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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... century , 36 and of the ostensibly democratic movement of the mid - seventeenth century reified by its opponents as the Levellers . As men supposedly born before their time , the Levellers may have enjoyed a vision of things which were ...
... century , 36 and of the ostensibly democratic movement of the mid - seventeenth century reified by its opponents as the Levellers . As men supposedly born before their time , the Levellers may have enjoyed a vision of things which were ...
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... seventeenth - century England was a 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 ...
... seventeenth - century England was a 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 ...
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... Seventeenth - Century Lincolnshire ( Lincoln , 1980 ) ; Ann Hughes , ' Militancy and Localism : Warwickshire Politics and Westminster Polities ' , Transactions of the Royal Historical Society , 5th ser . , 31 ( 1981 ) , pp . 51-68 . 68 ...
... Seventeenth - Century Lincolnshire ( Lincoln , 1980 ) ; Ann Hughes , ' Militancy and Localism : Warwickshire Politics and Westminster Polities ' , Transactions of the Royal Historical Society , 5th ser . , 31 ( 1981 ) , pp . 51-68 . 68 ...
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... Seventeenth - Century England ( Cambridge , 1987 ) . 78 Joan R. Kent , The English Village Constable , 1580-1642 : A Social and Administrative Study ( Oxford , 1986 ) . This work will be undertaken by the Cambridge historians Dr John ...
... Seventeenth - Century England ( Cambridge , 1987 ) . 78 Joan R. Kent , The English Village Constable , 1580-1642 : A Social and Administrative Study ( Oxford , 1986 ) . This work will be undertaken by the Cambridge historians Dr John ...
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... seventeenth - century England it was possible to use the language of classical republicanism in order to deny that England was a republic . 19 The very fact that ' republic ' was an acceptable term for a variety of political systems in ...
... seventeenth - century England it was possible to use the language of classical republicanism in order to deny that England was a republic . 19 The very fact that ' republic ' was an acceptable term for a variety of political systems in ...
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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