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Author Hadfield, Andrew, author.

Title Lying in early modern English culture : from the Oath of supremacy to the Oath of allegiance / Andrew Hadfield
Edition First edition
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 368 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction. Being economical with the truth in early modern England -- I. Lying and the culture of oaths -- 1. The oath of supremacy -- 2. The oath of allegiance -- II. Modes of lying in early modern England -- 3. The religious culture of lying -- 4. Rhetoric, commonplacing, and poetics -- 5. Courtesy, lying, and politics -- 6. Testimony -- 7. Othello and the culture of lies between conscience and reputation
Summary Lying in Early Modern English Culture is a major study of ideas of truth and falsehood in early modern England from the advent of the Reformation to the aftermath of the failed Gunpowder Plot. The period is characterized by panic and chaos when few had any idea how religious, cultural, and social life would develop after the traumatic division of Christendom. While many saw the need for a secular power to define the truth, others declared that their allegiances belonged elsewhere. Accordingly, there was a constant battle between competing authorities for the right to declare what was the truth and so label opponents as liars. Issues of truth and lying were, therefore, a constant feature of everyday life and determined ideas of individual identity, politics, speech, sex, marriage, and social behaviour, as well as philosophy and religion. This book is a cultural history of truth and lying horn the 1530s to the 1610s, showing how lying needs to be understood in action as well as in theory. It concentrates on a series of particular events, reading them in terms of academic theories and more popular notions of lying, covering a wide range of material such as the trials of Anne Boleyn and Thomas More, the divorce of Frances Howard, and the murder of Anthony James by Annis and George Dell; works of literature such, as Othello, The Faerie Queene, A Mirror for Magistrates, and The Unfortunate Traveller; works of popular culture such as the herring pamphlet of 1597; and major writings by Castiglione, Montaigne, Erasmus, Luther, and Tyndale.-- Book jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-359) and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 13, 2017)
Subject Truthfulness and falsehood -- England -- History
Oaths -- England -- History -- Early works to 1800
Political culture -- England -- Early works to 1800
Church and state -- England -- Early works to 1800
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Truthfulness and falsehood
Church and state
Oaths
Political culture
Literary studies: general.
Literary studies: plays & playwrights.
History.
Literature.
England
Genre/Form History
Early works
Form Electronic book
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