Elizabeth's glass : with "The glass of the Sinful Soul" (1544) by Elizabeth I, and "Epistle dedicatory" & "Conclusion" (1548) by John Bale / Marc Shell.
1993
DA356 .S54 1993eb
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Title
Elizabeth's glass : with "The glass of the Sinful Soul" (1544) by Elizabeth I, and "Epistle dedicatory" & "Conclusion" (1548) by John Bale / Marc Shell.
Author
Shell, Marc.
ISBN
0585003548 (electronic bk.)
9780585003542 (electronic bk.)
0803242166
9780803242166 (cl)
9780585003542 (electronic bk.)
0803242166
9780803242166 (cl)
Imprint
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©1993.
Language
English
Language Note
English.
Description
1 online resource (xv, 365 pages) : illustrations
Call Number
DA356 .S54 1993eb
System Control No.
(OCoLC)42328607
Summary
As a girl of eleven, Elizabeth I translated into English a poem by Marguerite of Navarre on incest, spiritual and physical. Four years later her translation, titled "The Glass of the Sinful Soul," was published by the Protestant reformer John Bale. However ingenuous Elizabeth may have been at eleven, she surely realized the implications of the tract when she permitted new editions in 1568, 1582, and 1590. Its bearing on her own family and her precarious hold on the throne was all too obvious when dissenters accused both her father, Henry VIII, and her mother, Ann Boleyn, of adultery, when her father had sought to annul his first marriage on grounds of incest, when her mother was accused by Henry of incest, and when Elizabeth herself was deemed a bastard. Making Elizabeth's little-known work readily available to today's scholars, Elizabeth's Glass includes a photographic reproduction of Elizabeth's manuscript and a modern transcription, as well as John Bale's additions to his 1548 edition. In an erudite and penetrating introduction, Marc Shell investigates the complex political, familial, theological, and ecclesiastical forces that made Elizabeth acutely conscious of incest and made her translation an emblem of a controversy that stormed throughout Reformation Europe
Note
Includes transcription of Elizabeth I's translation of Marguerite of Navarre's Le miroir de l'âme pécheresse.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-353) and index.
Access Note
Restrictions unspecified
Reproduction
Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
System Details Note
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. (http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212)
Source of Description
Print version record.
Added Author
Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603.
Bale, John, 1495-1563.
Marguerite, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of Navarre, 1492-1549. Miroir de l'âme pécheresse. English.
Bale, John, 1495-1563.
Marguerite, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of Navarre, 1492-1549. Miroir de l'âme pécheresse. English.
Available in Other Form
Print version: Shell, Marc. Elizabeth's glass. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©1993
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