The Early Elizabethan Polity
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The Early Elizabethan Polity
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Author : Stephen Alford
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2002-06-20
The Early Elizabethan Polity written by Stephen Alford and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-06-20 with History categories.
An alternative account of the so-called 'succession crisis' in the first decade of the reign of Elizabeth I.
Burghley
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Author : Stephen Alford
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Burghley written by Stephen Alford and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
William Cecil, Lord Burghley (1520–1598), was the closest adviser to England’s Queen Elizabeth I and—as this revealing and provocative biography shows—he was the driving force behind the Queen's reign for four decades. Cecil’s impact on the development of the English state was deep and personal. A committed Protestant, he guided domestic and foreign affairs with the confidence of his religious conviction. Believing himself the divinely instigated protector of his monarch, he felt able to disobey her direct commands. He was uncompromising, obsessive, and supremely self-assured—a cunning politician as well as a consummate servant. This comprehensive biography gives proper weight to Cecil's formative years, his subtle navigation of the reigns of Edward VI and Mary I, his lifelong enmity with Mary Queen of Scots, and his obsession with family dynasty. It also provides a fresh account of Elizabeth I and her reign, uncovering limitations and concerns about invasions, succession, and conspiracy. Intimate, authoritative, and enormously readable, this book redefines our understanding of the Elizabethan period.
The Monarchical Republic Of Early Modern England
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Author : John F. McDiarmid
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-03-03
The Monarchical Republic Of Early Modern England written by John F. McDiarmid and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-03 with History categories.
With its challenging, paradoxical thesis that Elizabethan England was a 'republic which happened also to be a monarchy', Patrick Collinson's 1987 essay 'The Monarchical Republic of Queen Elizabeth I' instigated a proliferation of research and lively debate about quasi-republican aspects of Tudor and Stuart England. In this volume, a distinguished international group of scholars examines the idea of the 'monarchical republic' from the 1530s to the 1640s, and tests the concept from a variety of points of view. New suggestions are advanced about the pattern of development of quasi-republican tendencies and of opposition to them, and about their relation to the politics of earlier and later periods. A number of essays focus on the political activity of leading figures at court; several analyse political life in towns or rural areas; others discuss education, rhetoric, linguistic thought and reading practices, poetic and dramatic texts, the relations of politics to religious conflict, gendered conceptions of the monarchy, and 'monarchical republicanism' in the new American colonies. Differing positions in the scholarly debate about early modern English republicanism are represented, and fresh archival research advances the study of quasi-republican elements in early modern English politics.
William Cecil And The British Succession Crisis Of The 1560s
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Author : Stephen Alford
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
William Cecil And The British Succession Crisis Of The 1560s written by Stephen Alford and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Great Britain categories.
The Watchers
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Author : Stephen Alford
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2012
The Watchers written by Stephen Alford and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with History categories.
Elizabeth I was a ruler who radiated a sense of power and purpose. Her long and successful reign was the apotheosis of the Tudor dynasty. Her subjects themselves felt that they were living in exceptional times and her reign has always been remembered as an age of unique wealth, confidence and adventure. Across much of Europe, however, Elizabeth was viewed very differently. She was 'Jezebel', the bastard offspring of Henry VIII's illegal second marriage, a woman and a Protestant heretic. The pope denounced her as a heretic schismatic tyrant and the most powerful rulers of Europe conspired to destroy her, their plans most fully realized by the Spanish Armada. If Elizabeth's reign was a golden age, then it was also a precarious one that required constant, anxious surveillance against sometimes overwhelming threats. The Watchers is a beautifully written, gripping account of the unflagging battle by spies, codebreakers, ambassadors and confidence-men to protect the queen. It was a reign that required endless watchfulness - of the coasts, of the Catholic seminaries, of Elizabeth's own subjects. The stakes could not have been higher- priests coming secretly ashore were hunted down and executed, and assassination plots, real and imagined, sprung up everywhere. Drawing on extraordinary secret files, Stephen Alford brings to life this shadow world, where nobody could be trusted and where a single mistake could have changed England's history drastically. This is a dark, surprising and utterly compelling account of an extraordinary reign.
The Polarisation Of Elizabethan Politics
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Author : Paul E. J. Hammer
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1999-06-24
The Polarisation Of Elizabethan Politics written by Paul E. J. Hammer and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-06-24 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A revisionist 1999 account of the career of Elizabeth I's 'favourite', the 2nd Earl of Essex.
Queenship And Political Discourse In The Elizabethan Realms
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Author : Natalie Mears
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2005-12-08
Queenship And Political Discourse In The Elizabethan Realms written by Natalie Mears and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-12-08 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
An important re-evaluation of Elizabethan politics and Elizabeth's queenship in sixteenth-century England, Wales and Ireland.
Leicester And The Court
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Author : Simon Adams
language : en
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Release Date : 2002
Leicester And The Court written by Simon Adams and has been published by Manchester University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Education categories.
During the past 25 years Elizabethan history has been transformed by the work of Simon Adams. Famous for the depth and breadth of his research in libraries and archives throughout Britain, Western Europe and the USA, he has brought to life the most enigmatic of the greater Elizabethans: Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. Together with his edition of Leicester's accounts and his reconstruction of Leicester's papers, Adams has published numerous essays and articles on Leicester's influence and activities. They have reshaped our knowledge of Elizabeth and her Court, Parliament, the localities from Wales to Warwickshire and such subjects of recent debate as the power of the nobility and the noble affinity, the politics of faction and the role of patronage. Sixteen of Simon Adams' essays are found in this collection, organized into three groups: the Court, Leicester and his affinity, and Leicester and the regions. The collection ranges from much-cited essays in standard textbooks to papers at international conferences, as well as articles in a variety of journals.
The Early Elizabethan Episcopacy
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Author : Michael Martin Wiseman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1975
The Early Elizabethan Episcopacy written by Michael Martin Wiseman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with categories.
Shakespeare S Early History Plays
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Author : Donald Watson
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 1990-06-18
Shakespeare S Early History Plays written by Donald Watson and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990-06-18 with Literary Criticism categories.
This study examines the early history plays - the first tetralogy and "King John" - as plays, not only by analyzing their theatrical dimensions but also be connecting their staging with the playhouse as a social institution and with the theatricality of Elizabethan culture in the 1590s.