Broughton, M.E. (2021) The 'English Fury' at Mechelen, 1580. British Journal for Military History, 7 (2). pp. 166-173. ISSN 2057-0422
Abstract
The late sixteenth-century religious wars prompted a Protestant movement within the Elizabethan regime that sought state-sanctioned military intervention in aid of the Dutch rebels. Printed military news also became a popular genre during this period. This article seeks to re-examine the journalistic legacy of soldier-poet Thomas Churchyard through a close reading of his 1580 account of the English pillaging of Mechelen by a group of English mercenaries. Churchyard’s text was the product of his connections to interventionist statesmen and the widespread vilification of Spaniards. His pamphlet utilised popular motifs that vindicated religious violence and exploited inchoate notions of journalistic credibility.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2021 The Author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (Sheffield) > Department of History (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 20 Jul 2021 15:24 |
Last Modified: | 21 Jul 2021 06:00 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Goldsmiths, University of London |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.25602/GOLD.bjmh.v7i2.1560 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:176335 |