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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... Knox , from Theodore Beza's Protestant emblem book Icones ( 1580 ) 121 Title - page of Kate Marsden , On Sledge and Horseback to Outcast Siberian Lepers ( 1893 ) 125 Bishop Bonner beating his prisoners in his orchard , from Foxe's Acts ...
... Knox , from Theodore Beza's Protestant emblem book Icones ( 1580 ) 121 Title - page of Kate Marsden , On Sledge and Horseback to Outcast Siberian Lepers ( 1893 ) 125 Bishop Bonner beating his prisoners in his orchard , from Foxe's Acts ...
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... Knox ed . T.E. Hartley , i , 1558-1581 ( Leicester , 1981 ) The History of Parliament : The House of Commons 1558-1601 , ed . P.W. Hasler , 3 vols . ( 1981 ) J.E. Neale , Elizabeth I and her Parliaments , 1559-1581 ( 1953 ) J.E. Neale ...
... Knox ed . T.E. Hartley , i , 1558-1581 ( Leicester , 1981 ) The History of Parliament : The House of Commons 1558-1601 , ed . P.W. Hasler , 3 vols . ( 1981 ) J.E. Neale , Elizabeth I and her Parliaments , 1559-1581 ( 1953 ) J.E. Neale ...
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... Knox , Goodman and Ponet were now as redundant as the Communist Manifesto at a Conservative Party Conference . By all her true Protestant subjects , Elizabeth was adored with unwavering devotion . Even if their 40 Huntington Library ...
... Knox , Goodman and Ponet were now as redundant as the Communist Manifesto at a Conservative Party Conference . By all her true Protestant subjects , Elizabeth was adored with unwavering devotion . Even if their 40 Huntington Library ...
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Contents
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| 31 | |
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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