Nicolaus Mameranus : : poetry and politics at the court of Mary Tudor / / Matthew Tibble.

• Superior document: Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions ; 220
• VerfasserIn: Tibble, Matthew,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : BRILL,, 2020.
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions ; 220.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

In Nicolaus Mameranus , Matthew Tibble recovers an obscure but revealing body of poetry and political commentary that the Imperial poet laureate Nicolaus Mameranus produced for the court of Mary I of England during the visit of her husband, Philip II of Spain, in 1557. Where most studies portray this period as one of decline and decay, Tibble argues instead that, for many Catholics, 1557 was characterised by hope and a sense of progression. He argues that the royal couple successfully re-forged their image as the embodiment of a political union that many considered the foundation of a new Anglo-Habsburg dynasty, and, equally successfully, represented their dual monarchy as a bastion in the fight to reform Catholic Christianity in response to the Protestant Reformation.

Table of Contents

The last laureate of Charles V : a new approach to the writing of Nicolaus Mameranus -- The 1554 Epistles : prospecting England's place in the Habsburg Empire -- Celebrating the marriage of Philip and Mary : the political rhetoric of printed Epithalamia -- Reassessing 1557 : the reunion of the Anglo-Habsburg Monarchy -- Counselling the queen : princely humanism and the five psalms of David -- Reformation on the road : Catholicism between Cologne and London -- Remembering a queen : Mary Tudor's Habsburg funeral ceremony -- Appendices. Beso las manos -- Gratulatorium -- Psalmi Davidis quinque -- Oratio Dominica -- Bibliography of the writing of Nicolaus Mameranus.