HIST 332 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Vestal Virgin, Tiber, Courtly Love
14 Feb 2019
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Proved her innocence by taking water from the tiber to the temple of vesta. Elizabeth had to prove her virginity as well. She becomes a representative of england"s successful expansion throughout the years. She was an icon of beauty and fashion and wore the pelican dress. She said that she was a mother to her people. Rainbow portrait portrays elizabeth almost as a god. She is the kind of sun which lights up everything. Rainbow appeared to noah after the flood which refers to the covenant and god. Ears and eyes all over her dress suggesting that she is all seeing and all hearing and is some kind of divine figure, above mortals. She becomes the figure of the success of protestant england. She later wrote down her visions which were inspired by the holy spirit. Women had a great freedom because they were powerful economically.
