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# Edward the Second notes
## Random annotation and stuff
* T632: I'm actually a bit confused about the relationship between the
Queen, Lancaster, and the Young Mortimer... I thought they were united
against Gaveston or something?
* T641: Sorry, what does "repeal" mean? Why does Mortimer want to repeal
Gaveston's exile, if that's what "repeal" refers to?
* T651: What does "resolv'd" mean?
* Wait, Mortimer and the Queen potentially having an affair? Huh.
* L500: ?
* L577: Who is King Edward trying to engage Gaveston with? Alight,
"Margaret". I wonder who that is, though.
## Status in Early Modern England
The crisis of aristocracy: When the king has his own army, how can the
nobility remain noble? They start seeing themselves as *advisors* and
prove themselv through education, and they are therefore worried about
the nobility that are uneducated.
* England experienced an explosion in population (2M -> 6M) as potatoes
and other crops are introduced after the Exploration of the Americas.
The massive increased in population causes instability in the urban
system.
* England doesn't have a bearucreacy. The local order is kept by the
nobility; the government itself is patently poor because of England's
strange system of taxation.
* During Elizabeth, fourteen noble families expired and 60 peers went
unrewarded between 1590 and 1603.
* Fear of rising non-elite/gentlemanly class in their ability to
self-fashion to courtly standards; books on "how to behave like part
of the nobility".
* Should kings have friendship?
* Civic humanism: Job is to serve the state; gone out of fashion,
replaced with neostoicism.
* The trope of "the [king's] favorite": No philosophical basis,
self-obsessed, can't control their sexual desires, pitied and envied
The flatterer
* Fear of the other (both in the military and in terms of social order)
* Everyone goes to theatres; they are important as that's where most
people encountered intellectual ideas.
* One and only one "friendship" incl. physical intimacy
* The concept of homosexuality came into play in the Victorian era
* Sodomy is "any sexual act not between 'a man and his wife'"
* Homosexuality and effiminacy were not associated at the time.
* Why didn't they justify patriarchy by saying women were weaker? "Women
exist to disrupt male authority; women as the 'other'."
Guidebooks (written by men of course): The worst thing you could do is
to be in love with your wife.
Cuckoldery is considered one of the worst things.
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