Leicester and the court : essays on Elizabethan politics
Sixteen of Simon Adams' essays are found in this collection, organized into three groups: the Court, Leicester and his affinity, and Leicester and the regions. The collection ranges from much-cited essays in standard textbooks to papers at international conferences, and articles from journals.
Print Book, English, 2001
Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2001
History
256 pages ; 24 cm.
9780719053245, 9780719053252, 0719053242, 0719053250
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Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Section A: The Elizabethan Court; 1. Faction, clientage and party: English politics, 1550-1603; 2. Eliza enthroned? The Court and its politics; 3. Favourites and factions at the Elizabethan Court; 4. The patronage of the Crown in Elizabethan politics The 1590s in perspective; 5. The Eltonian legacy: Politics; 6. The Court of Elizabeth l of England (1558-1603); Section B: The Earl of Leicester and his Affinity; 7. Queen Elizabeth's eyes at Court: The Earl of Leicester; 8. The Dudley clientele, 1553-63; 9. A Puritan Crusade? The personnel of the Earl of Leicester's expedition to the Netherlands, 1585-87; 10. The Dudley Clientele and the House of Commons, 1559-86; 11. A Godly Peer? Leicester and the Puritans; Section C: The Earl of Leicester and the regions; 12. The gentry of North Wales and the Earl of Leicester's expedition to the Netherlands, 1585-86; 13. The composition of 1564 and the Earl of Leicester's tenurial relomation in the Lordship of Denbigh; 14. Officeholders of the Borough of Denbigh and the Lordships of Denbighshire in the reign of Elizabeth; 15. 'Because I am of that Countrye & Mynde to Plant myself there'; Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester and the West Midlands; Baronial contexts? Continuity and change in the Nobel Affinity 1400-1600