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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... evidence takes us from the early to the high Renaissance and as respectable , Christian women began again to decorate their ears . Evidently there are now no limits beyond those indicated by the literary scholar Stephen Greenblatt in ...
... evidence takes us from the early to the high Renaissance and as respectable , Christian women began again to decorate their ears . Evidently there are now no limits beyond those indicated by the literary scholar Stephen Greenblatt in ...
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... 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 revolution it was necessary to understand not ...
... 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 revolution it was necessary to understand not ...
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... evidence , and not simply a nostalgic harking back to late nineteenth - century myths about instinctive Gemeinschaften in transi- tion towards more purposeful Gesellschaften . Community is a potent myth , but it would be a harmful anti ...
... evidence , and not simply a nostalgic harking back to late nineteenth - century myths about instinctive Gemeinschaften in transi- tion towards more purposeful Gesellschaften . Community is a potent myth , but it would be a harmful anti ...
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... evidence preserved by George Puttenham in The Art of English Poesie , the gentry and professional intelligentsia of the sixteenth century were perfectly capable of pronouncing ' received English ' but chose to ' condescend ' in their ...
... evidence preserved by George Puttenham in The Art of English Poesie , the gentry and professional intelligentsia of the sixteenth century were perfectly capable of pronouncing ' received English ' but chose to ' condescend ' in their ...
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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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