Crompton S.W. Queen Elizabeth And England's Golden Age

The coronation was, and perhaps still is, one of the most important ceremonies of a monarch’s reign. This book examines the five coronations that took place in England between 1509 and 1559: those of Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I. It considers how the sacred rite and its related ceremonies and pageants responded to monarchical and religious change and charts how they were interpreted by contemporary observers. Hunt ch...

Palgrave Macmillan, 2011 - 248 p. ISBN10: 0230112145 ISBN13: 9780230112148 (eng) This collection brings together provocative essays examining various facets of Elizabethan foreign affairs, encompassing England and The British Isles, continental Europe, and the Islamic world. As an entirely domestic queen who never physically left her realm, Elizabeth I cast an inordinately large shadow internationally. The essays in this volume collectively reve...

London: Hambledon Continuum, 2003. - 462 p. Richard III is undoubtedly the dominant personality in this collection of essays, but not in his capacity as king of England. Richard was Duke of Gloucester far longer than he was king. For most of his career, he was a subject, not a monarch, the equal of the great nobility. He is seen here in the company of his fellows: Warwick the Kingmaker, Clarence, Northumberland, Somerset, Hastings a the Wydeville...

Bloomsbury, 1999. - 368 p. In his new text, Derek Hirst, one of the foremost living historians of seventeenth-century England, has created a wholesale revision of his classic Authority and Conflict and draws on a decade of new research that has appeared since the original book to produce a wholly fresh work. Centered around ambiguities of community in early modern England, the text enlivens debates over revisionism, Puritanism, the church, and w...

Oxford University Press, 2000. - 624 pp. ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0198228422 ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780198228424 The Glorious Revolution of 1688-9 was a decisive moment in England's history; an invading Dutch army forced James II to flee France, and his son-in-law and daughter, William and Mary, were crowned as joint sovereigns. The wider consequences were no less startling: war in Ireland, union with Scotland, Jacobite intrigue, deep involvement in two major E...

London: Ward and Downey, 1885. - 315 p. On the 22nd of August, 1485, King Richard III. fell at the battle of Bosworth Field. Three months later Oaxton gave to the world his magnum opus, the Golden Legend. The royal line of Plantagenet came to an untimely end; the Printing Press was fairly launched upon its beneficent mission. Two such events distinctly mark a new point of departure in the annals of our country, and suggest contrasts between the...

London: Ward and Downey, 1885. - 315 p. On the 22nd of August, 1485, King Richard III. fell at the battle of Bosworth Field. Three months later Oaxton gave to the world his magnum opus, the Golden Legend. The royal line of Plantagenet came to an untimely end; the Printing Press was fairly launched upon its beneficent mission. Two such events distinctly mark a new point of departure in the annals of our country, and suggest contrasts between the...

Boydell Press: 2008 - 296 p. ISBN10: 1843833999, ISBN13: 9781843833994 King Edgar ruled England for a short but significant period in the middle of the tenth century. Two of his four children succeeded him as king and two were to become canonized. He was known to later generations as 'the Pacific' or 'the Peaceable' because his reign was free from external attack and without internal dissention, and he presided over a period of major social and...

Routledge, 2002. - 320 p. ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0415207436 ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780415207430 Product Description: This collection draws together a fascinating selection of sources to illuminate this turbulent era of English history. From the bloody overthrow of Richard III in 1485, to the creation of a worldwide imperial state under Queen Anne, these sources illustrate England's difficult transition from the medieval to the modern. Divided into two p...

Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. - 256 pages. Elizabeth I as Icon examines how the image and memory of the queen has been used and viewed in the 400 years since her death. Beginning with how Elizabeth created her iconic status during her reign, the book goes on to explore ways in which this image has evolved over the years. Walker shows that centuries of social, cultural and political agenda have been given public appeal by the use of the dead queen's...