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This chapter examines the broadly defined practices of gift-giving in Mary Wroth’s Urania as representative of the politically expansive potential of food exchange. Arguing first that food can transcend the body to affect the body politic, the chapter then investigates the dynamic political function of gifts of fruit, marriage feasts, and charitable hospitality. If political power can be squandered or consolidated through behaviour at a feast, then wars can be lost or international coalitions nurtured through food gifts. Regional and national control might be fortified by the alliances forged during wedding celebrations, or alternatively overthrown, as illustrated by the episode of the pilgrim Parselius who takes advantage of hospitable traditions to remove a tyrant. As Wroth shows, elite women believed in their right to advise royalty on their behaviour, while recognizing the far-reaching effects of local food practices on regional, national, and international affairs.

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  1. 1.

    Lady Mary Wroth, The Second Part of The Countess of Montgomery’s Urania, ed. Josephine A. Roberts, Suzanne Gossett, and Janel Mueller (Tempe, AZ: Renaissance English Text Society in conjunction with ACMRS, 1999) (Wroth 1999). Wroth’s editors suggest that Part 2 was likely written between 1621, after the publication of Part 1, and 1630, the latter date reflecting the deaths of the titular Countess of Montgomery, Susan Herbert, in 1629, and Wroth’s lover William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke, in 1630; ‘Textual Introduction’, p. xxiii. All citations of the Second and First Parts (Lady Mary Wroth, The First Part of The Countess of Montgomery’s Urania, ed. Josephine A. Roberts [Tempe, AZ: ACMRS, 1995, 2005]) of Wroth’s Urania will be provided parenthetically (Wroth 2005 [1995]).

  2. 2.

    Bernadette Andrea, ‘The Tartar King’s Masque and Performances of Imperial Desire in Mary Wroth’s The Countess of Montgomery’s Urania’, in Early Modern England and Islamic Worlds, ed. Bernadette Andrea and Linda McJannet (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), pp. 73–4 (Andrea 2011). See also Andrea’s ‘Persia, Tartaria, and Pamphilia: Ideas of Asia in Mary Wroth’s The Countess of Montgomery’s Urania Part II’, in The English Renaissance, Orientalism, and the Idea of Asia, ed. Debra Johanyak and Walter S.H. Lim (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), pp. 23–50 (Andrea 2010); and Women and Islam in Early Modern English Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), ch. 2 (Andrea 2007).

  3. 3.

    Sheila T. Cavanagh, ‘“The Great Cham”: East Meets West in Lady Mary Wroth’s Urania’, in Women Writing 1550–1750, ed. Jo Wallwork and Paul Salzman (Bundoora, Australia: Meridian, 2001), pp. 89–90 (Cavanagh 2001). See also Cavanagh’s Cherished Torment: The Emotional Geography of Lady Mary Wroth’s Urania (Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 2001) (Cavanagh 2001).

  4. 4.

    Andrea, ‘The Tartar King’, p. 76.

  5. 5.

    Andrea, ‘The Tartar King’, p. 78.

  6. 6.

    Sheila T. Cavanagh, ‘“What ish my nation?”: Lady Mary Wroth’s Interrogations of Personal and National Identity’, in Early Modern Prose Fiction: The Cultural Politics of Reading, ed. Naomi Conn Liebler (London and New York: Routledge, 2007), p. 113 (Cavanagh 2007).

  7. 7.

    Cavanagh, ‘“What ish my nation?”’ p. 106.

  8. 8.

    John Tomlinson, Globalization and Culture (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999), pp. 2, 10 (Tomlinson 1999).

  9. 9.

    Cavanagh, ‘“What ish my nation?”’ pp. 113–4.

  10. 10.

    Chris Bayly, Sven Beckert, Matthew Connelly, Isabel Hofmeyr, Wendy Kozol, and Patricia Seed, ‘AHR Conversation: On Transnational History’, American Historical Review 111.5 (2006): 1442, 1444 (Bayly et al. 2006).

  11. 11.

    Bayly et al., ‘AHR Conversation’, p. 1454.

  12. 12.

