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- Title
Religion, Household-State Authority, and the Defense of "Collapsed Ladies" in Early Jacobean England.
- Authors
Peters, Christine
- Abstract
This article argues that specific features among the early Jacobean Catholic community enabled a reevaluation of the obedience owed by wives to their husbands and of the household-state analogy. At the forefront of this development was a new category of Catholic "collapsed ladies" who actively rejected state Protestantism. Such women were potentially disruptive in a period in which the stability of the household-state analogy was being tested by recusancy and by scrupulous interpretations of the Oath of Allegiance. From a loyalist perspective, and building on Catholic understandings of reason, conscience, and humanist education, it was possible in 1609 for a female-voiced manuscript to corrode the idea that a man's status in the state depended on how he governed his wife, and that a wife was subject to her husband in matters of conscience. The manuscript writer's assumed location in St.-Omer suggests a possible connection with Mary Ward and her circle.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; ENGLAND; ENGLISH Catholics; REIGN of James I, Great Britain, 1603-1625; CHURCH &; state; SPOUSES' legal relationship; HOUSEHOLDS; OATH of allegiance, 1606; SEVENTEENTH century
- Publication
Sixteenth Century Journal, 2014, Vol 45, Issue 3, p631
- ISSN
0361-0160
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1086/scj24245957