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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... Professor of History in the University of Cambridge , delivered on 9 November 1989 ( Cambridge University Press , 1990 ) . 2 The J.E. Neale Memorial Lecture for 1986 , delivered in the John Rylands University Library of Manchester on 8 ...
... Professor of History in the University of Cambridge , delivered on 9 November 1989 ( Cambridge University Press , 1990 ) . 2 The J.E. Neale Memorial Lecture for 1986 , delivered in the John Rylands University Library of Manchester on 8 ...
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... professor , succeeding Charles Kingsley , who was ' the last of the absurdities ' . At the risk of inaugurating a new line of absurdities I have to confess to being rather chuffed to sit in a chair once occupied by the author of ...
... professor , succeeding Charles Kingsley , who was ' the last of the absurdities ' . At the risk of inaugurating a new line of absurdities I have to confess to being rather chuffed to sit in a chair once occupied by the author of ...
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... Professor Elton's insistence on the need to make students of the subject feel ( and suffer ? ) the sheer length of history . History is indeed as long as a piece of string and as broad as we care to make it . And meanwhile the ...
... Professor Elton's insistence on the need to make students of the subject feel ( and suffer ? ) the sheer length of history . History is indeed as long as a piece of string and as broad as we care to make it . And meanwhile the ...
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... Professor Peter Blickle began with the evidence of the so - called Peasants ' War of 1525 , which he elevated to the status of an early modern Revolution of the Common Man . But he then found that to account for such an abortive ...
... Professor Peter Blickle began with the evidence of the so - called Peasants ' War of 1525 , which he elevated to the status of an early modern Revolution of the Common Man . But he then found that to account for such an abortive ...
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... Professor Koenigsberger assures us , a balanced constitution such as Fortescue described had pre- vailed , in principle , from Poland to Portugal , Norway to Sicily . ' Dominium politicum et regale was the norm , not the exception ...
... Professor Koenigsberger assures us , a balanced constitution such as Fortescue described had pre- vailed , in principle , from Poland to Portugal , Norway to Sicily . ' Dominium politicum et regale was the norm , not the exception ...
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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