Clare Gittings. Death, Burial and the Individual in Early Modern England. Dover, N.H.: Croom Helm. 1984. Pp. 269. $34.50.

1986 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-84
Author(s):  
Miriam Slater
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Early Modern England ◽  
The Individual

“Vows to the Blackest Devil”: Hamlet and the Evolving Code of Honor in Early Modern England

1999 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 1070-1086 ◽  
Author(s):  
Reta A. Terry
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Early Modern England ◽  
The State ◽  
Honor Code ◽  
Honor System ◽  
The Individual ◽  
State Analysis

The Renaissance was a period in which the honor code underwent a significant metamorphosis. The medieval, chivalric code of honor, with its emphasis on lineage, allegiance to one's lord and violence, evolved into an honor code that was both more moral and political in that it began to emphasize the individual conscience and allegience to the state. Analysis of Shakespeare's Hamlet, and in particular its characters' use of promise, provides new and revealing insights into the evolving Renaissance codes of honor, for Shakespeare creates characters in Hamlet that represent various stages in the evolution of a changing honor system.

scholarly journals Destabilising Decapitation in 'King Henry VI'

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-60
Author(s):  
Hannah Simpson ◽  
Hannah Simpson
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Early Modern England ◽  
State Authority ◽  
Henry Vi ◽  
The Individual

In early modern England, state beheadings were carefully codified, reserved for the nobility and those convicted of treason. The highest and lowest in society were sentenced to beheading: those who headed the nation and those who threatened the head of the nation. Beheading was both a confirmation and an inscription of power: the publicly-staged state-mandated beheading inscribed the state’s power on the subject’s body, reducing the individual to a legible, mastered sign. The decapitated head was intended to be a stable, monosemantic inscription of state power.Shakespeare, however, often resisted the idea of the decapitated head as a permanent, definitive inscription of state authority. This article will examine decapitations in Shakespeare’s King Henry VI Parts 1, 2 and 3 (1591), exploring how these plays undermine the state’s attempt to inscribe a stable, single meaning on the decapitated head. The plays do this in two ways: firstly, by challenging the state’s monopoly on according hierarchised punishment, by staging illicit beheadings; secondly, by according an agency and an influence to the decapitated head itself on the stage. The recognition of how these staged beheadings undermine the state’s inscription of power might guide us towards seeing the genre’s recurrently subversive response to the state’s claim to authority.

Death, Burial and the Individual in Early Modern England.

1990 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 339
Author(s):  
Eric Josef Carlson ◽  
Clare Gittings
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Early Modern England ◽  
The Individual

Death, Burial and the Individual in Early Modern England

1986 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 738
Author(s):  
Marc L. Schwarz ◽  
Clare Gittings
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Early Modern England ◽  
The Individual

scholarly journals Godly Women in Early Modern England: Puritanism and Gender

1992 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 561-580 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diane Willen
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Early Modern England ◽  
Women's Spirituality ◽  
Traditional Practices ◽  
Sources Of Authority ◽  
Alternative Sources ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Time Changes ◽  
The Individual

This paper argues that Puritanism and gender interacted in dialectic fashion in seventeenth-century England and changed one another significantly as a result of that interaction.1 Such Puritan strategies as reliance on the experience of the individual, extensive use of literacy, and infusion of spiritual issues into all activities deeply affected women's spirituality and their conventional roles in the community. At the same time, changes in the traditional practices of gender altered the Puritan experience. Gender gave new reality to the Puritan emphasis on spiritual egalitarianism, the Puritan practice of godly communion and counsel, and the development of lay–clerical relationships. From the interaction between Puritanism and gender, new forms of reciprocity and alternative sources of authority emerged among the godly.

Death, Burial and the Individual in Early Modern England

1990 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 470
Author(s):  
R. O. Bucholz ◽  
Clare Gittings
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Early Modern England ◽  
The Individual

Death, Burial and the Individual in Early Modern England.

1985 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 570
Author(s):  
Robert Tittler ◽  
Clare Gittings
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Early Modern England ◽  
The Individual
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