A Perceived Profusion of Vice: Assessing a "Scandalous' Period C1615-1625

政治丑闻令人震惊，令人欣喜，但它们在多大程度上是政治的东西，还是分散了人们对政治的注意力？正如“党派门”所表明的那样，对丑闻的反应可以塑造政治，但丑闻和腐败是一种偶然的观念。这个项目的中心是一个被认为充斥着腐败、性丑闻和金融鲁莽的舞台：1615年至1625年的詹姆斯一世宫廷。当时什么是腐败？雅可比王朝对“腐败”有多敏感？在双性恋国王统治时期，他们如何看待不规范的性行为？结合政治史、性学史、文学批评、人类学和最近的政治心理学实验，本文建立了不同群体如何看待“腐败”的朝廷和时代。另一个相互关联的目标是对这十年来所谓的丑闻激增提出问题。政治文化有什么独特之处？该项目对早期现代研究以及对这些始终存在的主题的持续辩论做出了重要贡献。描述

Political scandals shock and delight, but how far are they the stuff of politics or a distraction from it? As'Partygate' demonstrated, reactions to scandals can shape politics, yet scandal and corruption arecontingent sets of perceptions. This project centres on an arena supposedly rife with corruption, sexualscandal and financial recklessness: the Court of King James I, c.1615-1625. What was corrupt then? Howsensitive were Jacobeans to 'corruption'? How did they perceive non-normative sexuality during abisexual king's reign? Combining political history, history of sexuality, literary criticism, anthropology andrecent political psychology experiments, this thesis establishes how different groups perceived the'corrupt' court and era. An interrelated aim is to problematise the decade's supposed surge of scandals.What was distinct about the political culture? The project makes a vital contribution to early modernstudies, and to ongoing debates over these ever-present themes.3. Description