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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... social scene . There are many debts which this little collection of essays incurs , and which it cannot adequately repay . I am indebted to the universities of Manchester and London ( University College , London ) which did me the ...
... social scene . There are many debts which this little collection of essays incurs , and which it cannot adequately repay . I am indebted to the universities of Manchester and London ( University College , London ) which did me the ...
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... social particle but biologically , as an organism . There is no bodily function or dysfunction on which there is not by now a considerable literature claiming historical status : from conception to death , a particu- larly popular ...
... social particle but biologically , as an organism . There is no bodily function or dysfunction on which there is not by now a considerable literature claiming historical status : from conception to death , a particu- larly popular ...
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... Social Energy in Renaissance England ( Oxford , 1988 ) , p . 1 . 19 E.H. Carr , " The Historian and his Facts ' , in What is History ? ( 1962 ) . 20 Keith Thomas , reviewing Lawrence Stone , The Past and the Present ( 1981 ) , Times ...
... Social Energy in Renaissance England ( Oxford , 1988 ) , p . 1 . 19 E.H. Carr , " The Historian and his Facts ' , in What is History ? ( 1962 ) . 20 Keith Thomas , reviewing Lawrence Stone , The Past and the Present ( 1981 ) , Times ...
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... social organism , those dynamic activities which arise from the fact that men create , maintain , transform and destroy the social structures in which they live . But it was also a pugnacious book , pouring scorn on those who supposed ...
... social organism , those dynamic activities which arise from the fact that men create , maintain , transform and destroy the social structures in which they live . But it was also a pugnacious book , pouring scorn on those who supposed ...
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... social and economic history , and which contains a college which has given its name to the austere study of high political processes , as the Peterhouse School . I may seem to speak for only those prodigals who , having wandered for too ...
... social and economic history , and which contains a college which has given its name to the austere study of high political processes , as the Peterhouse School . I may seem to speak for only those prodigals who , having wandered for too ...
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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