It begins with a discussion of the proposed marriage treaty of ...
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This chapter examines Henry the Young King's conflict with his father, Henry II, that planted the seeds of the rebellion of 1173–1174. It begins with a discussion of the proposed marriage treaty of Maurienne, regarded by Henry II as a key element in his grand diplomacy, and proceeds by looking at the causes of his rift with young Henry. It then considers how pressures from within Henry II's household exacerbated the underlying tensions between father and son, along with young Henry's flight from Chinon to France after his father discovered the planned rebellion against him. It also explains how the Young King's flight to France exposed the divisions within his own household and concludes with an analysis of the role of Eleanor of Aquitaine in the conspiracy, young Henry's formation of a coalition of allies against Henry II, his baronial supporters of the rebellion, and the rebels' motives and ambitions.Less
This chapter examines Henry the Young King's conflict with his father, Henry II, that planted the seeds of the rebellion of 1173–1174. It begins with a discussion of the proposed marriage treaty of Maurienne, regarded by Henry II as a key element in his grand diplomacy, and proceeds by looking at the causes of his rift with young Henry. It then considers how pressures from within Henry II's household exacerbated the underlying tensions between father and son, along with young Henry's flight from Chinon to France after his father discovered the planned rebellion against him. It also explains how the Young King's flight to France exposed the divisions within his own household and concludes with an analysis of the role of Eleanor of Aquitaine in the conspiracy, young Henry's formation of a coalition of allies against Henry II, his baronial supporters of the rebellion, and the rebels' motives and ambitions.
