Elizabethan EssaysThe age of Elizabeth I exercises a fascination unmatched by other periods of English history. Yet while the leading figures may seem familiar, many Elizabethan personalities, including the queen herself, remain enigmatic; their attitudes to life, politics and religion often difficult to comprehend. Patrick Collinson redraws the main features of the political and religious struggle of the reign. In engaging with the virgin queen herself he tackles the old conundrum: was she a religious woman? He also investigates the no less inscrutable religious position adopted by the by the notorious turncoat, Andrew Perne, the reliability as a historian of the martyrologist John Foxe (whose religion is in no doubt) and the religious environment which shaped William Shakespeare. |
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... Burghley ) envisaged themselves conducting business in an acephalous commonwealth in which the great offices of state and the institutions of consultation and government , council and parlia- ment , would continue in being , as if there ...
... Burghley ) envisaged themselves conducting business in an acephalous commonwealth in which the great offices of state and the institutions of consultation and government , council and parlia- ment , would continue in being , as if there ...
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... Burghley and the earl of Leicester are supposed to have been mortal enemies and leaders of mutually exclusive rival factions , anticipating the deadly struggle of Elizabeth's declining years between Burghley's son Robert Cecil and ...
... Burghley and the earl of Leicester are supposed to have been mortal enemies and leaders of mutually exclusive rival factions , anticipating the deadly struggle of Elizabeth's declining years between Burghley's son Robert Cecil and ...
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... Burghley without injury both to the realm and to herself . She never chose an opposite course without plunging into embarrassments from which his and Walsingham's were barely able to extricate her . The great results of her reign were ...
... Burghley without injury both to the realm and to herself . She never chose an opposite course without plunging into embarrassments from which his and Walsingham's were barely able to extricate her . The great results of her reign were ...
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... Burghley , to contemplate its own immediate political future , a future not only without Queen Elizabeth but without monarchy , at least for a season . This was the Elizabethan Exclusion Crisis . To take the measure of our two moments ...
... Burghley , to contemplate its own immediate political future , a future not only without Queen Elizabeth but without monarchy , at least for a season . This was the Elizabethan Exclusion Crisis . To take the measure of our two moments ...
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Contents
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3 Puritans Men of Business and Elizabethan Parliaments | 59 |
Questions about the Religion of Queen Elizabeth I | 87 |
Women Men and Religious Transactions | 119 |
The Veracity of John Foxes Book of Martyrs | 151 |
An Elizabethan Reputation | 179 |
8 William Shakespeares Religious Inheritance and Environment | 219 |
Index | 253 |
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