During the past 25 years Elizabethan history has been transformed by the work of Simon Adams. Famous for the depth and breadth of his research in libraries and archives throughout Britain, Western Europe and the USA, he has brought to life the most enigmatic of the greater Elizabethans: Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. Together with his edition of Leicester's accounts and his reconstruction of Leicester's papers, Adams has published numerous essays and articles on Leicester's influence and activities. They have reshaped our knowledge of Elizabeth and her Court, Parliament, the localities from Wales to Warwickshire and such subjects of recent debate as the power of the nobility and the noble affinity, the politics of faction and the role of patronage. Sixteen of Simon Adams' essays are found in this collection, organized into three groups: the Court, Leicester and his affinity, and Leicester and the regions. The collection ranges from much-cited essays in standard textbooks to papers at international conferences, as well as articles in a variety of journals.
During the past 25 years Elizabethan history has been transformed by the work of Simon Adams. Famous for the depth and breadth of his research in libraries and archives throughout Britain, Western Europe and the USA, he has brought to life the most enigmatic of the greater Elizabethans: Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. Together with his edition of Leicester's accounts and his reconstruction of Leicester's papers, Adams has published numerous essays and articles on Leicester's influence and activities. They have reshaped our knowledge of Elizabeth and her Court, Parliament, the localities from Wales to Warwickshire and such subjects of recent debate as the power of the nobility and the noble affinity, the politics of faction and the role of patronage. Sixteen of Simon Adams' essays are found in this collection, organized into three groups: the Court, Leicester and his affinity, and Leicester and the regions. The collection ranges from much-cited essays in standard textbooks to papers at international conferences, as well as articles in a variety of journals.
Introduction
1. Faction, clientage and party: English politics, 1550–1603
2. Eliza enthroned? The Court and its politics
3. Favourites and their factions at the Elizabethan Court
4. The patronage of the crown in Elizabethan politics: the 1550s in
perspective
5. The Eltonian legacy: politics
6. The Court as an economic institution
7. Queen Elizabeth’s eyes at Court: The Earl of Leicester
8. The Dudley clientele, 1553–63
9. A Puritan crusade? The composition of Leicester’s expedition to
the Netherlands, 1585–86
10. The Dudley clientele and the House of Commons, 1559–86
11. A godly peer? Leicester and the Puritans
12. The gentry of north Wales and Leicester’s expedition to the
Netherlands, 1585–86
13. The Composition of 1564 and Leicester’s tenurial reformation in
the lordship of Denbigh
14. Office-holders of the borough of Denbigh and the lordships of
Denbighshire in the reign of Elizabeth I
15. ‘Because I am of that countrye & mynde to plant myself there’:
Leicester and the West Midlands
16. Baronial contexts? Continutity and change in the noble
affinity, 1400–1600
Index
Simon Adams is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Strathclyde
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