Elizabeth I and her circle
Parents and siblingsThe Suffolk cousins -- Mary Queen of Scots -- James VI of Scotland -- 'Eyes': Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester -- 'Lids': Sir Christopher Hatton -- Her 'most humble vassall': Robert Devereux, Second Earl of Essex -- The women who served -- 'Sir...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Oxford
Oxford Univ. Press
2015
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Parents and siblingsThe Suffolk cousins -- Mary Queen of Scots -- James VI of Scotland -- 'Eyes': Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester -- 'Lids': Sir Christopher Hatton -- Her 'most humble vassall': Robert Devereux, Second Earl of Essex -- The women who served -- 'Sir Spirit': Sir William Cecil, Lord Burghley -- The 'Moor': Sir Francis Walsingham -- The 'Pygmy': Sir Robert Cecil. This is the story of Elizabeth I's inner circle and the crucial human relationships which lay at the heart of her personal and political life. Using a wide range of original sources--including private letters, portraits, verse, drama, and state papers--Susan Doran provides a vivid and often dramatic account of political life in Elizabethan England and the queen at its center, offering a deeper insight into Elizabeth's emotional and political conduct--and challenging many of the popular myths that have grown up around her This is the story of Elizabeth I's inner circle and the crucial human relationships which lay at the heart of her personal and political life. Using a wide range of original sources--including private letters, portraits, verse, drama, and state papers--Susan Doran provides a vivid and often dramatic account of political life in Elizabethan England and the queen at its center, offering a deeper insight into Elizabeth's emotional and political conduct--and challenging many of the popular myths that have grown up around her |
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| Beschreibung: | Literaturverz. S. 360 - 379 |
| Beschreibung: | XIX, 397 S., [8] Bl. Ill. |
| ISBN: | 9780199574957 978-0-19-957495-7 0199574952 0-19-957495-2 |