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This book analyses Anna of Denmark’s material and visual patronage at the Stuart courts, examining her engagement with a wide array of expressive media including architecture, garden design, painting, music, dress, and jewellery. Encompassing Anna’s time in Denmark, England, and Scotland, it establishes patterns of interest and influence in her agency, while furthering our knowledge of Baltic-British transfer in the early modern period. Substantial archival work has facilitated a formative re-conceptualisation of James and Anna’s relationship, extended our knowledge of the constituents of consortship in the period, and has uncovered evidence to challenge the view that Anna followed the cultural accomplishments of her son, Prince Henry. This book reclaims Anna of Denmark as the influential and culturally active royal woman that her contemporaries knew. Combining politics, culture, and religion across the courts of Denmark, Scotland, and England, it enriches our understanding of royal women’s roles in early modern patriarchal societies and their impact on the development of cultural modes and fashions. This book will be of interest to upper level undergraduate and postgraduate students taking courses on early modern Europe in the disciplines of Art and Architectural History, English Literature, Theatre Studies, History, and Gender Studies. It will also attract a wide range of academics working on early modern material and visual culture, and female patronage, while members of the public who enjoy the history of courts and the British royals will also find it distinctively appealing.
expressive media that often ran counter to the interests of King James. First articulated by Leeds Barroll and continued in the work of James Knowles, Clare McManus, and Sophie Tomlinson, among others, Anna’s masquing activities have been recognised as a central component of early Stuart court culture, and have provided a fertile platform for a reconsideration of her wider political import.17 As is now well known, the masque was an important occasion in the court calendar, and beyond its cultural significance, it had far-reaching political, diplomatic, and social
Salisbury), William Cotton, Bishop of Exeter (chaplain to John Aylmer of London) and Samuel Harsnett, Archbishop of York (chaplain to Richard Bancroft of London). Bancroft had himself been chaplain to Richard Cox of Ely and later was chaplain to the Lord Chancellor, Christopher Hatton. John Buckeridge, later Bishop of Ely, also served as chaplain to a nobleman, the Earl of Essex. 9 N. W. S. Cranfield, ‘Chaplains in ordinary at the early Stuart court: the purple road’, in Cross (ed.), Patronage and Recruitment in the Tudor and Early Stuart Church (York: Borthwick
highly invested in matters of law, politics, and diplomacy. They were largely cosmopolitan in their outlook, interested in travel and nascent forms of travel writing, and often turned to continental writers for inspiration. They valued parody, satire, and sophisticated literary jokes and preferred a plainer way of speaking to the more elaborate speech of the late Elizabethan and early Stuart courts. Herbert is not often considered an active member of this fellowship, apart from his friendship with John Donne. Yet the
, the performance of playtexts in the playhouse was very different from how drama was staged in the Elizabethan and early Stuart playhouse. Perhaps Davenant’s protectorate masques had a greater aesthetic legacy than their political context would suggest. In transferring the court masque to the public stage, Davenant introduced novelties such as the proscenium arch, scenery and women actors. These innovations were retained and built upon as exiled royalists (who were accustomed to these staging conventions in continental theatre houses and at the early Stuart court
William Sancroft, 1.120–2; Bodleian, MS Tanner 48, fol. 55r: George Davenport to Sancroft, Bishop Auckland, 4 October 1662 (printed in Pask and Harvey (eds.), The Letters of George Davenport, p. 99). The bishop’s regard for his ‘exquisite judgement’ was emphasised to Sancroft after the bishop’s death: Bodleian, MS Tanner 42, fol. 69r: John Durel to Sancroft, 8 January 1673/74. 51 Bodleian, MS Tanner 48, fols 52r, 53r; BL, Harleian MS 3784, fol. 77r. 52 Beddard, ‘William Sancroft’; N. W. S. Cranfield, ‘Chaplains in ordinary at the early Stuart court: the purple road
Carleton’s hand. 63 Hampshire Record Office, 11194W/C5/2. 64 N. W. S. Cranfield, ‘Chaplains in ordinary at the early Stuart court: the purple road’, in C. Cross (ed.), Patronage and Recruitment in the Tudor and Early Stuart Church (York: Borthwick Institute of Historical Research, 1996), pp. 120–47. 65 NA, SP 29/259/230, petition of John Lewis, 5 May 1669, for aid in return for gifts ‘in the tyme of the Late warrs’ of ‘fiue hundred pounds in gold with four good horses besides seuerall other summes’, and further losses ‘to the value of three thousand pounds’ to the
(Stanford, 2004); D. Como, Radical Parliamentarians and the English Civil War (Oxford, 2018); P. Lake, ‘Joseph Hall, Robert Skinner, and the Rhetoric of Moderation of the Early Stuart Court’, in L.A. Ferrell and P. McCullough (eds), The English Sermon Revised: Religion, Literature and History 1600–1750 (Manchester, 2000), 167–85; E. Shagan, The Rule of Moderation: Violence, Religion and the Politics of Restraint in Early Modern England (Cambridge, 2011), ch. 4. 8
, 19, 42. 7 Ibid. , p. 6. 8 Ibid. , p. 35. 9 ‘The Bishop of Bristols speech’ in A few memorials of … Robert Skinner D.D. 10 A sermon preached , p. 41. 11 Ibid. , p. 40. 12 Mark Kishlansky, ‘A whipper whipped: the sedition of William Prynne’, The Historical Journal , 56 (2013), 603–27 . Also see his ‘Martyrs’ tales’, Journal of British Studies , 53 (2014), 334–55 . 13 See P. Lake, ‘Joseph Hall, Robert Skinner and the language of moderation at the early Stuart court’, in Lori-Anne Ferrell and Peter McCullough (eds), The English Sermon
; who was central to Stuart diplomatic relations and ceremonial; and who was cognisant of the power and meaning that could be attached to palace rooms through the use of spatial protocols and material culture.4 It is this image of the queen that takes centre stage in this chapter, nuancing the male-dominated history FIELD 9781526142498 PRINT.indd 83 21/04/2020 11:54 84 Anna of Denmark of collecting and display at the early Stuart court and the traditional scholarly use of the Italianate as the benchmark of cultural erudition.5 This body of scholarship, including