Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Front matter i
2. Contents v
3. List of abbreviations vi
4. Acknowledgments vii
5. Introduction 1
6. 1 The politics of religion and the religion of politics in Elizabethan England 36
7. 2 The Elizabethan exclusion crisis and the Elizabethan polity 61
8. 3 Servants and citizens 98
9. 4 Pulling the strings 122
10. 5 Elizabeth I and the verdicts of history 143
11. 6 Biblical rhetoric 167
12. 7 John Foxe and national consciousness 193
13. 8 Truth, lies and fiction in sixteenth-century Protestant historiography 216
14. 9 One of us? 245
15. 10 William Camden and the anti-myth of Elizabeth 270
16. 11 John Stow and nostalgic antiquarianism 287
17. Index 309