Leicester and the court

Autorentext
Simon Adams is Reader in History at the University of Strathclyde

Klappentext
A collection of sixteen essays by Simon Adams on Elizabethan history, centring around Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester.

Inhalt
Introduction 1. Faction, clientage and party: English politics, 1550-1603 2. Eliza enthroned? The Court and its politics 3. Favourites and their factions at the Elizabethan Court 4. The patronage of the crown in Elizabethan politics: the 1550s in perspective 5. The Eltonian legacy: politics 6. The Court as an economic institution 7. Queen Elizabeth's eyes at Court: The Earl of Leicester 8. The Dudley clientele, 1553-63 9. A Puritan crusade? The composition of Leicester's expedition to the Netherlands, 1585-86 10. The Dudley clientele and the House of Commons, 1559-86 11. A godly peer? Leicester and the Puritans 12. The gentry of north Wales and Leicester's expedition to the Netherlands, 1585-86 13. The Composition of 1564 and Leicester's tenurial reformation in the lordship of Denbigh 14. Office-holders of the borough of Denbigh and the lordships of Denbighshire in the reign of Elizabeth I 15. 'Because I am of that countrye & mynde to plant myself there': Leicester and the West Midlands 16. Baronial contexts? Continutity and change in the noble affinity, 1400-1600 Index

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