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This England : Essays on the English nation and Commonwealth in the sixteenth century /

This England is a celebration of 'Englishness' in the sixteenth century, and examines the growing conviction of 'Englishness' through the rapidly developing English language; the reinforcement of cultural nationalism as a result of the Protestant Reformation; the national and int...

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Autor principal: Collinson, Patrick (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester : Manchester University Press, [2011]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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  • List of abbreviations; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION This England: race, nation, patriotism; 1. The politics of religion and the religion of politics in Elizabethan England; 2. The Elizabethan exclusion crisis and the Elizabethan polity; 3. Servants and citizens: Robert Beale and other Elizabethans; 4. Pulling the strings: religion and politics in the progress of 1578; 5. Elizabeth I and the verdicts of history; 6. Biblical rhetoric: the English nation and national sentiment in the prophetic mode; 7. John Foxe and national consciousness.
  • 8. Truth, lies and fiction in sixteenth-century Protestant historiography9. One of us? William Camden and the making of history; 10. William Camden and the anti-myth of Elizabeth: setting the mould?; 11. John Stow and nostalgic antiquarianism; Index.