Religion, Household-State Authority, and the Defense of "Collapsed Ladies" in Early Jacobean England
This article argues that specific features among the early Jacobean Catholic community enabled a reevaluation of the obedience owed by wives to their husbands and of the household-state analogy. At the forefront of this development was a new category of Catholic "collapsed ladies" who acti...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, Inc.
2014
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The sixteenth century journal
Year: 2014, Volume: 45, Issue: 3, Pages: 631-657 |
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| Summary: | This article argues that specific features among the early Jacobean Catholic community enabled a reevaluation of the obedience owed by wives to their husbands and of the household-state analogy. At the forefront of this development was a new category of Catholic "collapsed ladies" who actively rejected state Protestantism. Such women were potentially disruptive in a period in which the stability of the household-state analogy was being tested by recusancy and by scrupulous interpretations of the Oath of Allegiance. From a loyalist perspective, and building on Catholic understandings of reason, conscience, and humanist education, it was possible in 1609 for a female-voiced manuscript to corrode the idea that a man's status in the state depended on how he governed his wife, and that a wife was subject to her husband in matters of conscience. The manuscript writer's assumed location in St.-Omer suggests a possible connection with Mary Ward and her circle. |
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| ISSN: | 2326-0726 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The sixteenth century journal
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