Patrick Collinson

This England

Essays on the English nation and Commonwealth in the sixteenth century

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A celebration of Englishness in the sixteenth century. Appeals equally to students of early modern history and its literary culture, presenting a view of 'Tudor England' and offering a firmer historical background to evaluating the English Renaissance.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 660g
• ISBN-13: 9780719084423
• ISBN-10: 0719084423
• Artikelnr.: 33615282

Autorenporträt

Patrick Collinson is Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Trinity College.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. This England: Race, nation, patriotism 1. The politics of
religion and the religion of politics in Elizabethan England 2. The
Elizabethan exclusion crisis and the Elizabethan polity 3. Servants and
citizens: Robert Beale and other Elizabethans 4. Pulling the strings:
religion and politics in the progress of 1578 5. Elizabeth I and the
verdicts of history 6. Biblical rhetoric: the English nation and national
sentiment in the prophetic mode 7. John Foxe and national consciousness 8.
Truth, lies, and fiction in sixteenth-century protestant historiography 9.
One of Us? William Camden and the making of history 10. William Camden and
the anti-myth of Elizabeth: Setting the mould? 11. John Stow and nostalgic
antiquarianism Index