Norman Jones

Governing by Virtue

Lord Burghley and the Management of Elizabethan England

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Produktbeschreibung

Governing by Virtue asks how a monarchy with no police force, no standing army, and little bureaucracy could rule England in the second half of the sixteenth century. Queen Elizabeth was the supreme ruler, but her chief manager Lord Burghley depended heavily on the virtue and honour of the ruling classes to keep the peace and defend the realm.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780199593606
• ISBN-10: 0199593604
• Artikelnr.: 47870272

Autorenporträt

Norman Jones studied under G. R. Elton, and his first book, Faith by Statute: Parliament and the Settlement of Religion 1559 (1982), won the Whitefield Prize from the Royal Historical Society. His other books include God and the Moneylenders: Usury and the Law in Early Modern England (1989); The Birth of the Elizabethan Age: England in the 1560s (1993), and The English Reformation: Religion and Cultural Adaptation (2002). He has co-edited a number of volumes with David Dean, Robert Tittler, Susan Doran, and Daniel Woolf. He has held a number of fellowships, including Visiting Senior Research Fellow at Jesus College, Oxford, where much of the work for this book was done.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: Managing Elizabethan England
2: Managing Virtuously
3: William Cecil, Lord Burghley, Manager
4: Managing Locally
5: Managing Through Perception
6: Managing Up and Managing Down
7: Managing Money
8: Managing War
9: Managing the Protestant State
10: Conclusion: Managing within the Possible
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