...; Lesley Coote, Prophecy and Public Affairs in Later Medieval England (Woodbridge, Suffolk: York Medieval Press, 2000); Adrian Ailes, Heraldry in Medieval England: Symbols of Politics and Propaganda, in Heraldry, Pageantry, and Social Display in Medieval England, ed. Peter Cross and Maurice Keen...

... with the harsh realities of Elizabethan justice, readings that examine the politics of the Legend of Justice tend either to reproduce Lewis’s claim and see the allegory as a simple propaganda tool for the polit- ically powerful or to retreat from real politics into the neutral...

... the cult is shared by those who dismiss it as political propaganda, such as McKenna, “Piety and Propaganda”; and Wolffe,Henry VI; and those such as Duffy,Stripping of the Altars, who read it as evidence of the vitality of “traditional religion.” Freeman, “Ut verus Christi seques...

...) history and political propaganda. The point of this Orientalist turn, though, is not so much to establish or confirm a relation of Latin Christian dominance over the East as to press an account of such prior (wished-for) dominance into service in the political struggles between the Douglas family...

.... It highlights the importance of Greek Christian history (from the patristic era to the fall of Constantinople) to reformers across the confessional spectrum, and investigates the various uses of this history in justifying or criticizing England's break with Rome, focusing upon the government's propaganda tracts...

... by Geoffrey of Mon- mouth. Geoffrey usurps the name of the Britons and creates a “British” his- tory that he, and the authors following him, exploited in order to legitimate various political dynasties, ideologies, and values. Mannyng’s transforma- tion of British history into English history requires him...

... University of New Hampshire Durham, New Hampshire Sir Walter Ralegh’s The Discoverie of the Large, Rich and Bewtiful Empyre of Guiana (1596), which was incorporated into part 8 of Theodor De Bry’s America series (1599), makes clear the politics governing travel...

... fariner raises other cultural sensitivities as well. First is the island nation s relative weakness as a small, geographically isolated Protestant realm facing Catholic Europe.35 The Catholic threat sustained in political propaganda and religious discourse throughout the period registers...

... especially, they have retained their force over the intervening centuries.1 For this reason, the comparison I am about to make may come as a surprise. Blood libel propaganda —  accusations of Jewish host desecration and ritual murder — is much less fre- quent in Iberia and surfaces much later than...

...Alexander Samson England and Spain's close ties of kinship had bound the royal houses together stretching back to the thirteenth century. In the later sixteenth century, English interest in Spanish culture, history, and politics had intensified precisely during the period when political relations...

... for the Spanish Match negotiations. Later he became a captain in Flanders for the Span- ish army. Ultimately he renounced Catholicism and emigrated to England where he rejected his past affiliations in a series of sensational writings. The first of these was an autobiographical sob story and political...

... the Morte as a personal as well as a public tragedy.8 But I would like to move away from the idea that the intrusion of the private into the public is primarily a generic concern, and attempt to historicize Malory’s appropriation of this vestigial sovereignty motif as a political strategy...

... of Scots, 319). 10 Staines, Tragic Histories, 43. On the uses of Mary’s “immorality” in the political struggle between the queen and the Confederate Lords, see Tricia A.McElroy, “Imag- ining the ‘Scottis Natioun’: Populism and Propaganda in Scottish Satirical Broad- sides,” Texas...

... in this chain of appropriation, usefully foreground some of the intricacies of cultural transmission and hence make a good starting point for considering cultural appropriation in medieval Europe and modern reflections on it. The politics not just of appropriation but of theorizing about...

...Susan Zimmerman The phenomenon of disease played an important role in the development of premodern European culture, and in the reciprocal exchanges between Europe and the New World. Its understanding and regulation involved all sectors of society–religion, politics, science, law, commerce...

... analysis of its political message and appeal. This essay reads The Whore of Babylon in this wider European diplomatic context by placing it in conversation with contemporary political and theological treatises and diplomatic communications. Dekker’s play is also read as part of a wider theatrical tradition...

... content to explain their widespread pres- ence by reference to their function in crusading propaganda, where their monstrous presence serves as both a call to arms and an uncomplicated antithesis to Christian identity. When a medieval text declares that in the Holy...

... and the Saintly Subject in Islam and Christianity. Comparative Theology: Thinking across Traditions. New York: Fordham University Press, 2017. xix, 288 pp. $88.00, paper $25.00. McCormick, John P. Reading Machiavelli: Scandalous Books, Suspect Engagements, and the Virtue of Populist Politics. Princeton, N.J...

... of the nineteenth century. Harrison writes of other nations: Howbeit, as those which are bred in sundry places of the main do come behind us in constitution of body, so I grant that in pregnancy of wit, nimbleness of limbs and politic inventions...

... of reformation through to the later seventeenth century. But the plural also encourages investigation of what has seemed a mistaken homogenization of the religious and political processes involved at all stages of “the Reformation.” The articles in this issue look at the grand narratives into which the minute...