EN 2633 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Body Politic, Letters Patent, Petrarch
9 Feb 2018
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1516; reigned 1553-1558): elder daughter of henry viii (reigned1509-1547) and his first wife, catherine of aragon; like her mother, mary remained a. Catholic, and after the break with rome her life was not very secure. 1554, she married philip ii of spain, who was later (1588) responsible for the attempted invasion of the spanish armada. 1533; reigned1558-1603): second daughter of henry viii and of his second wife, anne boleyn; became queen and returned england to protestantism after the death of her older half-sister mary in1558. She had received an excellent education and could speak. French and italian and read latin and greek. An accomplished writer, she translated, composed poetry and wrote many of her speeches. Bible - and as the object of secular, romantic love - the aloof chaste mistress that her courtiers could long for (as in the sonnets of petrarch). Her son, james, became king james i after the death of elizabeth in 1603.
