Author: Sir Simonds D'EwesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 734
Book Description
A Compleat Journal of the Votes, Speeches and Debates, Both of the House of Lords and House of Commons
Author: Sir Simonds D'EwesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 734
Book Description
The Cambridge History of English Literature: Cavalier and Puritan
Author: Alfred Rayney WallerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 638
Book Description
Tudor Rule and Revolution
Author: Delloyd J. GuthPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521091275
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
The work of G. R. Elton has inspired its own 'Tudor Revolution' in the historiography of Tudor and Stuart government and society. In this volume a distinguished gathering of eighteen historians, all now resident in North America, pay tribute to Professor Elton's broad influence in shaping modern interpretations of the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century constitution. Each contributor to this volume has addressed, directly or indirectly, some aspect of that tempestuous age which has been dubbed 'Elton's era', and each of the sections relates directly to particular problems or topics which have figured prominently in Professor Elton's own work. Most extend his findings in new directions and with new evidence from archival researches. Others take issue with some of his tentative conclusions, though admitting the extent to which his work has made such advances possible.
Puritanism and Revolution
Author: NA NAPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349616680
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
This illuminating collection of essays assesses the 17th century, interpreting what used to be called "The Puritan Revolution," the ideas which helped to produce it and resulted from it, and the relations between these ideas and the political events of the day.
Elizabeth I
Author: Clark HulsePublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252071614
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Making history from the moment of her birth, England's Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603) was a legend within her own lifetime. To her supporters, Elizabeth I was Gloriana, the Faerie Queene, a dignified and powerful woman who ruled with cunning and skill for forty-four years. To her detractors she was the ruthless supporter of a false religion; the murderer of her cousin Mary Queen of Scots; a wanton woman, herself illegitimate, who sullied the crown with her licentious behavior. The legends that have grown up around Elizabeth are fascinating, but as this book shows, the truth is just as remarkable. In Elizabeth I: Ruler and Legend, Clark Hulse brings Elizabeth to life, combining text and images to tell her story through the objects handed down by history. Commemorating the four hundredth anniversary of Elizabeth's death, this handsome volume contains over one hundred photographs of books, manuscripts, maps, letters, paintings, clothing, furniture, and many more artifacts dating from her reign. Each of these objects tells a story, and Hulse uses them as a starting point for a broad and thorough examination of Elizabeth and the society in which she lived. Beginning with an analysis of the political events surrounding her birth, the book describes Elizabeth's relationship with her father, Henry VIII, and the maneuvering that led to her eventual coronation upon the death of her half-sister Mary Tudor in 1558. As queen, Elizabeth oversaw a period of breathtaking cultural achievement. She kept England from being torn apart by the religious wars raging across Europe, and she withstood both an assassination plot and the massive military threat of the Spanish Armada. This book addresses all these major events, as well as a whole host of lesser-known aspects of Elizabeth's reign. Hulse includes discussions of topics such as the education of Tudor women; markers of identity; portraits of Elizabeth; the queen's speaking style; her interest in America; music at the Tudor court; and literary depictions of Elizabeth by Shakespeare, Spenser, and other poets.
Legal Reform in English Renaissance Literature
Author: Virginia Lee StrainPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474416306
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
The first study of legal reform and literature in early modern EnglandThis book investigates rhetorical and representational practices that were used to monitor English law at the turn of the seventeenth century. The late-Elizabethan and early-Jacobean surge in the policies and enforcement of the reformation of manners has been well-documented. What has gone unnoticed, however, is the degree to which the law itself was the focus of reform for legislators, the judiciary, preachers, and writers alike. While the majority of law and literature studies characterize the law as a force of coercion and subjugation, this book instead treats in greater depth the law's own vulnerability, both to corruption and to correction. In readings of Spenser's Faerie Queene, the Gesta Grayorum, Donne's 'Satyre V', and Shakespeare's Measure for Measure and The Winter's Tale, Strain argues that the terms and techniques of legal reform provided modes of analysis through which legal authorities and literary writers alike imagined and evaluated form and character. Key FeaturesReevaluates canonical writers in light of developments in legal historical research, bringing an interdisciplinary perspective to works Collects an extensive variety of legal, political, and literary sources to reconstruct the discourse on early modern legal reform, providing an introduction to a topic that is currently underrepresented in early modern legal cultural studiesAnalyses the laws own vulnerability to individual agency.
Parliament and Liberty from the Reign of Elizabeth to the English Civil War
Author: Jack H. HexterPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804719490
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
These essays treat the evolution of English ideas of liberty from the end of the Elizabethan period up to the 1740's in the context of English constitutional and parliamentary history.
A Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Institution of Great Britain
Author: Charles BurneyPublisher:
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Category : Early printed books
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
A Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Institution of Great Britain; Including a Complete List of All the Greek Writers, by the Late Rev. Charles Burney ... with an Alphabetical Index of Authors, by William Harris ..
Author: Elizabeth I
Author: Wallace T. MacCaffreyPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691228272
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
Acclaimed for their dramatic rendering of the personalities and forces that shaped Elizabethan politics, Wallace T. MacCaffrey's three volumes thoroughly chronicle the Queen's decision making throughout her reign in a way that combines pleasurable reading with subtle analysis. Together in paperback for the first time, these books will find a wide readership among those interested in debunking Elizabeth's many mythic images and in following the steps of Elizabethan policy-makers as they grapple with the most crucial political problems of their day. MacCaffrey completes his analysis by investigating how Elizabeth and her ministers governed in the years between the Armada of 1588 and her death in 1603. In light of the Queen's desire to uphold her popularity through the maintenance of peace and prosperity, the author explains why she pursued war with Spain by only half-measures and how the brutal conquest of Ulster and the destruction of Tyrone came to be seen as prerequisites for the incorporation of Northern Ireland.