Simon Adams

Leicester and the court

Essays on Elizabethan politics

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Produktbeschreibung

A collection of sixteen essays by Simon Adams on Elizabethan history, centring around Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 434
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 655g
• ISBN-13: 9780719053252
• ISBN-10: 0719053250
• Artikelnr.: 21038824

Autorenporträt

Simon Adams is Reader in History at the University of Strathclyde

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Faction, clientage and party: English politics, 1550-1603
2. Eliza enthroned? The Court and its politics 3. Favourites and their
factions at the Elizabethan Court 4. The patronage of the crown in
Elizabethan politics: the 1550s in perspective 5. The Eltonian legacy:
politics 6. The Court as an economic institution 7. Queen Elizabeth's eyes
at Court: The Earl of Leicester 8. The Dudley clientele, 1553-63 9. A
Puritan crusade? The composition of Leicester's expedition to the
Netherlands, 1585-86 10. The Dudley clientele and the House of Commons,
1559-86 11. A godly peer? Leicester and the Puritans 12. The gentry of
north Wales and Leicester's expedition to the Netherlands, 1585-86 13. The
Composition of 1564 and Leicester's tenurial reformation in the lordship of
Denbigh 14. Office-holders of the borough of Denbigh and the lordships of
Denbighshire in the reign of Elizabeth I 15. 'Because I am of that countrye
& mynde to plant myself there': Leicester and the West Midlands 16.
Baronial contexts? Continutity and change in the noble affinity, 1400-1600
Index