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The following list of classic books and articles and more recent scholarship cannot possibly be exhaustive but does cover most valuable contributions on specific issues or Elizabethan background.
Adams, S.L., ‘Eliza Enthroned? The Court and its Polities’, in Haigh (ed.),
Reign of Elizabeth I,
pp.55–77
Allen, J.W.,
A History of Political Thought in the Sixteenth Century
(1964)
Andrews, K.R.,
Elizabethan Privateering: English Privateering during the Spanish War, 1585–1603
(Cambridge, 1964)
Archer, J.M.,
Sovereignty and Intelligence: Spying and Court Culture in the English Renaissance
(Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1993)
Aveling, J.C.H.,
The Handle and the Axe: The Catholic Recusants in England from Reformation to Emancipation
(1976)
Axton, M.,
The Queens’ Two Bodies: Drama and the Elizabethan Succession
(1977)
Bartlett, K.R., ‘The English Exile Community in Italy and the Political Opposition to Queen Mary I’,
Albion,
13 (1981)
Bartlett, K.R., ‘The Role of the Marian Exiles’, in P.W. Hasler (ed.),
The House of Commons, 1558–1603,
I, app. xi
Basing, P., ‘Robert Beale and the Queen of Scots’,
British Library Journal,
20 (1994), 65–82
Baumgartner, F.J.,
Radical Reactionaries: The Political Thought of the French Catholic League
(Geneva, 1975)
Bellamy, J.,
The Tudor Law of Treason
(Toronto, 1979)
Berry, L.E., (ed,),
John Stubbs’ Gaping Gulf, Folger Documents Series
(Virginia, 1968)
Bossy J.,
Under the Molehill: an Elizabethan Spy Story
(2001)
Bossy, J.,
Giordano Bruno and the Embassy Affair
(1991)
Camden, W.,
The History of the Most Renowned and Victorious Princess Elizabeth, Late Queen of England
(ed. W.T. MacCaffrey, Chicago, 1970)
Caraman, P.,
The Other Face, Catholic Life under Elizabeth I
(1960)
Clegg, C.B.,
Press Censorship in Elizabethan England
(1997)
Cliffe, J.T.,
The Puritan Gentry
(1984)
Cole, M.H.,
The Portable Queen: Elizabeth I and the Politics of Ceremony
(Amherst, Mass., 1999)
Collinson, P., ‘De republica Anglorum, or, History with the politics put back’, in P. Collinson,
Elizabethan Essays
(1994)
Collinson, P., ‘The Elizabethan Church and the New Religion’, in Haigh (ed.),
Reign of Elizabeth I,
pp.169–94
Collinson, P., ‘The monarchical republic of Queen Elizabeth I’,
The Tudor monarchy,
ed. J.A. Guy (1997), 110–34
Collinson, P.,
Archbishop Grindal, 1519–1583: The Struggle for a Reformed Church
(1980)
Collinson, P.,
Elizabethan Essays
(1994)
Collinson, P.,
Elizabethans
(2003)
Collinson, P.,
Godly People
(1983)
Collinson, P.,
Godly Rule: Essays on English Protestantism and Puritanism
(1983)
Collinson, P.,
The Elizabethan Puritan Movement
(1967)
Collinson, P.,
The English Captivity of Mary, Queen of Scots
(Sheffield, 1987)
Collinson, P.,
The Religion of Protestants: The Church in English Society, 1559–1625
(Oxford, 1982)
Davies, C.S.L.,
Peace, Print and Protestantism: 1450–1558
(1977)
Donaldson, G.,
All the Queen’s Men: Power and Politics in Mary Stewart’s Scotland
(1983)
Donaldson, G.,
The Scottish Reformation
(Cambridge, 1960)
Doran, S., ‘Revenge her Foul and most Unnatural Murder? The Impact of Mary Stewart’s Execution on Anglo-Scottish Relations’,
Historical Association,
85, 2000
Doran, S.,
Monarchy and Matrimony: the Courtships of Elizabeth I
(1996)
Edwards, E.,
Robert Persons: The Biography of an Elizabethan Jesuit
(St Louis, 1995)
Elton, G.R.,
England under the Tudors,
(1974)
Elton, G.R.,
