Elizabeth I
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Elizabeth I
E. Arnold, 1994
- : pbk
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Elizabeth the First
Available at 3 libraries
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First published in hard cover in 1993
Includes bibliographical references (p. [451]-472) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In this major biography of the queen, Wallace MacCaffrey focuses on Elizabeth's career as a practicing politician, taking into account her testing personal experience, her temperament, her own view of her role and the constraints she frequently faced whether imposed by the inheritance from her predecessors or by contemporary events. The Elizabeth who emerges from these pages has a more human appearance than the stiff, richly garbed, bejeweled Elizabeth of the royal portraits. She is more fallible. And more interesting.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 The Lady Elizabeth: Princess Elizabeth
- the second person. Part 2 The apprentice Queen: making a government
- the legacies of the past
- the religious settlement
- the pacification of Scotland
- the rise of Dudley
- marriage and succession. Part 3 Elizabeth and Mary: the coming of Mary Stuart
- the Norfolk marriage
- the Northern rebellion
- the Ridolfi plot. Part 4 The struggle for peace: England and her continental neighbours
- the crises of 1572 and their aftermath
- England and the States General 1576-79
- the Anjou match
- the coming of war. Part 5 The waging of war: Armada and counter-Armada
- the alliance with Henry IV
- the alliance with the States General
- the assault on Spain
- edging towards peace. Part 6 The practice of statecraft: the 1559 settlement
- the rise of the reformers
- the Puritans in Parliament
- Grindal and Whitgift
- the Queen and her Catholic subjects
- conspiracy and repression
- the end of Mary Stuart
- the Queen and her constituencies
- an economical queen. Part 7 The end of a reign: the Earl of Essex
- the Queen and Ireland
- the Queen and her successor.
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