Medieval Memory and Legacy in the Cultural Politics of Tudor England

本论文将通过档案、建筑和物质文化证据的跨学科方法，调查1485年后都铎王朝继承的中世纪政治和文化遗产的性质。它将分析亨利七世和亨利八世如何在玫瑰战争期间解开他们混合的植物网祖先，分裂为兰卡斯特式和约克式的王室主张，以及这一过程如何产生16世纪后期发展起来的熟悉而独特的都铎王朝形象。重要主题将包括约克人和兰卡斯特尔人遗产的智力和物质表现，以及这些遗产如何帮助形成都铎王朝。都铎王朝的君主们利用这种遗产的哪些具体特征来抵抗王朝叛乱，或者通过血缘和婚姻将亲属融入他们不断扩大的皇冠和家族权力，这种剥削是如何影响皇家和国家形象、建筑以及视觉或书面文化的形成的？

The thesis will investigate the nature of the medieval political and cultural legacy inherited by the Tudormonarchs after 1485 through an interdisciplinary approach to archival, architectural, and material culturalevidence. It will analyse how Henry VII and Henry VIII disentangled their mixed Plantagenet ancestry,factionalised into Lancastrian and Yorkist royal claims during the Wars of the Roses, and how that processgenerated the familiar and distinct imagery of Tudor power developed during the later sixteenth century.Important themes will include the intellectual and physical representation of Yorkist and Lancastrianheritage, and how those helped to shape Tudor rule. What specific features of that legacy did the Tudormonarchs exploit in resisting dynastic rebellion, or integrating relatives by blood and marriage into theirexpanding Crown and family power, and how did that exploitation influence the formation of royal andnational imagery, buildings, and visual or written culture?