This paper examines the way in which old systems of allegiance are interrogated, and replaced by an emergent nationalism in two writers closely associated with the Cromwell government: Richard Morison and John Bale. In their attempt to contruct nationhood in sixteenth-century England, both Morison and Bale adapt late medieval ways of imagining community in order to provoke a shift in allegiance and a reunification of the English nation modelled on patriarchal structures.

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• Vanhoutte, J. A., (2025), "Engendering England: The Restructuring of Allegiance in the Writings of Richard Morison and John Bale", HSSCommons: (DOI: )

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Original publication: Vanhoutte, Jacqueline A. "Engendering England: The Restructuring of Allegiance in the Writings of Richard Morison and John Bale." Renaissance and Reformation 32 (1): 2010. 49-77. DOI: 10.33137/rr.v32i1.11777. This material has been re-published in an unmodified form on the Canadian HSS Commons with the permission of Iter Canada / Renaissance and Reformation. Copyright © the author(s). Their work is distributed by Renaissance and Reformation under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. For details, see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/.