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Court Politics (court + politics)

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Selected Abstracts

Art and Communication in the Reign of Henry VIII , By Tatiana C. String Court Politics, Culture and Literature in Scotland and England, 1500,1540 , By Jon Robinson

RENAISSANCE STUDIES, Issue 5 2009
Jerome De Groot
No abstract is available for this article. [source]

Edward VI's ,speciall men': crown and locality in mid Tudor England*

HISTORICAL RESEARCH, Issue 216 2009
Alan Bryson
Court politics was to some degree factional during Edward VI's reign (1547,53), but the danger of this happening on a wide scale in the counties was recognized. The dukes of Somerset and Northumberland could not afford to alienate the nobility and gentry by monopolizing local offices. Therefore, they built working relationships between centre and localities through the judicious use of patronage, including expanding the commissions of the peace. Maintaining goodwill and effective lines of communication was vital to crown-county relations and the office of lord lieutenant (established from 1548) was critical. It was political failure, not faction, that brought down Somerset's and Northumberland's regimes. [source]

Queenship: Politics and Gender in Tudor England

HISTORY COMPASS (ELECTRONIC), Issue 2 2006
Retha Warnicke
In the Tudor century both queens consort and queens regnant presided at court. The role of consorts reflected that of noblewomen, who were expected to produce a male heir to continue their husband's line, to oversee some household functions, to supervise their female attendants, and to support religious enterprises deemed appropriate to women. In addition, their royal status offered consorts opportunities to engage in court politics and to influence patronage. Because giving birth to a male heir defined the success of their reign, their inability to reproduce or to protect their honor sometimes endangered their position as consort, as Henry VIII's wives discovered. By contrast, in addition to marrying and securing the succession, Mary and Elizabeth Tudor were expected to rule as monarchs. The perceived inability of women to govern led to demands that they heed their male councilors' advice. Concerns about whether her husband would dominate royal decision-making raised questions about Philip II's role in Mary's reign. Elizabeth compensated for her singleness by devising strategies for dealing with her male councilors and through representations of her public persona as male. [source]

MATERIAL MANOEUVRES: SARAH CHURCHILL, DUCHESS OF MARLBOROUGH AND THE POWER OF ARTEFACTS

ART HISTORY, Issue 3 2009
MARCIA POINTON
The first Duchess of Marlborough has been recognized as a powerful figure in court politics under Queen Anne. Her patronage of artists, sculptors, and architects , Laguerre, Rysbrack, Talman, Wren, Vanbrugh , has been examined by scholars. In this essay I take a different tack. I focus on a series of artefacts that played an important part in the Duchess's life: the jewels she amassed, the Turkish tent that her husband the Duke of Marlborough had used on the battlefield, and a sculpture of Queen Anne that she erected at Blenheim. Drawing on a wide range of sources from her own correspondence and contemporary biographies to caricature and popular print, I ask how an elite woman of immense wealth, but little formal education, strategically employed material things to exert influence socially and politically, and what were the unpredictable consequences thereof. [source]