2012/01/01 by Samantha Frénée · 1 citation
Economics, Econometrics and Finance · #Historical Economic and Social Studies
paper · pdf · doi:10.4000/crm.12859
openalex publication_date 2012/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/02
One of the most under-investigated aspects of Raphael Holinshed’s Chronicles must be the study of the visual representations of British history that we find in the first edition of 1577. This article focuses on the woodcuts used in Holinshed’s Chronicles to illustrate the representation of warrior queens in England and surprisingly we find only two; Cordeilla and Boudica; from Britain’s prehistory and ancient history. It describes and analyses these images in order to demonstrate the historiographical and political objective of such works. This article also reviews the information known about the artist and tries to understand why these pictures were removed from the second edition of 1587.