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“Fast ti'd unto them in a golden Chaine”: Typology, Apocalypse, and Woman's Genealogy in Aemilia Lanyer's Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Marie H. Loughlin
Marie H. Loughlin*
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Okanagan University College
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Abstract

Aemilia Lanyer uses the genealogical model of promise, fulfillment, and supersedure implied by biblical typology and the vindication of the godly implied in scriptural apocalypse to accomplish several related aims: to represent her dedicatees as biblical types; to fashion Margaret, Countess of Cumberland, as the apotheosized Christian woman; to write women's literary history. Her fluid metaphors and biblical allusions, which require reading equally for their material and spiritual significance, acknowledge Margaret and her daughter's desire for the spiritual inheritance of the Kingdom and the worldly aristocratic inheritance willed away from their female line in favor of a male heir.

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Renaissance Quarterly , Volume 53 , Issue 1 , Spring 2000 , pp. 133 - 179
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Copyright © Renaissance Society of America 2000

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