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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... royal government , and especially its fiscal demands , stimulated at a higher level the development of representative estates and the political culture associated with parliaments . Peasant revolts may have been revolts of the peasants ...
... royal government , and especially its fiscal demands , stimulated at a higher level the development of representative estates and the political culture associated with parliaments . Peasant revolts may have been revolts of the peasants ...
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... royal minority , but only for six years , not as much as Mary Stuart's Scotland , where kings and queens usually came to the throne before they could speak . Minorities and other little local difficulties , when the fiction of personal ...
... royal minority , but only for six years , not as much as Mary Stuart's Scotland , where kings and queens usually came to the throne before they could speak . Minorities and other little local difficulties , when the fiction of personal ...
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... royal and kingly majesty ' . ) 54 It is hardly surprising that this perspective should be accessible to a historian ( like myself ) of the Elizabethan age rather than ( as it might be ) of the ' despotism ' of Henry VIII . For in spite ...
... royal and kingly majesty ' . ) 54 It is hardly surprising that this perspective should be accessible to a historian ( like myself ) of the Elizabethan age rather than ( as it might be ) of the ' despotism ' of Henry VIII . For in spite ...
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... Royal Historical Society , 5th ser . , 31 ( 1981 ) , pp . 51-68 . 68 I am grateful to Professor A.H. Smith for sharing with me continuing work on Sir Nathaniel Bacon , reflecting the content of the third and fourth volumes of his ...
... Royal Historical Society , 5th ser . , 31 ( 1981 ) , pp . 51-68 . 68 I am grateful to Professor A.H. Smith for sharing with me continuing work on Sir Nathaniel Bacon , reflecting the content of the third and fourth volumes of his ...
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... royal and semi - royal personages had to wait another eighteen years for his bishopric . One might as well have justified the government of Mrs Thatcher on the grounds that her cabinet could be trusted to keep her in order . Historians ...
... royal and semi - royal personages had to wait another eighteen years for his bishopric . One might as well have justified the government of Mrs Thatcher on the grounds that her cabinet could be trusted to keep her in order . Historians ...
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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