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... converted to one of the confessions? Was there a hybrid double religious belonging to both faiths? This study explores the nature of the ties between religious conversion and political allegiance. Drawing on contemporary theoretical debate and historical case studies, it argues that a “double conversion...

... a different policy and outlook and had their own networks of influence. Using particularly the acrimonious falling out between Walsingham and another privy councillor, Lord Hunsdon, over Scottish policy in 1584, this essay analyzes the influence of personalities, political allegiances, and ideological factors...

... high-political events.16 Yet at the same time it is significant that the concept of incest could be used as a political tool. This essay attempts to examine that recip- rocal relationship. I consider the ways in which class structures and ethnic identities, and the political allegiances bound up...

... the categories Oriental and Hispanic belong to the question of “race” or the question of “ethnicity.” For the historian, such usage is to be regarded as an interesting fact about the intellectual and political history of our own times but cannot itself provide...

..., I beleeve nothing, whosoever he be that speakes it, especially if he be a Papist” (sig. G2r). The two thus reach an impasse. Each will believe what his religio-political allegiance inclines him to believe; each will accept as proof what serves to support that existing...

... intersection with changes in civic and ecclesiastical politics as well as religious belief and practice over the course of their sixteenth- century development.1 It is precisely such institutional and ideological change that has shaped prevailing applications of the categories “medieval” and “early...

...- teen years of his English reign has contributed to this situation. But so has the fact that his theoretical treatises dealing with European politics the Apolo- gie for the Oath of Allegiance (1608), Premonition to all Christian Monarchs, Free Princes and States (1609), and Declaration du Serenissime...

... Marek has argued, their substitutionality for the king s own once- living, once- breathing body.41 And they present the prospect of being assimilated into a political statement against our own will and against our own allegiance. Indeed, one chronicler concludes a grisly roster of decapita- tions...

...- ne’s works, particularly in Biathanatos (a “charitable” interpretation of self-­ homicide) and Pseudo-­Martyr (a tract arguing that English Catholics should take the Oath of Allegiance). It is a passive martyrdom that arrives as an event but cannot be recommended as exemplary political action...

...- toria Iherosolimitana, 3:796 – 97). However, in Robert’s account the two men focus on theological conversations, rather than shifting political allegiances. Pirus asks Bohemond where he has camped the “immense army of white clad men,” which had vanquished the Turks at every battle. Pirus’s line...

... position reveal what is implicitly political about such lateral thinking. If the alternative technological framework of the digital edition may break Old English studies free from the inherited ideological entanglements informing both the early-date and agnostic positions, then Kiernan's digital Beowulf...

... a continuous identity. One cannot say, “I swore that to be the case, but the person who made that oath was a different self,” or “I undertook an oath of allegiance yesterday, but today I’m no longer the same person, so I’m not bound by my oath,” just as taking refuge in the dispar- ity between...

... political bureaucracy and an older model based upon aristocratic family allegiances. At the very moment of his defeat as a lover, Orestes is called upon to signify two conflicting systems of social relationships. The untenable melding of these two identity positions reveals itself almost...

... of seapower; it was a space into which the political and economic ambitions of the land could be extended. The Mediterranean and its attendant seas were the site of an ongoing struggle among peoples and monarchs for possession of lands, goods, communal allegiance, and prestige. Indeed, the rival...

... by Duke University Press / 2004 / $2.00. trajectory of empire could be. Indeed, across the dialectic of east and west plays another, that of north and south. The worlds of early medieval Iberia are the result of its traffic— cultural, economic, social, and political—with the lands of the Mediterranean...

...: the bristle-backed Micenes, the seductively handsome Margariz of Seville, Marsile’s son Jurfaleu the Blond (1904), and his nephew, who bears the dis- tinctly Germanic name Aëlroth (1188). What these disparate figures have in common is their allegiance to Baligant...

.... In describing the shrine as an enclosure, one Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 32:2, Spring 2002. Copyright © by Duke University Press / 2002 / $2.00. that protects the incorrupted body of the saint and one over which the monks swear oaths of allegiance...

..., as is evident in much recent work produced by medieval scholars.4 Of the scholarship produced within both medieval and Victorian studies, a substantial proportion has been devoted to exploring the role of medievalism in the formulation of cultural, political...

... Encounter with Chocolate  189 Gage’s enjoyment of Spanish-American cuisine is compromised by his shifting political and religious allegiances. His English readers, after all, are expecting a confessional exposé. Hence, in a move that recalls St. Augus- tine’s rejection of worldly pleasure, Gage...

...- cal allegiances and exile in the writing of women like Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1623? – 1673), and Katherine Philips (1632 – 1664).11 Yet, as McElligot and Smith suggest, the participation of such women in the unfolding military and political events remains subservient...