Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in
Book cover

Pan-Protestant Heroism in Early Modern Europe pp 163–208Cite as

Palgrave Macmillan

“A League That Shall Not End till Thames and Rhine Leave off to Run”: Dreams of an Anglo-German Protestant Empire

  • Chapter
  • First Online:

  • 110 Accesses

Part of the book series: Early Modern Literature in History ((EMLH))

Abstract

The ceremony of the marriage between Elizabeth Stuart, James’s only daughter, and the German Elector Prince Frederick V took place on February 14, 1613. It was a lavish affair, the most extravagant of James’s reign and according to a recent monograph devoted to the marriage, “the pinnacle of Protestant European festival” (Smart and Wade, “The Palatine Wedding of 1613,” 21). In all, the masques, fireworks, and feigned sea-battles commissioned by the court to commemorate the union cost over 93,000 pounds, nearly bankrupting the monarchy. The celebrations lasted for five days in London and were extended for months on the couple’s parade through Protestant lands and back to Heidelberg.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution.

Chapter
USD   29.95
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
eBook
USD   39.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book
USD   54.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book
USD   54.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Learn about institutional subscriptions

References

  • Allyne, Robert. Teares of Joy Shed at the Happy Departure from Great Britain. London, 1613.

    Google Scholar 

  • Alting, Heinrch. A Votive for the Auspicial Government of the Most High and Mightie Prince and Lord, L. Frederick the V. Palatine of Rhene, translated by William Walker. London, 1615.

    Google Scholar 

  • Bernofsky, Susan. “Schleiermacher’s Translation Theory and Varieties of Foreignization.” The Translator 3 (1997): 175–192.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Bevan, Bryan. “King James and the Union.” The Contemporary Review 268 (1996): 95.

    Google Scholar 

  • The Booke of the Common Prayer and Administracion of the Sacramentes, and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Churche. London, 1549.

    Google Scholar 

  • Broad, Jacqueline, and Karen Green. A History of Women’s Political Thought in Europe, 1400–1700. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.

    Book  Google Scholar 

  • Burke, Peter, and R. Po-chia Hsia, eds. Cultural Translation in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

    Google Scholar 

  • Butler, Martin. The Stuart Masque and Political Court Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.

    Google Scholar 

  • Calcagno, Rebecca. “A Matter of Precedence: Britain, Germany, and the Palatine Match.” In The Palatine Wedding of 1613: Protestant Alliance and Court Festival, edited by Sarah Smart and Mara R. Wade, 205–242. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz in Kommission, 2013.

    Google Scholar 

  • Campion, Thomas. A Relation of the Late Royall Entertainment Given by the Right Honorable the Lord Knowles […] Whereunto Is Annexed the Description, Speeches, and Songs of the Lords Maske. London, 1613.

    Google Scholar 

  • Chamberlain, John. The Letters of John Chamberlain, 2 vols., edited by Norman Egbert McClure. Philadelphia: The American Philosophical Society, 1939.

    Google Scholar 

  • Chapman, George. The Memorable Masque of the Two Honourable Houses or Innes of Court. London, 1614.

    Google Scholar 

  • Chovanec, Kevin. “The British Pharaoh? James I and VI and Internationalist Religious Writing at the Wedding of Friedrich V and Elizabeth Stuart.” The Seventeenth Century Journal 30 (2015): 391–409.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Crouch, Patricia. “Patronage and Competing Visions of Virginia in George Chapman’s The Memorable Masque (1613).” English Literary Renaissance 40 (2010): 393–426.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Curran, Kevin. “James I and Fictional Authority at the Palatine Wedding Celebrations.” Renaissance Studies 20 (2006): 51–67.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Curran, Kevin. Marriage, Performance, and Politics at the Jacobean Court. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2009.

    Google Scholar 

  • Davis, Kathleen. “Continuity and Change in Literary Advice on Marriage.” In Marriage and Society: Studies in the Social History of Marriage, edited by R. B. Outhwaite, 58–80. London: Europa, 1981.

    Google Scholar 

  • Daye, Anne. “‘Graced with Measures’: Dance as an International Language in the Masques of 1613.” In The Palatine Wedding of 1613: Protestant Alliance and Court Festival, edited by Sarah Smart and Mara R. Wade, 289–318. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz in Kommission, 2013.

    Google Scholar 

  • De Bry, Johann Theodore. Abriss und Beschreibung zwoer Triumph. Oppenheim, 1613.

    Google Scholar 

  • De Franchis, Joannes Maria. Of the Most Auspicatious Marriage. London, 1613.

    Google Scholar 

  • Donne, John. “An Epithalamion, or Marriage Song on the Lady Elizabeth and Count Palatine Being Married on St Valentine’s Day.” In The Complete English Poems, edited by A. J. Smith, 135–138. New York: Penguin, 1996.

    Google Scholar 

  • Dubrow, Heather. A Happier Eden: The Politics of Marriage in the Stuart Epithalamium. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1990.