Studies in Tudor and Stuart Politics and Government
(3 vols, Cambridge, 1974–83)
Elton, G.R.,
The Parliament of England 1559–1581
(Cambridge, 1986)
Elton, G.R.,
The Parliament of England, 1559–1581
(Cambridge, 1986)
Elton, G.R.,
The Tudor Constitution
(Cambridge 1960, 2nd edn 1982)
Elton, G.R.,
The Tudor Constitution: Documents and Commentary
(Cambridge, 1965)
Evans, F.M.G.,
The Principal Secretary of State: A survey of the Office from 1558 to 1680
(1923)
Foxe, J.,
The Acts and Monuments of John Foxe,
ed. G. Townsend (8 vols, 1843–9)
Garrett, C.H.,
The Marian Exiles: A study in the Origins of Elizabethan Puritanism
(1938)
Gee, H., and Hardy, W.J., (eds.),
Documents Illustrative of English Church History
(1910)
Graves, M., ‘Thomas Norton, the Parliament Man: An Elizabethan MP’,
Historical Journal,
23, 1, 1980
Graves, M.,
Thomas Norton, The Parliament Man
(Oxford, 1994)
Grell, O.,
Calvinist Exiles in Tudor and Stuart England
(Aldershot, 1996)
Guy, J.,
My Heart is my Own: The Life of Mary Queen of Scots
(2004)
Guy, J.,
Tudor England
(Oxford, 1990)
Haigh, C., (ed.),
The Reign of Elizabeth I
(1984)
Haller, W., (ed.),
Foxe’s Book of Martyrs and the Elect Nation
(1963)
Haugaard, W.P.,
Elizabeth and the English Reformation: The Struggle for a Stable Settlement of Religion
(Cambridge, 1970)
Haynes, A.,
The Elizabethan Secret Services
(Stroud, 2000)
Hoak, D., (ed.),
Tudor Political Culture
(Cambridge, 1995)
Holmes, P.J.,
Resistance and Compromise: The Political Thought of the Elizabethan Catholics
(Cambridge, 1982)
Holt, M.,
The Duke of Anjou and the Politique Struggle During the Wars of Religion
(1986)
Holt, M.P.,
The French Wars of Religion, 1562–1629
(Cambridge, 1995)
Israel, J.I.,
The Dutch Republic – its Rise, Greatness and Fall, 1477–1806
(Oxford, 1995)
James, M.,
Society, Politics and Culture: Studies in Early Modern England
(Cambridge, 1986)
Jensen, D.,
Diplomacy and Dogmatism: Bernardino de Mendoza and the French Catholic League
(1964)
Johnson, P.,
Elizabeth I: A Study in Power and Intellect
(1974)
Kingdon, R.,
Myths About the St Bartholomew’s Day Massacres 1572–76
(Cambridge, Mass., 1988)
Lake, P.G., ‘Calvinism and the English Church, 1570–1635’,
Past and Present
, no.114 (1987)
Lake, P.G.,
Moderate Puritans and the Elizabethan Church
(Cambridge, 1982)
Leimon, M. and Parker, G., ‘Treason and Plot in Elizabethan diplomacy: the “Fame of Sir Edward Stafford” Reconsidered’.
EngHR,
111 (1996)
Loades, D.M.,
England’s Maritime Empire – Seapower, Commerce and Policy 1490–1690
(2000)
Loades, D.M.,
Politics and the Nation, 1450–1660
(1974)
Loades, D.M.,
The Reign of Mary Tudor: Politics, Government, and Religion in England 1553–1558
(1979)
Loades, D.M.,
The Tudor Court
(1986)
MacCaffrey, W.T.,
Elizabeth I: War and Politics, 1588–1603
(1992)
MacCaffrey, W.T.,
Queen Elizabeth and the Making of Policy, 1572–1588
(Princeton, NJ, 1981)
MacCaffrey, W.T.,
The Shaping of the Elizabethan Regime: Elizabethan Politics, 1558–1572
(1968)
Manning, R.B., ‘The Crisis of Episcopal Authority during the Reign of Elizabeth I’,
Journal of British Studies,
11 (1971)
McCullough, D.E.,
Sermons at Court: Politics and Religion in Elizabethan and Jacobean Preaching
(Cambridge, 1998)
McDermott, J.,
England and the Spanish Armada: The Necessary Quarrel
(New Haven, 2005)
McGrath, P.,
Papists and Puritans under Elizabeth I
(1967)
Neale, J.E.,
Elizabeth I and her Parliaments
(2 vols, 1969)
Neale, J.E.,
The Elizabethan House of Commons
(1963)
Nolan, J.S.,
