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Cambridge University recently marked the 400th anniversary of the death of Henry Stuart, not without some irony (Henry associated himself with Oxford, and the fact that Cambridge had printed the first collection of elegies mourning the prince was felt as an ignoble sting by Oxonians), and their attempt to revive the prince hints at a central instability.
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Chovanec, K. (2020). Henry, Prince of Wales, and Britain’s Lost Renaissance. In: Pan-Protestant Heroism in Early Modern Europe. Early Modern Literature in History. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40705-6_3
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