ISBN:
9780521651448
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (288 p.)
Series Statement:
Ideas in Context
Parallel Title:
Print version Political Culture in the Reign of Elizabeth I : Queen and Commonwealth 1558-1585
DDC:
306.2/0942/09031
Keywords:
Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
In this major contribution to Ideas in Context Anne McLaren looks at how Elizabeth I managed to be queen, in the face of considerable male opposition. She examines the political context of Elizabeth's reign and demonstrates the continuities between it and the outbreak of the English civil war
Description / Table of Contents:
Preliminaries; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; CHAPTER 1 'To be Deborah': the political implications of providentialism under a female ruler; CHAPTER 2 Announcing the godly common weal: Knox, Aylmer and the parameters of counsel; CHAPTER 3 Feats of incorporation: the ideological bases of the mixed monarchy; CHAPTER 4 Contesting the social order: 'resistance theory' and the mixed monarchy; CHAPTER 5 Godly men and nobles: the bicephalic body politic; CHAPTER 6 Godly men and parliamentarians: the politics of counsel in the 1570s
Description / Table of Contents:
CHAPTER 7 Rewriting the common weal: Sir Thomas Smith and the De Republica AnglorumAfterword; Bibliography; Index; Ideas in Context;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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