Sir John Norreys and the Elizabethan Military World
(Exeter, 1997)
Parker, G., ‘The Place of Tudor England in the Messianic Vision of Philip II of Spain’,
Transaction of the Royal Historical Society
2002
Parker, G.,
Spain and the Netherlands, 1559–1659
(1979)
Parker, G.,
The Dutch Revolt
(1977)
Parmalee, L.F.,
Good Newes from Fraunce: French Anti-League Propaganda in late Elizabethan England
(Rochester 1996)
Parry, J.H.,
The Spanish Seaborne Empire
(1966)
Pulman, M.B.,
The Elizabethan Privy Council in the 1570s
(Berkeley, Ca; 1971)
Read, C.,
Lord Burghley and Queen Elizabeth
(1960)
Read, C.,
Mr Secretary Cecil and Queen Elizabeth
(1955)
Seaver, P.S.,
The Puritan Lectureships: The Politics of Religious Dissent, 1560–1662
(Stanford, Ca., 1970)
Simon, J.,
Education and Society in Tudor England
(Cambridge, 1966)
Smith, A.G.R.,
The Government of Elizabethan England
(1967)
Smith, L.B.,
Treason in Tudor England: Politics and Paranoia
(1986)
Soman, A., (ed.),
The Massacre of St Bartholomew’s: Reappraisals and Documents
(The Hague, 1974)
Somerset, A.,
Elizabeth I
(1991)
Stewart, Alan,
Philip Sidney: A Double Life
(2000)
Stow, J.,
A Survey of London
(ed. C.L. Kingsford), 2 vols (Oxford, 1908)
Sutherland, N.M., ‘The Marian Exiles and the Establishment of the Elizabethan Regime’,
Archiv für Reformationgeschichte,
78, 1987
Trimble, W.R.,
The Catholic Laity in Elizabethan England
(1964)
Wernham, R.B.,
Before the Armada: The Emergence of the English Nation, 1485–1588
(New York, 1972)
Wernham, R.B.,
The Making of English Foreign Policy, 1558–1603
(Berkley, Ca, 1980)
Wilson, C.,
Queen Elizabeth I and the Revolt of the Netherlands
(1970)
Wilson, D.,
Sweet Robin: A Biography of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester 1553–1588
(1997)
Wilson, D.,
Uncrowned Kings of England: The Black Legend of the Dudleys
(2005)
Worden, B.,
The Sound of Virtue: Philip Sidney’s Arcadia and Elizabethan Politics
(1996)
Yates, F.,
Astraea: The Imperial Theme in the Sixteenth Century
(1975)
Yates, F.,
The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age
(1979)
A Discourse touching the pretended Match between the Duke of Norfolk and the Queen of Scots
61
,
62–3
,
65–6
A Letter to Queen Elizabeth touching her Marriage with Monsieur
244
‘A Plot for intelligence out of Spain’
231
Act of Uniformity
104
Admonition to the Parliament
64
Albigensian Crusade
21
Allen, William
105
,
130
,
132
,
183
,
184
,
208
,
234
Alva, Duke of (Fernando Alvarez de Toledo)
55–6
,
68
,
71–2
,
80
,
82
,
124
Anderson, Edmund
160
Angus, Earl of
166
Anjou
see
Francis, duc d’Anjou; Henri, duc d’Anjou
and
Henry III of France
Answer to a little book that was published against the marriage of the Duke of Norfolk and the Scottish Queen
63–5
Arcadia
243–4
Arundel, Earl of
61
,
74
,
175
,
184
,
208
Ascham, Roger
11
Aylmer, John (Bishop of London)
133
Babington, Anthony
209–12
see also
conspiracies
Bailley, Charles
71
Bale, John (Bishop of Ossory)
25
,
26–7
Barker, Christopher (printer)
109
Barlow, William (Bishop of Chichester)
34
Bartlett, John
64
Battle of Alcazar
123
Bawde, John
7
Beale, Robert
95–102
,
159
,
164
,
170
,
225
,
227
,
239
Beaton, James
164
Bible
112
English translation of
11
Bill, Dr William
34
Boleyn, Mary
8–9
Boleyn, Sir Thomas
8–9
Bond of Association
189–91
,
247–8
Book of Martyrs
(
Acts and Monuments of the Christian Religion
)
26
,
49
,
64
,
110
Bothwell, Earl of (James Hepburn) 52
see also
Mary Queen of Scots/Mary Stuart