| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
I. MARIAN MOMENT -- 1. Libellous Politics and the Paradoxes of Publicity: The Case/s For and Against Mary Stuart -- 2. Plots, Pamphlets, and Parliament -- 3. Treatise of Treasons in Context/s -- II. CATHOLIC LOYALIST MOMENT -- 4. Anjou Match and its Consequences -- 5. Getting Your Retaliation in First: Leicester's Commonwealth in Context/s -- 6. Challenge and Response: Leslie, Allen, and Parsons and the (Catholic) Origins of the ̀Monarchical Republic of Elizabeth I' -- III. BURGHLEY'S COMMONWEALTH -- 7. ̀Monarchical Republicanism', or the Vain Pursuit of Burghley's Commonwealth -- 8. Replying in Practice and in Theory: The Strange Fate of William Parry and a Very Long Tract by Thomas Bilson -- 9. Beyond Monarchical Republicanism -- IV. ROGUE STATES AND UNIVERSAL MONARCHS -- 10. How to Answer a Libel, or French Pamphlets and English Politics -- 11. Going Papal -- V. REGICIDAL MOMENT -- 12. Killing a Queen, and its Consequences -- 13. Burghley (and the Queen) Tell the World What They Really Think -- VI. RESISTANCE AND COMPROMISE? -- 14. Evil Counsel, Again -- 15. Politics/Religion, Religion/Politics -- VII. RIPOSTES AND REPLIES -- 16. How (Not) to Answer a Libel -- 17. Plots, Pamphlets, and Plays, or the Return of Plot Talk and the Tragicomic Fate of Dr Lopez |
| Summary |
This title explores the role of plot talk, conspiracy theory, and libellous secret history during the Elizabethan regime, analysing the back and forth between Catholic critics and William Cecil and his circle, and the effect this had on the political, cultural, intellectual, and religious history of the time, both in England, and in a wider European context |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed November 25, 2015) |
| Subject |
Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603
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| SUBJECT |
Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603 fast |
| Subject |
HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain.
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| SUBJECT |
Great Britain -- History -- Elizabeth, 1558-1603.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056783
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| Subject |
Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191068652 |
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0191068659 |
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9780191815744 |
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0191815748 |
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