TY - BOOK AU - Collinson,Patrick TI - This England: Essays on the English nation and Commonwealth in the sixteenth century T2 - Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain SN - 9781847794154 AV - DA315 .T457 2011 PY - 2011/// CY - Manchester PB - Manchester University Press KW - England KW - Geschichte 1500-1600 KW - Great Britain KW - Church history KW - 16th century KW - Civilization KW - History KW - Elizabeth, 1558-1603 KW - Tudors, 1485-1603 KW - Politics and government KW - 1485-1603 KW - Nationalbewusstsein KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; Copyright; Contents; List of abbreviations; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION 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 historiography9. 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; Index; 2; b N2 - This England? is a celebration of?Englishness? in the sixteenth century, explores the growing conviction of?Englishness? through the rapidly developing English language; the reinforcement of cultural nationalism as a result of the Protestant Reformation; the national and international situation of England at a time of acute national catastrophe; and of Queen Elizabeth 1, the last of her line, remaining unmarried, refusing to even discuss the succession to her throne. Introducing students of the period to an aspect of history largely neglected in the current vogue for histories of the Tudors UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=514935&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -