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Informationen zum Autor Patrick Collinson is Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Trinity College Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction. This England: Race, nation, patriotism1. The politics of religion and the religion of politics in Elizabethan England2. The Elizabethan exclusion crisis and the Elizabethan polity3. Servants and citizens: Robert Beale and other Elizabethans4. Pulling the strings: religion and politics in the progress of 15785. Elizabeth I and the verdicts of history6. Biblical rhetoric: the English nation and national sentiment in the prophetic mode7. John Foxe and national consciousness8. Truth, lies, and fiction in sixteenth-century protestant historiography9. 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 antiquarianismIndex
