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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... matter I propose to say only that history is both an active intellectual skill and a body of knowledge . 5 8 Herbert Butterfield , The Present State of Historical Scholarship : An Inaugural Lecture ( Cambridge , 1965 ) , p . 3 . There ...
... matter I propose to say only that history is both an active intellectual skill and a body of knowledge . 5 8 Herbert Butterfield , The Present State of Historical Scholarship : An Inaugural Lecture ( Cambridge , 1965 ) , p . 3 . There ...
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... matters can only receive ideographic treatment ; that there should be no European history before Napoleon , except , inconsequen- tially , for the Italian Renaissance - no Reformation , a particular cause of regret for some of us , no ...
... matters can only receive ideographic treatment ; that there should be no European history before Napoleon , except , inconsequen- tially , for the Italian Renaissance - no Reformation , a particular cause of regret for some of us , no ...
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... was to be done with the ever " History from 5 to 16 : Curriculum Matters , 11 , Department of Education and Science ( HMSO , increasing mass of facts which historians were accumulating with such. 1988 ) . De Republica Anglorum 5.
... was to be done with the ever " History from 5 to 16 : Curriculum Matters , 11 , Department of Education and Science ( HMSO , increasing mass of facts which historians were accumulating with such. 1988 ) . De Republica Anglorum 5.
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... matter straight , so that ecclesiastical history had attained rigorous stand- ards of scholarship rather earlier than civil history ) , 23 It is now nearly twenty years since Sir Geoffrey Elton revived and restated Seeley's dictum in ...
... matter straight , so that ecclesiastical history had attained rigorous stand- ards of scholarship rather earlier than civil history ) , 23 It is now nearly twenty years since Sir Geoffrey Elton revived and restated Seeley's dictum in ...
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... matter of course , in support of the government , as well as in opposition to it'.42 V It is time to turn away from matters of which I have at best a borrowed understanding and to bring discussion down to the more manageable and ...
... matter of course , in support of the government , as well as in opposition to it'.42 V It is time to turn away from matters of which I have at best a borrowed understanding and to bring discussion down to the more manageable and ...
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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