Leicester and the court

Essays on Elizabethan politics

By: Simon Adams, Peter Lake (Editor), Anthony Milton (Editor), Jason Peacey (Editor), Alexandra Gajda (Editor)

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During the past 25 years Elizabethan history has been transformed by the work of Simon Adams. Famous for the depth and breadth of his research in libraries and archives throughout Britain, Western Europe and the USA, he has brought to life the most enigmatic of the greater Elizabethans: Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. Together with his edition of Leicester's accounts and his reconstruction of Leicester's papers, Adams has published numerous essays and articles on Leicester's influence and activities. They have reshaped our knowledge of Elizabeth and her Court, Parliament, the localities from Wales to Warwickshire and such subjects of recent debate as the power of the nobility and the noble affinity, the politics of faction and the role of patronage. Sixteen of Simon Adams' essays are found in this collection, organized into three groups: the Court, Leicester and his affinity, and Leicester and the regions. The collection ranges from much-cited essays in standard textbooks to papers at international conferences, as well as articles in a variety of journals.

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Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. x
Abbreviations and Conventions	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
The Elizabethan Court
Faction, clientage and party: English politics, 1550-1603	p. 13
Eliza enthroned? The Court and its politics	p. 24
Favourites and factions at the Elizabethan Court	p. 46
The patronage of the crown in Elizabethan politics: the 1590s in perspective	p. 68
The Eltonian legacy: politics	p. 95
The Court as an economic institution: the Court of Elizabeth I of England (1558-1603)	p. 114
The Earl of Leicester and His Affinity
Queen Elizabeth's eyes at Court: the Earl of Leicester	p. 133
The Dudley clientele, 1553-63	p. 151
A Puritan crusade? The composition of the Earl of Leicester's expedition to the Netherlands, 1585-86	p. 176
The Dudley clientele and the House of Commons, 1559-86	p. 196
A godly peer? Leicester and the Puritans	p. 225
The Earl of Leicester and the Regions
The gentry of north Wales and the Earl of Leicester's expedition to the Netherlands, 1585-86	p. 235
The Composition of 1564 and the Earl of Leicester's tenurial reformation in the lordship of Denbigh	p. 253
Office-holders of the borough of Denbigh and the lordships of Denbighshire in the reign of Elizabeth I	p. 293
'Because I am of that countrye and mynde to plant myself there': Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, and the West Midlands	p. 310
Baronial contexts? Continuity and change in the noble affinity, 1400-1600	p. 374
Index	p. 411
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