Engendering England: The Restructuring of Allegiance in the Writings of Richard Morison and John Bale

This paper examines the way in which old systems of allegiance are interrogated, and replaced by an emergent nationalism in two writers closely associated with the Cromwell government: Richard Morison and John Bale. In their attempt to contruct nationhood in sixteenth-century England, both Morison a...

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Published in:Renaissance and Reformation 1996-01, Vol.20 (1), p.49-77
Main Author: VANHOUTTE, JACQUELINE A.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Catholicism
Christianity
Countries
Friars
Mothers
Nationalism
Popes
Sedition
Theater
Treason
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Summary:This paper examines the way in which old systems of allegiance are interrogated, and replaced by an emergent nationalism in two writers closely associated with the Cromwell government: Richard Morison and John Bale. In their attempt to contruct nationhood in sixteenth-century England, both Morison and Bale adapt late medieval ways of imagining community in order to provoke a shift in allegiance and a reunification of the English nation modelled on patriarchal structures.
ISSN:0034-429X
2293-7374