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Denizenship

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Den´i`zen`ship
n.1.State of being a denizen.


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The commonplace nature of denizenship in Germany strengthens Chin's point that understanding national identity requires more than tracking changes in juridical categories.
On the eve of his departure he had met 'a certain honest Dutchman, a cunning painter, who should make the haven at Dover, to know if it were possible to get him his denizenship, so that he might work here quietly'.
For the purposes of the present argument the poem would have had to be composed some time between 1427 (the terminus a quo set by the parliamentary legislation of that year) and 1432 (the terminus ad quem being the year Owen receives letters of denizenship giving him the rights of an Englishman), within which time Katherine had remarried.
 
 
 
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