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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... monarchy and 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 ...
... monarchy and 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 ...
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Patrick Collinson. at relatively submerged levels , well below the apexes of lordship and monarchy . That is as much as to say that a healthy organism , or the organism in a normally healthy state , has been perceived to exist only when ...
Patrick Collinson. at relatively submerged levels , well below the apexes of lordship and monarchy . That is as much as to say that a healthy organism , or the organism in a normally healthy state , has been perceived to exist only when ...
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... monarchy , even in some sense , an absolute monarchy , ' farre more absolute ' , wrote the mid- Tudor intellectual - in - office Sir Thomas Smith , ' than either the dukedom of Venice is , or the kingdome of the Lacedemonians was'.43 ...
... monarchy , even in some sense , an absolute monarchy , ' farre more absolute ' , wrote the mid- Tudor intellectual - in - office Sir Thomas Smith , ' than either the dukedom of Venice is , or the kingdome of the Lacedemonians was'.43 ...
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... monarchy wore thin , are a reminder of what late medieval political commentators had learned , directly or indirectly , from the politi- cal philosophy of Aristotle : that monarchy was , or ought to be , not so much absolute as ...
... monarchy wore thin , are a reminder of what late medieval political commentators had learned , directly or indirectly , from the politi- cal philosophy of Aristotle : that monarchy was , or ought to be , not so much absolute as ...
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... monarchy , origi- nated in some kind of republic , albeit a republic shaped like a family and subject throughout its development to patriarchy : which is to say that Smith anticipated Filmer . ( And had he fully integrated Aristotle ...
... monarchy , origi- nated in some kind of republic , albeit a republic shaped like a family and subject throughout its development to patriarchy : which is to say that Smith anticipated Filmer . ( And had he fully integrated Aristotle ...
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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