This England : essays on the English nation and Commonwealth in the sixteenth century / Patrick Collinson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Collinson, Patrick.

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Politics, culture, and society in early modern Britain

Politics, culture and society in early modern Britain.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Great Britain--History--Tudors, 1485-1603.

Great Britain.

History.

Great Britain--Civilization--16th century.

Civilization.

Great Britain--Church history--16th century.

Church history.

Great Britain--Politics and government--1485-1603.

Politics and government.

Physical Description:

ix, 316 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Contents:

The Politics of religion and the religion of politics in Elizabethan England

The Elizabethan exclusion crisis and the Elizabethan polity

Servants and citizens: Robert Beale and other Elizabethans

Pulling the Strings: religion and politics in the progress of 1578

Elizabeth I and the verdicts of history

Biblical rhetoric: the English nation and national sentiment in the prophetic mode

John Foxe and national consciousness

Truth, lies, and fiction in sixteenth-century protestant historiography

One of Us? William Camden and the making of history

William Camden and the anti-myth of Elizabeth: Setting the mould?

John Stow and nostalgic antiquarianism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9780719084423

0719084423

OCLC:

746142471