Sederi Yearbook 22

 

Leticia Álvarez Recio, “Pro-match literature and royal supremacy: The case of Michael Du Val’s The Spanish English Rose (1622).” SEDERI 22 (2012): 7-27.

 

DOI: https://doi.org/10.34136/sederi.2012.1                                                      Download PDF

 

Abstract

In the years 1622-1623, at the climax of the negotiations for the Spanish-Match, King James enforced censorship on any works critical of his diplomatic policy and promoted the publication of texts that sided with his views on international relations, even though such writings may have sometimes gone beyond the propagandistic aims expected by the monarch. This is the case of Michael Du Val’s The Spanish-English Rose (1622), a political tract elaborated within court circles to promote the Anglo-Spanish alliance. This article analyzes its role in producing an alternative to the religious and imperial discourse inherited from the Elizabethan age. It also considers the intertextual relations between Du Val’s tract and other contemporary works in order to determine its part within the discursive network of the Anglican faith and political absolutism. The reasons why it may have exerted a negative influence on both the English and Spanish royal households are explored as well.

Keywords: Spanish Match; pro-match literature; anti-match literature; political absolutism; Jacobean church.

 

 

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