Abstract
The poem of the young Hungarian born Parmenius is one of the first literary works to present a vision about the role of Queen Elizabeth in colonization, and to combine her eulogy and its feminine tropes with the Protestant propaganda on the justification of English territorial expansion. Coming from a warn-torn country and traveling across a religiously divided Europe, Parmenius connects England and the New World through the humanistic trope of the Golden Age, where the American continent—personified as a young maiden ravished by the Spanish—reaches out toward her sister England and invites her to introduce the bounties of her Queen.
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Stróbl, E. (2017). A Vision on Queen Elizabeth’s Role in Colonizing America: Stephen Parmenius’s De Navigatione (1582). In: Paranque, E., Probasco, N., Jowitt, C. (eds) Colonization, Piracy, and Trade in Early Modern Europe. Queenship and Power. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57159-1_9
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