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The Earl of Essex and Late Elizabethan Political Culture (Hardcover)
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The Earl of Essex and Late Elizabethan Political Culture (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Historical Monographs
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In sixteenth-century England Robert Devereux, 2nd earl of Essex,
enjoyed great domestic and international renown as a favourite of
Elizabeth I. He was a soldier and a statesman of exceptionally
powerful ambition. After his disastrous uprising in 1601 Essex fell
from the heights of fame and favour, and ended his life as a
traitor on the scaffold. This interdisciplinary account of the
political culture of late Elizabethan England explores the
ideological contexts of Essex's extraordinary career and fall from
grace, and the intricate relationship between thought and action in
Elizabethan England. By the late sixteenth century, fundamental
political models and vocabularies that were employed to legitimise
the Elizabethan polity were undermined by the strains of war, the
ambivalence that many felt towards the church, continued
uncertainty over the succession, and the perceived weaknesses of
the rule of the aging Elizabeth. Essex's career and revolt threw
all of these strains into relief. Alexandra Gajda examines the
attitude of the earl and his followers to war, religion, the
structures of the Elizabethan polity, and Essex's role within it.
She also explores the classical and historical scholarship prized
by Essex and his associates that gave shape and meaning to the
earl's increasingly fractured relationship with the Queen and
regime. She addresses contemporary responses to the earl, both
positive and negative, and the earl's wider impact on political
culture. Political and religious ideas in late sixteenth-century
England had an important impact on political events in early modern
England, and played a vital role in shaping the rise and fall of
Essex's career.
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