    Google Scholar 

  • Elizabeth I. Elizabeth I: Collected Works, edited by Leah S. Marcus, Janel Mueller, and Mary Beth Rose. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002.

    Google Scholar 

  • Epithalamia. Sive Lusus Palatini in nuptias celsissimi principis Domini Friderici Comitis Palatini ad Rhenum, &c., et serenissimae Elisabethae. Oxford, 1613.

    Google Scholar 

  • Ginzel, Christof. Poetry, Politics and Promises of Empire: Prophetic Rhetoric in the English and Neo-Latin Epithalamia on the Occasion of the Palatine Marriage in 1613. Göttingen: Bonn University Press, 2009.

    Book  Google Scholar 

  • Gömöri, George. “‘A Memorable Wedding’: The Literary Reception of the Wedding of the Princess Elizabeth and Frederick of Pfalz.” JES 34 (2004): 215–224.

    Google Scholar 

  • Heywood, Thomas. A Marriage Triumphe Solemnized in an Epithalamium. London, 1613.

    Google Scholar 

  • Hieronymus. Epistulae, volume 54, edited by J. Divjak. Turnhoust: Brepols Publishers, 2010. http://clt.brepolis.net/LLTA/pages/TextSearch.aspx?key=PHIER0620_.

  • Hubach, Hans. “Of Lions and Leopards: Palatine Self-Representation in the Triumphal Entry at Heidelberg.” In The Palatine Wedding of 1613: Protestant Alliance and Court Festival, edited by Sarah Smart and Mara R. Wade, 205–242. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz in Kommission, 2013.

    Google Scholar 

  • Jonson, Ben. B. Ion His Part of King Iames His Royall and Magnificent Entertainment. London, 1603.

    Google Scholar 

  • Kathman, David. “‘Smith, William (c.1550–1618).” In Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004; online edition, October 2006. http://www.oxforddnb.com.libproxy.lib.unc.edu/view/article/25922.

  • Lewalski, Barbara. Writing Women in Jacobean Britain. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 1993.

    Google Scholar 

  • Limon, Jerzy. The Masque of Stuart Culture. Newark, NJ: Delaware University Press, 1990.

    Google Scholar 

  • Lindley, David. “Courtly Play: The Politics of Chapman’s The Memorable Maske.” In The Stuart Courts, edited by Eveline Cruickshanks, 43–58. Stroud: Sutton, 2000.

    Google Scholar 

  • Macfarlane, Alan. Marriage and Love in England: Modes of Reproduction, 1300–1840. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.

    Google Scholar 

  • The Mariage of Prince Frederick, and the Kings Daughter, the Lady Elizabeth, upon Shrove-Sunday Last. London, 1613.

    Google Scholar 

  • Maxwell, James. An English-Royall Pedegree Common to the Two Most Noble Princes Lately Married. London, 1613.

    Google Scholar 

  • McClure, Iain. “The Sea-Fight on the Thames: Performing the Ideology of a Pan-Protestant Crusade on the Eve of the Palatine Wedding.” In The Palatine Wedding of 1613: Protestant Alliance and Court Festival, edited by Sarah Smart and Mara R. Wade, 267–288. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz in Kommission, 2013.

    Google Scholar 

  • McEachern, Claire. The Poetics of English Nationhood, 1590–1612. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

    Google Scholar 

  • McGowne, Margaret M. “‘Les Triomphes de Jason’: A Myth Renewed in 1613.” In The Palatine Wedding of 1613: Protestant Alliance and Court Festival, edited by Sarah Smart and Mara R. Wade, 463–478. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz in Kommission, 2013.

    Google Scholar 

  • Miller, Jaroslav. “Between Nationalism and European Pan-Protestantism.” In The Palatine Wedding of 1613: Protestant Alliance and Court Festival, edited by Sarah Smart and Mara R. Wade, 61–82. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz in Kommission, 2013.

    Google Scholar 

  • Murdoch, Steve, ed. Scotland and the Thirty Years War, 1618–1648. Leiden: Brill, 2001.

    Google Scholar 

  • Murdoch, Steve, and Andrew Mackillop, eds. Fighting for Identity: Scottish Military Experience c. 1550–1900. Leiden: Brill, 2002.

    Google Scholar 

  • Nixon, Anthony. Great Brittaines Generall Ioyes. London, 1613.

    Google Scholar 

  • Norbrook, David. “‘The Masque of Truth’: Court Entertainments and International Protestant Politics in the Early Stuart Period.” The Seventeenth Century 1 (1986): 81–110.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Norbrook, David. Poetry and Politics in the English Renaissance. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.

    Book  Google Scholar 

  • O’Brien, Mattew. “‘Admirable Service’: William Trumbull and the Palatine Couple as Icons of the International Calvinist Community.” In The Palatine Wedding of 1613: Protestant Alliance and Court Festival, edited by Sarah Smart and Mara R. Wade, 83–112. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz in Kommission, 2013.

