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Professor Natalie Mears' Outputs (10)

The Creation of State Anniversaries: James VI and I and the Politics of Thanksgiving (2024)
Journal Article
Williamson, P., & Mears, N. (online). The Creation of State Anniversaries: James VI and I and the Politics of Thanksgiving. The English Historical Review, Article ceae205. https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/ceae205

Religious anniversaries ordered by the state—by the monarch, royal council or parliament—were observed in England and Ireland from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. These have been studied chiefly as occasions for special sermons and popul... Read More about The Creation of State Anniversaries: James VI and I and the Politics of Thanksgiving.

Memorials of Queen Elizabeth I in early Stuart London (2021)
Journal Article
Mears, N. (2022). Memorials of Queen Elizabeth I in early Stuart London. The Seventeenth Century, 37(1), 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1080/0268117x.2020.1867626

At least thirty–eight memorials were erected to Elizabeth I in London parish churches between c. 1606 and c.1633. Though they have been interpreted as critiques of Jacobean foreign policy, this conclusion is not fully supported by extant evidence reg... Read More about Memorials of Queen Elizabeth I in early Stuart London.

James I and Gunpowder treason day (2020)
Journal Article
Williamson, P., & Mears, N. (2021). James I and Gunpowder treason day. Historical Journal, 64(2), 185-210. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0018246x20000497

The assumed source of the annual early-modern English commemoration of Gunpowder treason day on 5 November – and its modern legacy, ‘Guy Fawkes day’ or ‘Bonfire night’ – has been an act of parliament in 1606. This article reveals the existence of ear... Read More about James I and Gunpowder treason day.

The culture of fasting in early Stuart parliaments (2020)
Journal Article
Mears, N. (2020). The culture of fasting in early Stuart parliaments. Parliamentary History, 39(3), 423-441. https://doi.org/10.1111/1750-0206.12522

The fasts, proposed and observed by parliament in the first half of the seventeenth century, have always been defined as opportunities for propaganda. This article focuses instead on their cultural and religious meanings: why MPs believed that the ac... Read More about The culture of fasting in early Stuart parliaments.

The ‘holy days’ of Queen Elizabeth I (2020)
Journal Article
Mears, N., & Williamson, P. (2020). The ‘holy days’ of Queen Elizabeth I. History, 105(365), 201-228. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229x.12971

The annual celebrations of the accession day and birthday of Queen Elizabeth I are a familiar subject in studies of her reign, yet their beginnings, status and purpose have remained uncertain. By examining revisions of the calendar of the Church of E... Read More about The ‘holy days’ of Queen Elizabeth I.

Courts, courtiers and culture in Tudor England (2003)
Journal Article
Mears, N. (2003). Courts, courtiers and culture in Tudor England. Historical Journal, 46(3), 703-722. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0018246x03003212

Geoffrey Elton's model of Tudor politics, which emphasized the importance of political institutions and which dominated our understanding of Tudor politics for much of the second half of the twentieth century, has been challenged by a number of histo... Read More about Courts, courtiers and culture in Tudor England.

Counsel, public debate, and queenship : John Stubbs’s 'The discoverie of a gaping gulf', 1579 (2001)
Journal Article
Mears, N. (2001). Counsel, public debate, and queenship : John Stubbs’s 'The discoverie of a gaping gulf', 1579. Historical Journal, 44(3), 629-650. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0018246x01001947

John Stubbs's controversial pamphlet against Elizabeth's proposed marriage with Francis, duke of Anjou, The discoverie of a gaping gulf (1579), has conventionally been seen - with Edmund Spenser's The shepheardes calendar and Philip Sidney's letter t... Read More about Counsel, public debate, and queenship : John Stubbs’s 'The discoverie of a gaping gulf', 1579.