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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... person , described by Smith as ' the life , the head and the authoritie of all thinges that be doone in the realme of England ' . Meditating on the latest communication from Inland Revenue in its O.H.M.S. envelope , one realises that ...
... person , described by Smith as ' the life , the head and the authoritie of all thinges that be doone in the realme of England ' . Meditating on the latest communication from Inland Revenue in its O.H.M.S. envelope , one realises that ...
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... persons . It would be nice to be able to say that this growing depth of knowledge is helping us to an explanatory understanding of the politics of the pre - Civil War years or , for that matter , of the post - Civil War Restoration to ...
... persons . It would be nice to be able to say that this growing depth of knowledge is helping us to an explanatory understanding of the politics of the pre - Civil War years or , for that matter , of the post - Civil War Restoration to ...
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... persons was a matter of concern to almost everyone , and the probate of wills was , in England , business for the spiritual courts . But the courts could do nothing without the numerous private persons who assumed a kind of public ...
... persons was a matter of concern to almost everyone , and the probate of wills was , in England , business for the spiritual courts . But the courts could do nothing without the numerous private persons who assumed a kind of public ...
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... persons were not to be ' altogether neglected ' , since they made up juries and filled the parish offices . To save his snobbish face and not to make a total nonsense of what he had just written , Smith then made up a small piece of ...
... persons were not to be ' altogether neglected ' , since they made up juries and filled the parish offices . To save his snobbish face and not to make a total nonsense of what he had just written , Smith then made up a small piece of ...
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... person by hereditary right . This needs to be said , since historians used to talk about a ' Tudor despotism ' and an attempt was made a few years ago to revive this 13 De Republica Anglorum by Sir Thomas Smith , ed . Mary Dewar ...
... person by hereditary right . This needs to be said , since historians used to talk about a ' Tudor despotism ' and an attempt was made a few years ago to revive this 13 De Republica Anglorum by Sir Thomas Smith , ed . Mary Dewar ...
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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