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Wives, Captive Husbands, and Turks: The First Women Petitioners in Caroline England

Wives, Captive Husbands, and Turks: The First Women Petitioners in Caroline England The begng of the Bishops' Wars 1638 and of the Civil War a few years later have traditionally been seen as a liberatg moment English history. Movements and ideas that had been banned under the Laudian Anglican establishment flourished books and on the streets and changed the political landscape of England and the rest of Brita. Literary and social historians such as Ellen A. M'Arthur, Patricia Higgs, Simon Shepherd, Lawrence Stone, Margaret George, Keith Thomas, and others have therefore assumed that it was these wars that mobilized the first female petitioners England: their view, the women who petitioned the Long Parliament on 31 January and 4 February 1642 were the first women ever to use petitions for social and political protest--and they did so because of the social disorder and "Liberty" that the wars evitably produced. "The women's petitions of the sixteen-forties," wrote Shepherd, "seem to be a sudden manifestation of [Civil War] femism" (65). Before the Civil War, "recourse to prophecy [was] the only means by which most women could hope to dissemate their opions on public events" (Thomas 163). For Thomas, as for Higgs and others, pre-Civil War actions on the part of women exclusively came http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Explorations in Renaissance Culture Brill

Wives, Captive Husbands, and Turks: The First Women Petitioners in Caroline England

Explorations in Renaissance Culture , Volume 40 (1-2): 125 – Apr 20, 2014

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© Copyright 2014 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0098-2474
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Abstract

The begng of the Bishops' Wars 1638 and of the Civil War a few years later have traditionally been seen as a liberatg moment English history. Movements and ideas that had been banned under the Laudian Anglican establishment flourished books and on the streets and changed the political landscape of England and the rest of Brita. Literary and social historians such as Ellen A. M'Arthur, Patricia Higgs, Simon Shepherd, Lawrence Stone, Margaret George, Keith Thomas, and others have therefore assumed that it was these wars that mobilized the first female petitioners England: their view, the women who petitioned the Long Parliament on 31 January and 4 February 1642 were the first women ever to use petitions for social and political protest--and they did so because of the social disorder and "Liberty" that the wars evitably produced. "The women's petitions of the sixteen-forties," wrote Shepherd, "seem to be a sudden manifestation of [Civil War] femism" (65). Before the Civil War, "recourse to prophecy [was] the only means by which most women could hope to dissemate their opions on public events" (Thomas 163). For Thomas, as for Higgs and others, pre-Civil War actions on the part of women exclusively came

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Published: Apr 20, 2014

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