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The Elizabethan Secretariat and the Signet Office - The Production of State Papers, 1590 1596 (Paperback)
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The Elizabethan Secretariat and the Signet Office - The Production of State Papers, 1590 1596 (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Renaissance and Early Modern Worlds of Knowledge
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This book investigates the work of the Elizabethan secretariat
during the fascinating decade of the 1590s, when, after the death
of Francis Walsingham, the place of principal secretary remained
vacant for six years. Through original sources in the collections
of the State Papers and Cecil Papers, this study reconstructs the
activities of the clerks and secretaries who worked in close
contact with the Queen at court. An estimated fifty people, many
unidentified, saw to every minute detail of the production of
official documents and letters in an array of offices, rooms and
locations within and outside the court. The book introduces the
staff of the Elizabethan writing offices as a community of shared
knowledge with a privileged and constant access to papers of state,
working behind the scenes of court display and high politics. While
the production of the state papers is explored as a means to
re-construct the functioning of the inner mechanisms of state, it
also provides a lens through which to access the knowledge of the
administration in a pre-bureaucratic age.
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