    Google Scholar 

  • O’Callaghan, Michelle. The ‘Shepheard’s Nation’: Jacobean Spenserians and Early Stuart Political Culture, 1612–1625. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.

    Book  Google Scholar 

  • Opitz, Martin. An Oration to the Most Illustrious and Mightie Prince Frederick King of Bohemia. London, 1620.

    Google Scholar 

  • Palladis Posaun vom Triumph Jasonis. Heidelberg, 1613.

    Google Scholar 

  • Parr, Anthony. “Nixon, Anthony (fl. 1592–1616).” In Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, 2004; online edition, September 2014. http://www.oxforddnb.com.libproxy.lib.unc.edu/view/article/20206.

  • Parry, Graham. The Golden Age Restor’d: The Culture of the Stuart Court, 1603–42. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1981.

    Google Scholar 

  • Pietzsch, Gerhard. Quellen und Forschungen zur Geschichte der Musik am Kurpfälzischen Hof zu Heidelberg bis 1622. Mainz: Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, 1963.

    Google Scholar 

  • Prior, Charles W. A. Defining the Jacobean Church. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.

    Google Scholar 

  • Pritchard, Allan. “George Wither: The Poet as Prophet.” Studies in Philology 59 (1962): 211–230.

    Google Scholar 

  • Schleiermacher, Friedrich. “Über die verschiedenen Methoden des Übersetzens.” In Das Problem des Übersetzens, edited by Hans Joachim Störig, 38–70. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft,1963.

    Google Scholar 

  • Smart, Sarah. “From Garter Knight to Second David.” In The Palatine Wedding of 1613: Protestant Alliance and Court Festival, edited by Sarah Smart and Mara R. Wade, 169–204. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz in Kommission, 2013.

    Google Scholar 

  • Smart, Sarah, and Mara R. Wade. “The Palatine Wedding of 1613: Protestant Alliance and Court Festival. An Introduction.” In The Palatine Wedding of 1613: Protestant Alliance and Court Festival, edited by Sarah Smart and Mara R. Wade, 13–60. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz in Kommission, 2013.

    Google Scholar 

  • Smith, David. A History of the Modern British Isles, 1603–1707. Oxford: Blackwell, 1998.

    Google Scholar 

  • Stone, Lawrence. The Family, Sex and Marriage in England, 1500–1800. New York: Harper & Row, 1977.

    Google Scholar 

  • Symonds, William. Virginia. A Sermon Preached at White-Chappel. London, 1609.

    Google Scholar 

  • Taylor, Augustine. Epithlamium upon the All-Desired Nuptials. London, 1613.

    Google Scholar 

  • Taylor, John. An Englishmans Love to Bohemia. Dort, 1620.

    Google Scholar 

  • Todd, Margo. Christian Humanism and the Puritan Social Order. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.

    Google Scholar 

  • Tufte, Virginia. The Poetry of Marriage: The Epithalamium in Europe and Its Development in England. Los Angeles: Tinnon-Brown, 1970.

    Google Scholar 

  • Von Rusdorf, Johann Joachim. Serenissimis Celsissimis ac Potentissimis Principibus. Heidelberg, 1613.

    Google Scholar 

  • Wade, Mara R. “Dynasty at Work: Danish Cultural Exchange with England.” In The Palatine Wedding of 1613: Protestant Alliance and Court Festival, edited by Sarah Smart and Mara R. Wade, 479–514. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz in Kommission, 2013.

    Google Scholar 

  • Walter, Frederick. Geschichte des Theaters und der Musik am Kurpfälzischen Hofe. Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel,1898.

    Google Scholar 

  • Warhafft und eigentliche Erzehlung Des Hochzeitlichen Fests… Köln, 1613.

    Google Scholar 

  • Willet, Andrew. Tractatus de Salomonis Nuptiis. Heidelberg, 1613.

    Google Scholar 

  • Willet, Andrew. A Treatise of Salomons Mariage. London, 1613.

    Google Scholar 

  • Wither, George. Epthalamia: or Nuptiall Poems upon the Most Blessed and Happie Mariage. London, 1613.

    Google Scholar 

  • Yates, Frances. The Rosicrucian Enlightenment. London: Routledge, 2003.

    Book  Google Scholar 

  • Ziegler, Georgianna. “Devising a Queen: Elizabeth Stuart’s Representation in the Emblematic Tradition.” Emblematica 14 (2005): 155–179.

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Christian Brothers University, Memphis, TN, USA

    Kevin Chovanec

Authors
  1. Kevin Chovanec
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Kevin Chovanec .

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 2020 The Author(s)

About this chapter

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this chapter

Chovanec, K. (2020). “A League That Shall Not End till Thames and Rhine Leave off to Run”: Dreams of an Anglo-German Protestant Empire. 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_4

Download citation

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Search

Navigation