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T1 Censorship and circulation of anti-catholic images in jacobean England: a case study of the grindstone satire
A1 Fernández García, Diego
A2 Universidad de Valladolid. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras
K1 Jacobean England
K1 Anti-Catholic Satire
K1 Censorship
K1 Grindstone Engraving
K1 Visual Propaganda
K1 Black Legend
K1 Inglaterra Jacobina
K1 Sátira Anticatólica
K1 Censura
K1 Grabado Grindstone
K1 Propaganda Visual
K1 Leyenda Negra
K1 5701.11 Enseñanza de Lenguas
AB This dissertation re-examines the 1614 ‘Grindstone’ engraving in which King James I grinds Pope Paul V’s nose to “lecture” him, placing it within the religious and diplomatic tensions of Jacobean England. Archival research in the AGS is blended with a detailed visual analysis and comparison of related cultural productions: a Ramsay clock base and contemporary stage satires to reconstruct the print’s fate (its attempted suppression by the Spanish ambassador Gondomar, and its clandestine resilience across Protestant networks across Europe). The study shows that censorship paradoxically magnified the image’s polemical force, turning it into a “martyr-relic” that determined anti-Catholic and anti-Spanish discourse, as evidenced Scott’s and Middleton’s later critiques and complains about Gondomar’s action, fedding so the Black Legend trend. By foregrounding visual evidence, the project re-positions graphic satire as a decisive agent in shaping early-modern public opinion and offers a nuanced reading of propaganda, diplomacy and confessional conflict.
YR 2025
FD 2025
LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/79763
UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/79763
LA eng
NO Departamento de Filología Inglesa
DS UVaDOC
RD 26-nov-2025