    Bill Ashcroft, ‘Globalization, Transnation and Utopia’, in Locating Transnational Ideals, ed. Walter Goebel and Saskia Schabio (New York and London: Routledge, 2010), p. 15 (Ashcroft 2010). Pier Paolo Frassinelli, Ronit Frenkel, and David Watson, ‘Traversing Transnationalism’, ed. Frassinelli et al., in Traversing Transnationalism: The Horizons of Literary and Cultural Studies (New York and Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2011), pp. 1–2 (Frassinelli et al. 2011).

  13. 13.

    Desley Deacon, Penny Russell, and Angela Woollacott, ‘Introduction’, in Transnational Lives: Biographies of Global Modernity, 1700-Present, ed. Deacon, Russell, Woollacott (Houndmills and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), p. 3 (Deacon et al. 2010).

  14. 14.

    See, for example, Jerry H. Bentley, ‘Early Modern Europe and the Early Modern World’, in Between the Middle Ages and Modernity: Individual and Community in the Early Modern World, ed. Charles H. Parker and Jerry H. Bentley (Lanham MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2007), pp. 13–31 (Bentley 2007); Deacon et al., Transnational Lives; Andrew Hadfield, Literature, Travel, and Colonial Writing in the English Renaissance 1545–1625 (Oxford: Clarendon, 1998) (Hadfield 1998); Carole Levin and John Watkins, Shakespeare’s Foreign Worlds: National and Transnational Identities in the Elizabethan Age (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2009) (Levin and Watkins 2009); Andrew McRae, Literature and Domestic Travel in Early Modern England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009) (McRae 2009).

  15. 15.

    McRae, Literature and Domestic Travel, p. 2; Bentley, ‘Early Modern Europe’, p. 22.

  16. 16.

    Scott Oldenburg, Alien Albion: Literature and Immigration in Early Modern England (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014), p. 6 (Oldenburg 2014).

  17. 17.

    Oldenburg, Alien Albion, p. 9.

  18. 18.

    Oldenburg, Alien Albion, esp. chs 3 and 4.

  19. 19.

    Kate Chedgzoy, ‘The Cultural Geographies of Early Modern Women’s Writing: Journeys Across Space and Times’, Literature Compass 3.4 (2006): 890 (Chedgzoy 2006).

  20. 20.

    Merry Wiesner-Hanks, ‘Early Modern Women and the Transnational Turn’, Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal 7 (2012): 191–202 (Wiesner-Hanks 2012); Julie D. Campbell and Anne R. Larsen, eds, Early Modern Women and Transnational Communities of Letters (Farnham and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2009) (Campbell and Larsen 2009). Also see Wiesner-Hanks’s ‘Crossing Borders in Transnational Gender History’, Journal of Global History 6.3 (2011): 357–79 (Wiesner-Hanks 2011).

  21. 21.

    Margaret P. Hannay, Mary Sidney, Lady Wroth (Farnham and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2010) (Hannay 2010).

  22. 22.

    Gervase Markham, The English Housewife, ed. Michael R. Best (Kingston and Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1986), p. 5 (Markham 1986). ‘An Homilie Against Gluttony and Drunkennesse’, Certaine Sermons or Homilies, Appointed to be Read in Churches…Two volumes in one (Gainesville: Scholars’ Facsimilies & Reprints, 1968), 2.101 (Certaine Sermons or Homilies 1968).

  23. 23.

    Contextually, this court shares similarities with the later court of James I, from which women were banished after Queen Anne’s death in 1619; as John Chamberlain reports on 12 February 1620, ‘Our pulpits ring continually of the insolence and impudence of women’, in The Letters of John Chamberlain, 2 vols, ed. Norman Egbert McClure (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1939), 2.289 (Chamberlain 1939).

  24. 24.

    ‘An Homilie Against Gluttony’, 2.94, 98.

  25. 25.

    Cilicia was part of the Ottoman Empire; today this region is part of Turkey.

  26. 26.

    Felicity Heal, ‘Food Gifts, the Household and the Politics of Exchange in Early Modern England’, Past and Present 199 (2008): 44 (Heal 2008).

  27. 27.

    Natalie Zemon Davis, The Gift in Sixteenth-Century France (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2000), p. 34 (Davis 2000).

