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Elizabeth I and the Old Testament : biblical analogies and providential rule /
Throughout her reign, Elizabeth I and her supporters used biblical analogies to perpetuate the Queen's claim to be England's providential Protestant monarch. While Elizabeth's parallels with various biblical figures--including Deborah, Esther, Judith, David, Solomon, and Daniel--have...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leeds :
Arc Humanities Press,
[2023]
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| Colección: | Gender and power in the premodern world.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover
- Half-title
- Series information
- Title page
- Copyright information
- Dedication
- Table of contents
- List of figures
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations and Textual Conventions
- Dramatis Personae
- Introduction
- Gender and Female Kingship
- Biblical Analogy: A Contextual History
- Book Overview
- Chapter 1. Elizabeth I's Use of the Old Testament
- The Coronation Procession
- Precationes Privatae
- Christian Prayers and Meditations
- The Wisdom of Solomon
- "As Solomon, so I above all things have desired wisdom"
- Chapter 2. 1558-1569: Legitimizing the Regime
- Elizabeth and/as Deborah
- Restoring "the light of God's holy worde" to England
- The European Protestant Cause
- When the Swedish Sheba visited the English Solomon
- The 1566 Oxford "Visitation"
- Elizabeth's First Decade
- Chapter 3. 1570-1584: Popery, Plots, Progresses-and Excommunication
- Queen Excommunicated: Responses and Aftermath
- Refuting the Refuters
- Loyalty and Legitimacy
- Loyalty, Legitimacy, and the East Anglian Progress of 1578
- Enter the Jesuits
- Encouraging-or Cudgelling-Loyalty
- Embedding the Catholic Threat
- Chapter 4. 1585-1590: Biblical Typology and the Catholic Threat
- 1585: "wicked Traitors" meet God's "goodnes and providence"
- 1586: Official and Popular Responses
- 1587: Legitimizing Regicide
- 1588: The Deliverance that "passeth all others"
- 1589: The "continuall providence and preservation of God"
- 1590: Queen Assailed
- Dealing with the Catholic Threat, Typologically
- Chapter 5. 1591-1602: The Twilight Years and the Catholic Threat Redux
- In the Shadow of the Armada
- The Second and Third Armadas
- The Final Years: How Do You Solve a Problem Like Ireland?
- Triumphal Protestantism Meets "Our good Hezekia" and "our gracious Debora"
- Conclusion: Biblical Analogy and Providential Rule
- Select Bibliography
- Primary Sources
- Secondary Sources
- Index