‘We should dress us fairly for our end’: The significance of the clothing worn at elite executions in England in the long sixteenth-century’
‘We should dress us fairly for our end’: The significance of the clothing worn at elite executions in England in the long sixteenth-century’
This article considers the clothing choices made by some of the Tudor (and Stewart) elite who met their end on the scaffold. While the final speeches of the condemned have been analysed, what they chose to wear has been neglected – yet contemporary observers often recorded their choices in detail indicating that it was significant to both the prisoner and their audience. By exploring the clothes worn for trials and executions, and the significance of undressing in public, this article argues that most elite prisoners used clothing to make a final statement, the nature of which could range from defiance to a wish to make a dignified end.
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Hayward, Maria
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April 2016
Hayward, Maria
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Hayward, Maria
(2016)
‘We should dress us fairly for our end’: The significance of the clothing worn at elite executions in England in the long sixteenth-century’.
History, 101 (345), .
(doi:10.1111/1468-229X.12229).
Abstract
This article considers the clothing choices made by some of the Tudor (and Stewart) elite who met their end on the scaffold. While the final speeches of the condemned have been analysed, what they chose to wear has been neglected – yet contemporary observers often recorded their choices in detail indicating that it was significant to both the prisoner and their audience. By exploring the clothes worn for trials and executions, and the significance of undressing in public, this article argues that most elite prisoners used clothing to make a final statement, the nature of which could range from defiance to a wish to make a dignified end.
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