  28. 28.

    See Heal, ‘Food Gifts’, pp. 41–70, and The Power of Gifts: Gift Exchange in Early Modern England (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014) (Heal 2014).

  29. 29.

    Heal, ‘Food Gifts’, p. 56.

  30. 30.

    Heal, ‘Food Gifts’, p. 64.

  31. 31.

    Heal, ‘Food Gifts’, pp. 62–3.

  32. 32.

    Heal, The Power of Gifts, p. 36.

  33. 33.

    Gustav Ungerer, ‘Juan Pantoja de la Cruz and the Circulation of Gifts between the English and Spanish Courts in 1604/5’, Shakespeare Studies 26 (1998): 148 (Ungerer 1998).

  34. 34.

    Ungerer, ‘Juan Pantoja de la Cruz’, p. 149.

  35. 35.

    Heal, The Power of Gifts, pp. 150–1 and esp. ch. 6.

  36. 36.

    Ungerer, ‘Juan Pantoja de la Cruz’, p. 149.

  37. 37.

    John Chamberlain to Dudley Carleton, 20 March 1624, The Letters of John Chamberlain, 2.549–50.

  38. 38.

    Jane Whittle and Elizabeth Griffiths, Consumption and Gender in the Early Seventeenth-Century Household: The World of Alice Le Strange (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), p. 93 (Whittle and Griffiths 2012). For Spenser, see Linda Levy Peck, Consuming Splendor: Society and Culture in Seventeenth-Century England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), p. 70 (Peck 2005).

  39. 39.

    Heal, The Power of Gifts, p. 37.

  40. 40.

    Heal, The Power of Gifts, p. 39.

  41. 41.

    Ken Albala, Eating Right in the Renaissance (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2002), pp. 109–10 (Albala 2002); Joan Thirsk, Food in Early Modern England: Phases, Fads, Fashions 1500–1760 (London and New York: Hambledon Continuum, 2007), p. 294 (Thirsk 2007).

  42. 42.

    William Harrison, The Description of England: The Classic Contemporary Account of Tudor Social Life, ed. Georges Edelen (Washington and New York: Folger Shakespeare Library and Dover, 1968, 1994), p. 265 (Harrison 1994 [1968]).

  43. 43.

    For instance, while discussing the English (and Scottish) love of ‘superfluous diet’, Harrison looks back to the restraint of the ‘North Britons’ who ‘did give themselves universally to great abstinence’ especially during wartime, when they satisfied themselves with ‘herbs and roots’, in Description, p. 125.

  44. 44.

    Harrison, Description, p. 269.

  45. 45.

    Arthur Standish, The Commons Complaint (London, 1611), sig. E1 r (Standish 1611).

  46. 46.

    Standish, Commons Complaint, sig. E3 r.

  47. 47.

    John Taverner, Certaine Experiments Concerning Fish and Frvite (London, 1600), sigs. E3 r-v (Taverner 1600).

  48. 48.

    Fynes Moryson, An Itinerary Containing His Ten Yeeres Travell (London, 1617), 3.146–7 (Moryson 1617).

  49. 49.

    For a further look at the concept of grafting in Urania, see Vin Nardizzi and Miriam Jacobson, ‘The Secrets of Grafting in Wroth’s Urania’, in Ecofeminist Approaches to Early Modernity, ed. Jennifer Munroe and Rebecca Laroche (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), pp. 175–94 (Nardizzi and Jacobson 2011).

  50. 50.

    Harrison, Description, p. 269.

  51. 51.

    N.F., Frviterers Secrets (London, 1604), sigs. A2 r-v (N.F. 1604).

  52. 52.

    Gervase Markham, The English Hvsbandman (London, 1613), p. 58 (Markham 1613).

  53. 53.

    Leonard Mascall, A Booke of the Arte and maner, how to plant and graffe all sortes of trees (London, 1572), sig. A2 r (Mascall 1572).

  54. 54.

    Margaret Visser, The Gift of Thanks: The Roots, Persistence, and Paradoxical Meanings of Social Ritual (Toronto: HarperCollins, 2008), p. 92 (Visser 2008).

