التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
Religion, Household-State Authority, and the Defense of "Collapsed Ladies" in Early Jacobean England. |
| المؤلفون: |
Peters, Christine1 |
| المصدر: |
Sixteenth Century Journal. Fall2014, Vol. 45 Issue 3, p631-657. 27p. |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
*ENGLISH Catholics, *CHURCH & state, *SPOUSES' legal relationship, *HOUSEHOLDS, *OATH of allegiance, 1606, *SEVENTEENTH century, REIGN of James I, Great Britain, 1603-1625 |
| مصطلحات جغرافية: |
UNITED Kingdom, ENGLAND |
| مستخلص: |
This article argues that specific features among the early Jacobean Catholic community enabled a reevaluation of the obedience owed by wives to their husbands and of the household-state analogy. At the forefront of this development was a new category of Catholic "collapsed ladies" who actively rejected state Protestantism. Such women were potentially disruptive in a period in which the stability of the household-state analogy was being tested by recusancy and by scrupulous interpretations of the Oath of Allegiance. From a loyalist perspective, and building on Catholic understandings of reason, conscience, and humanist education, it was possible in 1609 for a female-voiced manuscript to corrode the idea that a man's status in the state depended on how he governed his wife, and that a wife was subject to her husband in matters of conscience. The manuscript writer's assumed location in St.-Omer suggests a possible connection with Mary Ward and her circle. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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