| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 365 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Note |
Includes transcription of Elizabeth I's translation of Marguerite of Navarre's Le miroir de l'âme pécheresse. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-353) and index. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Summary |
As a girl of eleven, Elizabeth I translated into English a poem by Marguerite of Navarre on incest, spiritual and physical. Four years later her translation, titled "The Glass of the Sinful Soul," was published by the Protestant reformer John Bale. However ingenuous Elizabeth may have been at eleven, she surely realized the implications of the tract when she permitted new editions in 1568, 1582, and 1590. Its bearing on her own family and her precarious hold on the throne was all too obvious when dissenters accused both her father, Henry VIII, and her mother, Ann Boleyn, of adultery, when her father had sought to annul his first marriage on grounds of incest, when her mother was accused by Henry of incest, and when Elizabeth herself was deemed a bastard. Making Elizabeth's little-known work readily available to today's scholars, Elizabeth's Glass includes a photographic reproduction of Elizabeth's manuscript and a modern transcription, as well as John Bale's additions to his 1548 edition. In an erudite and penetrating introduction, Marc Shell investigates the complex political, familial, theological, and ecclesiastical forces that made Elizabeth acutely conscious of incest and made her translation an emblem of a controversy that stormed throughout Reformation Europe. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603 -- Writing skill.
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Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603. |
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Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603. Glass of the sinful soul. |
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Marguerite, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of Navarre, 1492-1549. Miroir de l'âme pécheresse. English. |
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Christian poetry, French -- Translations into English -- History and criticism.
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Christian poetry, French. |
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Christian poetry, French -- Translations into English.
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Queens -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Queens. |
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Great Britain. |
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Biographies.
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Great Britain -- Kings and rulers -- Biography. |
| Chronological Term |
1450-1600 |
| Indexed Term |
French poetry |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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Translations.
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Biographies.
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Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603.
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Bale, John, 1495-1563.
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Marguerite, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of Navarre, 1492-1549.
Miroir de l'âme pécheresse. English.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Shell, Marc. Elizabeth's glass. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©1993 0803242166 (DLC) 92005554 (OCoLC)25552317 |
| ISBN |
0585003548 (electronic book) |
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9780585003542 (electronic book) |
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0803242166 |
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9780803242166 (cl) |
| Sudoc No. |
U5001 T304 -1993 |
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