dc.contributor.author | Tosh., William Patrick | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-10-05T12:00:34Z | |
dc.date.available | 2015-10-05T12:00:34Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2013-12 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Tosh, W.P. 2013. Testimonies of affection and dispatches of intelligence: The letters of Anthony Bacon, 1558-1601. Queen Mary University of London. | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/9075 | |
dc.description | PhD | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | This thesis explores the affective and professional relationships that sustained the intelligence network of Anthony Bacon (1558-1601), a gentleman-traveller and spymaster for the earl of Essex. Through a series of interventions in the extensive Bacon papers in Lambeth Palace Library, I present four manuscript-based case studies that cast light on a host of relationship-paradigms particular to early modern English culture that are today poorly understood.
Chapter 1 focuses on Anthony Bacon’s relationship with the Puritan Nicholas Faunt, and argues for a new understanding of the language of ardent affection between men that acknowledges the influence on such language of Reformed theology. Chapter 2 explores the correspondence of Bacon with Anthony Standen, an imprisoned Catholic spy, and suggests that the early modern prison may have been a facilitating institution in the creation of instrumental friendship between men. Chapter 3 examines the Inns of Court. I argue that the Inns’ concern for the values of friendship was reflected in the widespread political patronage system that operated out of the four societies, a system that was recognised and manipulated by powerful men. In Chapter 4 I explore a context in which the influence of friendship networks was deleterious: the unstable and unhappy political secretariat of the earl of Essex. I argue that the earl’s outmoded concept of ardent service was as damaging to his own household as it was to his relationship with the queen. Taken as a whole, this thesis argues for a new awareness of the place of feeling and the role of friendship in our understanding of relationships between men in the sixteenth century. | en_US |
dc.description.sponsorship | AHRC studentship; Queen Mary Postgraduate Research Fund. | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | Queen Mary University of London | |
dc.subject | Electronic Engineering | en_US |
dc.subject | Video compression algorithms | en_US |
dc.subject | High Efficiency Video Coding | en_US |
dc.subject | video coding solutions | en_US |
dc.title | Testimonies of affection and dispatches of intelligence: The letters of Anthony Bacon, 1558-1601. | en_US |
dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
dc.rights.holder | The copyright of this thesis rests with the author and no quotation from it or information derived from it may be published without the prior written consent of the author | |
rioxxterms.funder | Default funder | en_US |
rioxxterms.identifier.project | Default project | en_US |