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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... Lord Acton , A Lecture on the Study of History ( 1895 ) , pp . 2-3 , 6 , 21 . 24 G.R. Elton , Political History , pp . 3-11 . 25 The three special issues appeared on 7 April ( when Keith Thomas's remarks appeared , p . 275 ) , 28 July ...
... Lord Acton , A Lecture on the Study of History ( 1895 ) , pp . 2-3 , 6 , 21 . 24 G.R. Elton , Political History , pp . 3-11 . 25 The three special issues appeared on 7 April ( when Keith Thomas's remarks appeared , p . 275 ) , 28 July ...
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... lord- ship and which have been the ordinary concerns of political history , certainly in medieval and early modern Europe . I take as indicative of a current trend the title of a paper not yet published but kindly supplied to me : ' Did ...
... lord- ship and which have been the ordinary concerns of political history , certainly in medieval and early modern Europe . I take as indicative of a current trend the title of a paper not yet published but kindly supplied to me : ' Did ...
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... Lord 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 ...
... Lord 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 ...
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... Lord ! how I wonder at my self that I shold offend my Queen Elizabeth ! and therefore no marvel though all the world wonder at me , that wonder at my self . ' Lawrence Humphrey had written in the opening moments of the reign : ' We ...
... Lord ! how I wonder at my self that I shold offend my Queen Elizabeth ! and therefore no marvel though all the world wonder at me , that wonder at my self . ' Lawrence Humphrey had written in the opening moments of the reign : ' We ...
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... Lord forbid not the banes , by letting her Maieftie fee the fin and punishment thereof Saue Lord , let the King here vs in the day that vve call Pfal.zo.verfe.g . Menfe Augih . Anno.1579 Per me Reges regnant John Stubbs ' Gaping Gulf is ...
... Lord forbid not the banes , by letting her Maieftie fee the fin and punishment thereof Saue Lord , let the King here vs in the day that vve call Pfal.zo.verfe.g . Menfe Augih . Anno.1579 Per me Reges regnant John Stubbs ' Gaping Gulf is ...
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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