Abstract
This article examines the reception in England of news of the victory of the Holy League over the Turks at Lepanto in 1571, and suggests its utility as a window on patterns of confessional relations and religious identity-formation in Elizabethan England. A sense of common Christian identity, manifested by extensive public rejoicing in London, co-existed with attempts by both Protestants and Catholics to use the image of “the Turk” to disparage their opponents. But the equation of Pope and Turk was increasingly portrayed as an instinct of fractious Puritanism, and its rejection was increased by the appearance of James VI and I’s poem on the battle.
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