The name of a queen : William Fleetwood's Itinerarium ad Windsor / edited by Charles Beem and Dennis Moore.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Beem, Charles, author, editor.

Moore, Dennis, 1952- author, editor.

Series:

Queenship and power

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fleetwood, William, 1535?-1594. Itinerarium ad Windsor.

Fleetwood, William.

Queens--Great Britain--Early works to 1800.

Queens.

Authority--Early works to 1800.

Authority.

Physical Description:

203 pages ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Summary:

Itinerarium ad Windsor concerns a central question of the Elizabethan era: Why should a woman be allowed to rule with the same powers as a king? The man who poses this controversial question within Itinerarium is none other than Queen Elizabeth's powerful favorite Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. On hand to provide answers are the statesman and poet Thomas Sackville, Lord Buckhurst and William Fleetwood-antiquary, Recorder of London, and dutiful chronicler of their 1575 conversation. This critical edition of Itinerarium reproduces Fleetwood's text with annotations and a host of interpretive and contextualizing essays from leading scholars. Taken together, they constitute the definitive introduction to this remarkable discussion of regnant queenship, providing a valuable tool for understanding contemporary notions of, and underlying fears concerning, the efficacy and desirability of female rule in Elizabethan England. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction : the name of a queene / Dennis Moore

William Fleetwood's Itinerarium ad Windsor / edited by Dennis Moore

William Fleetwood and Itinerarium ad Windsor / Charles Beem

Itinerarium ad Windsor and Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester / Jacqueline Vanhoutte

"Marvellously given to be antiquaries" : William Fleetwood's Itinerarium and Thomas Sackville, Lord Buckhurst / Rivkah Zim

Wading in "the troublesome seas... of antiquityes" : William Fleetwood as antiquary and historian / James D. Alsop

Itinerarium ad Windsor and English queenship / Carole Levin and Charles Beem

"Bloody Mary"? : changing perceptions of England's first ruling queen / Sarah Duncan.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contains:

Fleetwood, William, 1535?-1594. Itinerarium ad Windsor.

ISBN:

9781137272010

1137272015

OCLC:

819641561