Traditionally historians have argued that the court of Elizabeth I (1558-1603) was factional, divided among competing subjects who were manipulated by their Queen. This book provides a different account: of councilors who were united by two connected dangers, namely Catholic opposition to Protestant England and Elizabeth's refusal to marry or to settle England's succession. Working from the papers of the Queen's secretary, William Cecil, the author has set this crisis in the context of events in Scotland, Ireland and mainland Europe, and has explored fully the long-term political impact of this succession crisis in the 1560s.
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Traditionally historians have argued that the court of Elizabeth I (1558-1603) was factional, divided between competing subjects who were manipulated by their Queen. This book provides a different account: of councillors who were united by two connected dangers, namely Catholic opposition to Protestant England and Elizabeth's refusal to marry or to settle England's succession. Working from the papers of the Queen's secretary, William Cecil, the author has set this crisis in the context of events in Scotland, Ireland and mainland Europe, and has explored fully the long-term political impact of this succession crisis in the 1560s.
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'The difference between politics and political culture', according to Professor Dale Hoak, 'is essentially the difference between political action and the codes of conduct, formal and informal, governing those actions'. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
pointes meete, perillous state, hir sonne, perpetuall peace, vir civilis, unsettled succession, imperiall crowne, trewe subjectes, act ment, monarchical republic, mixed polity, hir self, utramque partem, subsidy bill, diplomatic instructions, second parliament, privy council, northern earls, necessary consideration, principal secretary, succession crisis, northern rebellion Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Cotton Caligula, Queen of Scots, Mary Stuart, Maitland of Lethington, Bernard Hampton, John Guy, Queen Elizabeth, Sir Nicholas Throckmorton, Sir Thomas Smith, Conyers Read, William Cecil, Shane O'Neill, Thomas Randolph, Cotton Titus, John Knox, Sir Henry Sidney, British Protestant, Howard of Effingham, Treaty of Edinburgh, Thomas Norton, Richard Grafton, Catholic Europe, National Library of Scotland, Sir Francis Knollys, Sir Ralph Sadler New!
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'The difference between politics and political culture', according to Professor Dale Hoak, 'is essentially the difference between political action and the codes of conduct, formal and informal, governing those actions'. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
pointes meete, perillous state, hir sonne, perpetuall peace, vir civilis, unsettled succession, imperiall crowne, trewe subjectes, act ment, monarchical republic, mixed polity, hir self, utramque partem, subsidy bill, diplomatic instructions, second parliament, privy council, northern earls, necessary consideration, principal secretary, succession crisis, northern rebellion Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Cotton Caligula, Queen of Scots, Mary Stuart, Maitland of Lethington, Bernard Hampton, John Guy, Queen Elizabeth, Sir Nicholas Throckmorton, Sir Thomas Smith, Conyers Read, William Cecil, Shane O'Neill, Thomas Randolph, Cotton Titus, John Knox, Sir Henry Sidney, British Protestant, Howard of Effingham, Treaty of Edinburgh, Thomas Norton, Richard Grafton, Catholic Europe, National Library of Scotland, Sir Francis Knollys, Sir Ralph Sadler New!
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- Mr. Secretary Cecil and Queen Elizabeth (Bedford History) by Conyers Read on 7 pages
- Tudor England by John Guy on 4 pages
- William Cecil: The Power Behind Elizabeth by Alan Gordon Smith on 4 pages
- Thomas Cromwell (Headstart History Papers) by Sir Geoffrey Elton in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- William Cecil, Lord Burghley (Headstart History Papers) by a G R Smith in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Scotland, England, and the Reformation 1534-1561 (Oxford Historical Monographs) by Clare Kellar on page 194, and Back Matter
- Unknown Shore: The Lost History of England's Arctic Colony by Robert Ruby in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Unknown Shore: The Lost History of England's Arctic Colony by Robert Ruby in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- England's Troubles: Seventeenth-Century English Political Instability in European Context by Jonathan Scott on page 57, and Back Matter
- Elizabethan Rhetoric: Theory and Practice (Ideas in Context) by Peter Mack in Front Matter, and Back Matter
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