‘Monarchy unnaccountable, is the worst sort of Tyranny.’
The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates, 1649
‘Women must be compatible companions but inferior’
The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce, 1663
‘We bring not innocence into the world but impurity’
Areopagitica, 1644
Arbella Stuart ballad
The True Lovers Knot Untied
A ‘Slobbering _____ with a tongue too _____ for his mouth’
[about James I] a ‘Slobbering idiot with a tongue too large for his mouth’ - Weldon
Renaissance humanism key focus
individuality, ambition, introspection, free will and autonomy
Rodrigo Borgia
Infamous pope known for his corruption, nepotism and scandalous lifestyle
Cesare Borgia
Inspired Machiavelli’s The Prince, abandoning his role as Cardinal to pursue a career as a military leader
Church’s view on werewolves
the reality of the werewolf is ‘essentially a rejection of two frightening notions: that God or the Devil can divorce a living person from the possibility of Heaven’ and ‘that a man can commit a sinful act for which he is not responsible.’ - Kratz
Animal transformations in classic literature
Because people exhibited the characteristics of an animal to an extreme degree
‘___-______ are the product of a natural super-abundance of ___________’
‘Men-wolves are the product of a natural super-abundance of Melancholie’ - James I in Daemonologie (1597)
Giovanna d’Aragona
Real life Duchess of Malfi, widowed at 19 in 1498
