Jerusalem Afflicted by Ken Tully Chad Leahy

Author:Ken Tully, Chad Leahy [Ken Tully, Chad Leahy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781032089270
Google: 4T9nzgEACAAJ
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2021-06-30T15:57:31+00:00

Notes

1 Solar imagery is central to Spanish Habsburg mythology. See Tanner, The Last Descendant, chapter 12 and Mínguez, Los reyes solares. Philip IV in particular was known by contemporaries as el rey planeta, the planet king, a reference to the fourth planet within the Ptolemaic system: the sun. See Elliot, The Count-Duke, 177.

2 An eagle frames the crests of Ferdinand (1479–1516), Isabella (1474–1504), and Charles V (1519–1556). The so-called ‘Eagle of Saint John’, an allusion to the iconographic symbol traditionally associated with the Evangelist, frames the royal crest of the Catholic Monarchs while a double-headed eagle dominates the Habsburg standard of the Emperor. While such heraldic devices were not deployed directly by Quaresmius’ dedicatee, Philip IV, the association between global imperial dominance and these earlier sovereigns was well established in the period, informing the use of the eagle imagery here. See López Poza, ‘Empresas o divisas’ and Pascual Molina, ‘La iconografía’. The image of the eagle as symbol of protection and power is also not uncommon in the bible. For example, Deuteronomy 32:11: ‘As the eagle enticing her young to fly, and hovering over them, he spread his wings, and hath taken him and carried him on his shoulders’.

3 Psalm 76:20. All Scriptural references noted are found as marginalia in the codex. Psalm references are Vulgate enumerations. All English translations of the bible are from the Douay-Rheims rendering of the Vulgate.

4 Psalm 86:1–2.

5 3 Kings 1.

6 Esther 4–5.

7 Ecclesiasticus 35:18–19.

8 Joachim in his Book of Concord between the New and Old Testaments devises the analogy whereby ‘Bernard [of Clairvaux] is another Levi, because his mother had six sons and a daughter, as did Leah, the wife of Jacob, and Bernard was his mother’s third son, as was Levi’. Botterill, ‘Ideals of the Institutional Church’.

9 Marginalia: St. Bernard, Letter 243 (319), To the Romans, Book 2. In his letter to the Romans on the occasion of the expulsion of Pope Eugenius, Bernard, despite what he considers his lowly estate compared with the Romans, prefaces his letter, ‘But I judge it better to risk being reputed presumptuous by men than condemned by God for keeping silence, and for neglecting to speak his truth and to proclaim his justice’. For the rhetorical similarities between the letters of Quaresmius and Bernard see Introduction, Chapter 3.

10 Ecclesiasticus 17:12.

11 Psalm 39:11.

12 Romans 5:5. See also Riley-Smith, ‘Crusading as an Act of Love’.

13 Isaiah 31:9.

14 I John 4:18.

15 3 Kings 1:16.

16 Esther 5:1.

17 Joshua 9:2.

18 Hosea 2:3.

19 Isaiah 52:2.

20 2 Timothy 2:9. This marginal reference hints that Quaresmius draws upon the dramatic contrast originally made by the St. Paul in his letter to Timothy where the apostle writes, ‘It is on this account [the gospel] that I have to put up with suffering, even to being chained like a criminal. But God’s message cannot be chained up’.

21 References to print as the material medium through which Quaresmius transmits his message to Philip enter in direct contradiction with the possibility that Jerusalem Afflicted might be read as an unadulterated transcript of the sermon delivered in 1626, as the colophon seems to suggest.

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