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British Empire on the Eve of the Armada: Revisiting The Misfortunes of Arthur

British Empire on the Eve of the Armada: Revisiting The Misfortunes of Arthur British Empire on the Eve of the Armada: Revisiting The Misfortunes of Arthur by Curtis Perry AVID Armitage, in The Ideological Origins of the British Empire, argues that the dev elopment of the idea of em pire in Tudor En- D   gland was insepara bly bound up with the conceptual project of state formation.1 The word “empire” in the sixteen th cen tury could des- ignate indep endent or autonomous government (the possession of im- perium over one’s own territor y) as well as its more familiar modern sense of rule over an extensiv e, compound territor y comprising con- quered or otherwise annexed people. Ov erlap between these two mean- ings helps to explain the appeal, for the Tudors, of the idea of a British em pire: a compound state—comprising England, Scotland, w ales (and maybe Ireland)—deriv ed fro m the ancient Britain of Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia Regum Britanniae, over which the English mon- arch might rule without fear of outside papal or imperial interference. And the conceptual alliance between indep endence and expansionism also helps to explain the link, demo nstrated some time ago by Richard Helgerson, between the gro wth of England’s imperial ambitions http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Studies in Philology University of North Carolina Press

British Empire on the Eve of the Armada: Revisiting The Misfortunes of Arthur

Studies in Philology , Volume 108 (4) – Oct 13, 2011

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British Empire on the Eve of the Armada: Revisiting The Misfortunes of Arthur by Curtis Perry AVID Armitage, in The Ideological Origins of the British Empire, argues that the dev elopment of the idea of em pire in Tudor En- D   gland was insepara bly bound up with the conceptual project of state formation.1 The word “empire” in the sixteen th cen tury could des- ignate indep endent or autonomous government (the possession of im- perium over one’s own territor y) as well as its more familiar modern sense of rule over an extensiv e, compound territor y comprising con- quered or otherwise annexed people. Ov erlap between these two mean- ings helps to explain the appeal, for the Tudors, of the idea of a British em pire: a compound state—comprising England, Scotland, w ales (and maybe Ireland)—deriv ed fro m the ancient Britain of Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia Regum Britanniae, over which the English mon- arch might rule without fear of outside papal or imperial interference. And the conceptual alliance between indep endence and expansionism also helps to explain the link, demo nstrated some time ago by Richard Helgerson, between the gro wth of England’s imperial ambitions

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Published: Oct 13, 2011

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