Doubtful and Dangerous: The Question of Succession in Late Elizabethan England Contributor(s): Doran, Susan (Editor), Kewes, Paulina (Editor) |
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ISBN: 178499359X ISBN-13: 9781784993597 Publisher: Manchester University Press OUR PRICE: $36.05 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 2016 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Ireland - Political Science | History & Theory - General - History | Modern - 16th Century |
Dewey: 942.055 |
Series: Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain |
Physical Information: 0.76" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.15 lbs) 352 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Cultural Region - Ireland - Chronological Period - 16th Century |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Doubtful and dangerous examines the pivotal influence of the succession question on the politics, religion and culture of the post-Armada years of Queen Elizabeth's reign. Although the earlier Elizabethan succession controversy has long commanded scholarly attention, the later period has suffered from relative obscurity. This book remedies the situation. Taking a thematic and interdisciplinary approach, individual essays demonstrate that key late Elizabethan texts - literary, political and polemical - cannot be understood without reference to the succession. The essays also reveal how the issue affected court politics, lay at the heart of religious disputes, stimulated constitutional innovation, and shaped foreign relations. By situating the topic within its historiographical and chronological contexts, the editors offer a novel account of the whole reign. Interdisciplinary in scope and spanning the crucial transition from the Tudors to the Stuarts, the book will be indispensable to scholars and students of early modern British and Irish history, literature and religion. |