J.P.Sommerville

 

VIII: 1558-1603 ELIZABETHAN GOVERNMENT

Q: What were the strengths and weaknesses of Elizabethan government?

 

The Queen

  1. JE Neale, Queen Elizabeth I
  2. C Haigh, Elizabeth I (2nd edition, 2000),

  3. Wallace T. MacCaffrey, Elizabeth I: War and Politics, 1588-1603 Princeton UP, 1981

 

Court and Government

  1. S Adams, 'Politics, faction and clientage in late Tudor England' History Today 32 (1982)
  2. AGR Smith, The government of Elizabethan England
  3. W T MacCaffrey 'Place and patronage in Elizabethan politics' in  S.T.Bindoff ed., Elizabethan government and society
  4. JE Neale, 'The Elizabethan age' and 'The Elizabethan political scene' in Essays in Elizabethan history
  5. P Williams, The Tudor regime
  6. L Stone, The crisis of the aristocracy (chapter on Office and the Court)
  7. J Hurstfield, The court of wards
  8. Michael A.R. Graves, Burghley: William Cecil, Lord Burghley. Profiles in Power. London and New York: Longman, 1998
  9. Paul E. J. Hammer,. The Polarisation of Elizabethan Politics. The Political Career of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, 1585-1597. Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
  10. John Guy ed., The Reign of Elizabeth I : Court and Culture in the Last Decade CUP 1995

 

Local government

  1. J Hurstfield 'County government, c.1530-c.1660' in Victoria History of the counties of England: Wiltshire, vol. V
  2. A Hassell Smith, County and court: Norfolk 1558-1603
  3.  P Clark, English provincial society: Kent
  4. D MacCulloch 'Catholic and puritan in Elizabethan Suffolk' Archiv fur Reformationsgeschichte 72 (1981)

 

Puritanism
see reading list X

 

The problem of government

  1. W T MacCaffrey, 'The crown and the new aristocracy' Past and Present 30 (1965)
  2. W T MacCaffrey, The shaping of the Elizabethan regime 1558-72
  3. W T MacCaffrey, Queen Elizabeth and the making of policy, 1572-88
  4. W T MacCaffrey, Elizabeth I: War and politics 1588-1603

 

Various topics

  1. C Haigh, The reign of Elizabeth I
  2. S Adams 'Favourites and Factions at the Elizabethan Court' in RG Asch and AM Burke ed., Princes, patronage and the nobility
  3.  NL Jones, Reformation by statute
  4. W MacCaffrey, Queen Elizabeth I
  5. John Bossy, Under the Molehill: An Elizabethan Spy Story YUP 2001
  6. John Bossy, Giordano Bruno and the Embassy affair, YUP 2002
  7. Patrick Collinson ed., The Sixteenth Century: 1485-1603 OUP 2002

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