The swearing of oaths is a cultural phenomenon that pervades English history and was remarkably important during the sixteenth century. This multi-disciplinary work explores how writers of the Tudor era addressed the subject in response to the profound changes of the Reformation and the creative explosion of the Elizabethan period. Topics include how the art of rhetoric was deployed in polemic, the way in which oaths formed bonds between Church and State, and how oaths functioned in literature, as ceremony and as a language England used to describe itself during times of radical change.
The swearing of oaths is a cultural phenomenon that pervades English history and was remarkably important during the sixteenth century. This multi-disciplinary work explores how writers of the Tudor era addressed the subject in response to the profound changes of the Reformation and the creative explosion of the Elizabethan period. Topics include how the art of rhetoric was deployed in polemic, the way in which oaths formed bonds between Church and State, and how oaths functioned in literature, as ceremony and as a language England used to describe itself during times of radical change.
Thea Cervone lectures in medieval and renaissance literature at the University of Southern California. She has published on the ghost tradition of the sixteenth century and on propaganda plays of the Reformation.
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Table of Contents Preface Introduction 1. Defiance by Prerogative: The Coronation Oath of Henry VIII 2. The Matter of Resources: Sworn Bond and Biblical Example in The Boke Named the Governour 3. Additions and Admissions: The Manipulation of Sworn Bond in the Henrician Fealty Oath 4. Grudging, Muttering, and Horn Blasts: Aurality and Performativity in Reformation Polemic 5. Credibility Among Cynics: Coerced Sworn Bond in More, Bale, and Harington 6. Oath, Obligation, and Obedience: Fealty and Service in Three Plays About King John 7. Virtue by Degrees: Espousal in Spenser's Faerie Queene, Books III-IV Appendix A. The French Version of the Anomalous Form of the Oath of Edward II Appendix B. The Recantation of William Tolwyn, Recorded by Alexander Seton, and Reprinted by John Bale Chapter Notes Bibliography Index
Table of Contents Preface Introduction 1. Defiance by Prerogative: The Coronation Oath of Henry VIII 2. The Matter of Resources: Sworn Bond and Biblical Example in The Boke Named the Governour 3. Additions and Admissions: The Manipulation of Sworn Bond in the Henrician Fealty Oath 4. Grudging, Muttering, and Horn Blasts: Aurality and Performativity in Reformation Polemic 5. Credibility Among Cynics: Coerced Sworn Bond in More, Bale, and Harington 6. Oath, Obligation, and Obedience: Fealty and Service in Three Plays About King John 7. Virtue by Degrees: Espousal in Spenser's Faerie Queene, Books III-IV Appendix A. The French Version of the Anomalous Form of the Oath of Edward II Appendix B. The Recantation of William Tolwyn, Recorded by Alexander Seton, and Reprinted by John Bale Chapter Notes Bibliography Index
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