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The Cult of Elizabeth
No other woman in world history has been of such compulsive interest as Elizabeth Tudor. While the rest of the 16th-century Europe was subject to the bloodshed of religious war, Tudor peace brought England its great flowering of the arts. Central to that flowering was the enigmatic legend of the Queen herself, a myth deliberately created and sustained over four decades by public spectacle and courtly chivalry, by private sonnet and official oration.
Postcolonial Amazons
Scholars have long been divided over whether the Amazons of Greek legend actually existed. Postcolonial Amazons offers a groundbreaking re-evaluation of the place of martial women in antiquity, bridging the gap between myth and reality by expanding our conception of the Amazon archetype to include the real female warriors of the ancient world.
The D'Amours Family in Canada
Nicholas Marsolet immigrated from France to Quebec in Canada in 1608, and his daughter, Marie Marsolet, married Mathieu d'Amours (ca. 1618- 1695) in 1652. Mathieu had immigrated in 1651 from Paris to Quebec City, and was active in the council and military affairs in Quebec and Acadia (Nova Scotia). Descendants and relatives lived in Quebec, Nova Scotia, Ontario and elsewhere. Some descendants immigrated to New England, Illinois, Wisconsin, Missouri and elsewhere.
John Nichols's The Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth: Volume II
The second volume in this annotated collection of texts relating to the 'progresses' of Queen Elizabeth I around England includes accounts of dramatic performances, orations, and poems, and a wealth of supplementary material dating from 1572 to 1578.
