Part of The Apple-Zimmerman Series in Early Modern Culture, Tudor Court Culture (Selinsgrove: Selinsgrove Susquehanna University Press, 2010) is an interdisciplinary volume that examines the cultural history of the court and its possible interpretations from the early 1500s to the end of the reign of Elizabeth I. The history of Tudor court culture during the sixteenth century is a movement of the court beyond its physical confines out into the country so that courtliness becomes a state of mind, a way of behaving, a language, and a symbol. The first part of this collection investigates issues in relation to the court of Henry VIII: the ongoing negotiation of the discrepancies between the ideal and the real, desired and granted, imagined and perceived. The second part explores the changing conditions of the court and assesses the extent of the centrifugal influence of the court culture during the reign of Elizabeth I. The collection includes essays by Thomas Betteridge, Stefani Brusberg-Kiermeier, Jessica Malay, Ayako Kawanami, Aysha Pollnitz, Anna Riehl, Peter Sillitoe, and Sam Wood.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Anna Riehl and Thomas Betteridge
1. Courtly Pride and Christian Virtue: Utopia as a Guide to Speaking to Erasmus' "Half-Christian" "Turk": Sam Wood
2. Humanism and Court Culture in the Education of Tudor Royal Children: Aysha Pollnitz
3. The Tudor Court: Dust and Desire: Thomas Betteridge
4. "Where the Prince Lieth": Courtly Space and the Elizabethan Progresses: Peter Sillitoe
5. Like A Queen: The Influence of Elizabethan Court Structure on Women-Centered Households in the Early Modern Period: Jessica Malay
6. Courtliness and Poetry in Sidney, Lyly and Green: Ayako Kawanami
7. "Never shall my sad eies againe behold these pleasures": Aemilia Lanyer and Her Idealization of Tudor Court Life: Stefani Brusberg-Kiermeier
8. Persuading the Prince: Raleigh, Keymis, Chapman, and The Second Voyage to Guiana: Anna Riehl
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