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  3. Political Culture in the Reign of Elizabeth I
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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
August 2009
Print publication year:
1999
Online ISBN:
9780511495922
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511495922
Subjects:
History of Ideas, British History after 1450, History, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
Series:
Ideas in Context (56)
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Book description

In this major contribution to the Ideas in Context series Anne McLaren explores the consequences for English political culture when, with the accession of Elizabeth I, imperial 'kingship' came to be invested in the person of a female ruler. She looks at how Elizabeth managed to be queen, in the face of considerable male opposition, and demonstrates how that opposition was enacted. Dr McLaren argues that during Elizabeth's reign men were able to accept the rule of a woman partly by inventing a new definition of 'citizen', one that made it an exclusively male identity, and she emphasizes the continuities between Elizabeth's reign and the outbreak of the English civil wars in the seventeenth century. A significant work of cultural history informed by political thought, Political Culture in the Reign of Elizabeth I offers a wholesale reinterpretation of the political dynamics of the reign of Queen Elizabeth.

Awards

Winner of the 2000 Walter D. Love prize presented by the North American Conference of British Studies

Reviews

‘… McLaren is to be congratulated for her important achievement. by thoroughly excavating the gendered nature of political discourse in Elizabethan England; she has made a significant contribution to the reevaluation of the political culture and thought of the period.’

Markku Peltonen - University of Helsinki

‘… in dealing with such a wide variety of sources and commentators, McLaren places her work at the intersection of some of the most important themes in sixteenth-century English history.’

Source: Parliamentary History

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