- Title
- Dispensing quails, mincemeat, leaven: Katherine Parr's patronage of the paraphrases of Erasmus
- Creator
- Pender, Patricia
- Relation
- Material Cultures of Early Modern Women's Writing p. 36-54
- Relation
- Early Modern Literature in History
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137342430_3
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2014
- Description
- As a prominent patron of humanist scholarship and Reformed religion, and the author of several devotional works in her own right, Katherine Parr exerted a significant influence on the English Reformation – as several scholars have begun to explore. Yet to date, it is the texts that most legibly bear her authorial signature that have attracted critical attention. Parr’s patronage, by contrast, has long been widely celebrated as historical fact and at the same time surprisingly ignored as a social, literary and mechanical process. In the Acts and Monuments (1563), for instance, John Foxe paints a triumphal Protestant portrait of the queen as the period’s ‘only patroness of the professors of the truth’. And Parr’s recent biographer Susan James goes so far as to say that Katherine was ‘by conviction, by influence and by actions the first true queen of the English Reformation’. According to James Kelsey McConica’s 1965 portrayal of the period, Parr’s generation: "found appropriate patronage, not in a Machiavellian Secretary of State, but in a noble lady of irenic temperament and sincere attachment to humanist learning. ... It is in her circle, which revives the traditions of her royal predecessors Margaret Beaufort and Catherine of Aragon, that the Erasmian spirit finds new shelter and influential support."
- Subject
- English literature; women authors; women and literature
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1066224
- Identifier
- uon:18052
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781137342423
- Language
- eng
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