The world the English (and Welsh, Scots, Irish) created between the mid-15th and the mid-18th centuries
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
The Mermaid and the Hare
This placard denounced Mary Queen of Scots and Bothwell soon after the Darnley murder, and certainly suggests a popular reaction to the murder in Scotland if not a fully developed public sphere there in the mid-sixteenth century.
Newton Key, Professor emeritus, Eastern Illinois University, is co-author of Early Modern England, 3rd ed. 2020, and co-editor of Sources and Debates in English History, 2nd ed., 2009. Follow on Academia, or Twitter,
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