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Book SynopsisA celebration of Englishness in the sixteenth century. Appeals equally to students of early modern history and its literary culture, presenting a view of 'Tudor England' and offering a firmer historical background to evaluating the English Renaissance. -- .
Trade Review'There is much to enjoy and relish here; the pity is there will be no more essays from such a fertile mind.'
Kenneth Fincham, The Journal of Early Modern Studies, Vol XLIII, No. 4|'Highly recommended'
J. Berlatsky, CHOICE, May 2012, J. Berlatsky, CHOICE
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Table of ContentsIntroduction. 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 historiography
9. 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
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