Kristin M. S. Bezio

The Eye of the Crown (eBook, PDF)

The Development and Evolution of the Elizabethan Secret Service

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume discusses the development of governmental proto-bureaucracy, which led to and was influenced by the inclusion of professional agents and spies in the early modern English government.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. August 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000640199
• Artikelnr.: 64236821

Autorenporträt

Kristin M.S. Bezio is Associate Professor in the Jepson School of Leadership Studies at the University of Richmond, USA. Her background is in theater and early modern drama, and her publications include Staging Power in Tudor and Stuart History Plays (2015), "'Munday I Sweare Shalbee a Hollidaye': The Politics of Anthony Munday, from Anti-Catholic Spy to Civic Pageanteer (1579-1630)," in Études Anglaises (2018), and the edited volumes William Shakespeare & 21st Century Culture, Politics, and Leadership: Bard Bites with Anthony Presti Russell (2021), and Religion and the Medieval and Early Modern Global Marketplace (2021) and Religion and the Early Modern British Marketplace (2021), both co-edited with Scott Oldenburg.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Spycraft and Social Networks in Tudor England 1. New Monarchs
Reformation
and the Start of English Intelligence to 1553 2. Exiles
Diplomats
and William Cecil's Spies
1553-1570 3. Regnans in Excelsis
the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre
and the Foundation of Walsingham's Intelligence Service
1570-1579 4. Jesuit Priests and Double Agents
1580-1584 5. The Problem of Mary Queen of Scots
1585-1587 6. Empire
Armada
and Non-Conformity
1587-1590 7. Master Secretaries
1590-1598 8. Kingmaker and Spymaster
1599-1603 Conclusion: A New King in the Network