The Discourse of Legitimacy is a wide-ranging, synoptic study of England's conflicted political cultures in the period between the Protestant Reformation and th
In this study, Kari Boyd McBride defines 'country house discourse' as a network of fictions that articulated and mediated early modern concerns about the right
Includes contributions from key early modern historians, this book uses and critiques the notion of the public sphere to produce a new account of England in the
In this study, Kari Boyd McBride defines 'country house discourse' as a network of fictions that articulated and mediated early modern concerns about the right
This study considers the figure of the bastard in the context of analogies of the family and the state in early modern England. The trope of illegitimacy, more