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Texas A&M University, 2020

Miles Kerr-Peterson. A Protestant Lord in James VI’s Scotland: Georg Keith, fifth Earl of Marisch... more Miles Kerr-Peterson. A Protestant Lord in James VI’s Scotland: Georg Keith, fifth Earl of Marischal (1554–1623). Woodbridge, UK: The Boydell Press, 2019. xvi + 237 pp. + 8 illus. $99.00. Review by Renée A. Bricker, University of North Georgia

Succeeding to the English throne in 1558, she was the third woman monarch in the nation's his... more Succeeding to the English throne in 1558, she was the third woman monarch in the nation's history. The role of English monarch-which involved being commander in chief, head of the English Church, and ruler of the royal court, with all its intrigues-was intended for a man ruling among men, and women rulers before Elizabeth had bestowed their power on husbands. Resisting this pattern, Elizabeth not only endured a monarch but flourished as a leader and cultural figurehead, inspiring the Golden Age of English literature, the Age of Discovery, and the Age of Reformation in English religious life. This Norton Critical Edition provides a diverse and extensive selection of authors (including the Queen herself) and carefully annotated works. The works are organized chronologically to cover the forty-four years of Elizabeth's reign, allowing readers to explore not only the literary and aesthetic qualities that make these writings noteworthy but also the range of political, social, cultural, and historical concerns that prompted their creation. The editors have assembled a rich, thematically organized collection of commentary and criticism for Elizabeth I and Her Age. From Raphael Holinshed's, Sir Francis Bacon's, and Agnes Strickland's early accounts of the Queen to Natalie Mears on Elizabeth I's strategies for rule and Thomas Betteridge on the Queen in film, the twenty-five diverse views of Elizabeth I herein are sure to promote lively classroom discussion.

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 1983

Journal of American History, 2019

Male accessory-gland proteins are known to affect female physiology in multiple ways, maximizing ... more Male accessory-gland proteins are known to affect female physiology in multiple ways, maximizing a male's reproductive success-often at a cost to the female. Due to this inherent sexual conflict, accessory gland proteins (ACPs) are generally studied in separate-sex organisms. While ACPs have also been identified in simultaneous hermaphrodites as an important part of post-copulatory sexual selection processes, their study has lagged behind that of ACPs in organisms with separate sexes. In the great pond snail, Lymnaea stagnalis, an ACP affecting egg laying, ovipostatin, is produced in the prostate gland. Based on the published partial Ovipostatin gene sequence, we now provide the complete mRNA and gene sequences, and confirm that gene expression is prostate gland-specific. More importantly we observed a significant increase in Ovipostatin expression in sperm donors after ejaculation. Ovipostatin gene expression did not differ between donors giving their ejaculate first (primary donors) and those donating an ejaculate after having been inseminated (secondary donors). These observations support a role for ovipostatin in reproduction and highlight the importance of standardizing the time point when measuring expression levels of ACPs.

Renaissance Quarterly, 2006

Chapuys claimed that Anne was deeply involved in the intrigues that destroyed Thomas Cardinal Wol... more Chapuys claimed that Anne was deeply involved in the intrigues that destroyed Thomas Cardinal Wolsey in 1529. Warnicke dismissed Chapuys’s letters as biased. Ives judiciously weighs the strengths and limitations of Chapuys’s dispatches and concludes that “to dismiss them as inherently unreliable is to accept that we shall never know. . . . It certainly does not allow us to assume that if their evidence is rejected, this establishes that she was not involved!” (56–57). Controversy over Anne’s life and downfall will not go away, if only because at crucial points we simply lack hard evidence. Perhaps Henry VIII really did believe that Anne had seduced him to marry her by means of sorcery — hence his conviction that because she had given him no sons, God must have damned their marriage from the start. But even if Henry accepted such a rationale after Anne’s miscarriage of a male fetus in January 1536, we still know nothing certain about the origins of the plot to destroy her. Ives makes Thomas Cromwell the Machiavellian architect of a double conspiracy, one designed to bring down both Queen Anne and Cromwell’s enemies in the king’s privy chamber. Ives’s account of this extraordinary coup (316–18 and 319–29) is at times acrobatic. When he calls Cromwell’s daring scheme “the gymnastic feat of a double reversed twist” (317), he may be describing his own dive off the springboard of reason. But at least he lays out the evidence in such a way that readers may see by how much his version meets the test of historical probability. When Ives describes Anne herself — her personality, spirituality, and aesthetic sensibility — he is utterly convincing. If Anne Boleyn was the most controversial queen in English history, she was also the most brilliant and the most accomplished, thanks to her superior education and training at the courts of Margaret of Austria and Queen Claude of France: culturally, Anne Boleyn embodied the best of the French Renaissance in England. DALE HOAK College of William & Mary

Journal of British Studies, 2013

This dissertation examines how late Tudor government strove toward national cohesion amid religio... more This dissertation examines how late Tudor government strove toward national cohesion amid religiopolitical diversity. Strategies of fear and love galvanized resistance and security amongst groups. The 1584 Bond of Association was the apogee of an effort to create unity through ...

The American Historical Review, 2005