  55. 55.

    Heal, The Power of Gifts, p. 60.

  56. 56.

    Heal, The Power of Gifts, p. 60.

  57. 57.

    The inclusive nature of weddings is suggested by Ivan Day, ‘Bridecup and Cake: The Ceremonial Food and Drink of the Bridal Procession’, in Food and the Rites of Passage: Leeds Symposium on Food History, ed. Laura Mason (Totnes: Prospect, 2002), pp. 33–61, esp. 38–9 (Day 2002). For the practice of charity at weddings, see also Ilana Krausman Ben-Amos, The Culture of Giving: Informal Support and Gift-Exchange in Early Modern England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008), p. 127 (Ben-Amos 2008); David Cressy, Birth, Marriage and Death: Ritual, Religion and the Life-Cycle in Tudor and Stuart England (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997), p. 367 (Cressy 1997).

  58. 58.

    Cressy, Birth, Marriage and Death, pp. 371–2.

  59. 59.

    Thomas Deloney, ‘Jack of Newbury’, in An Anthology of Elizabethan Prose Fiction, ed. Paul Salzman (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1987), pp. 336–7 (Deloney 1987).

  60. 60.

    Cressy, Birth, Marriage and Death, pp. 350–5.

  61. 61.

    Heal, The Power of Gifts, pp. 65–6.

  62. 62.

    Davis, Gift in Sixteenth-Century France, pp. 18–9.

  63. 63.

    Ben-Amos, The Culture of Giving, p. 193.

  64. 64.

    The bridecup described by Wroth might have evoked the ‘great golden bowl’ used to toast the Princess Elizabeth in her 1613 marriage to Frederick. The traditional drink was hippocras, a spiced wine: Day, ‘Bridecup and Cake’, p. 54.

  65. 65.

    See Jacques Derrida and Caleb Dalechamp on the slippery divide between friend and enemy, as encapsulated in the term ‘host’, or ‘hostis’, in Of Hospitality: Anne Dufourmantelle Invites Jacques Derrida to Respond, tr. Rachel Bowlby (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000), p. 45 (Derrida 2000); Caleb Dalechamp, Christian Hospitalitie (Cambridge, 1632), p. 5 (Dalechamp 1632).

  66. 66.

    Jennie Germann Molz and Sarah Gibson, ‘Introduction: Mobilizing and Mooring Hospitality’, in Mobilizing Hospitality: The Ethics of Social Relations in a Mobile World, ed. Molz and Gibson (Aldershot and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2007), p. 3 (Molz and Gibson 2007).

  67. 67.

    Emmanuel Kant, ‘To Eternal Peace’, tr. Carl J. Friedrich, in Basic Writings of Kant, ed. Allen W. Wood (New York: Modern Library, 2001), pp. 448–9 (Kant 2001).

  68. 68.

    Derrida, Of Hospitality.

  69. 69.

    Dalechamp, Christian Hospitalitie, p. 5.

  70. 70.

    Derrida, Of Hospitality, p. 49.

  71. 71.

    See Felicity Heal on the pilgrim, in Hospitality in Early Modern England (Oxford: Clarendon, 1990), pp. 235–7 (Heal 1990).

  72. 72.

    Dalechamp, Christian Hospitalitie, p. 10.

  73. 73.

    Dalechamp, Christian Hospitalitie, pp. 24–5.

  74. 74.

    Dalechamp, Christian Hospitalitie, p. 98.

  75. 75.

    Dalechamp, Christian Hospitalitie, p. 105. A full discussion of the stranger’s duties can be found pp. 104–22.

  76. 76.

    Dalechamp, Christian Hospitalitie, p. 113; see the discussion of thankfulness pp. 110–6.

  77. 77.

    Heal, Hospitality, p. 192.

  78. 78.

    Derrida, Of Hospitality, pp. 54–5.

  79. 79.

    Molz and Gibson, ‘Introduction’, p. 10.

  80. 80.

    Molz and Gibson, ‘Introduction’, p. 10; Derrida, Of Hospitality, p. 55.

  81. 81.

    Dalechamp, Christian Hospitalitie, p. 27.

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