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Consuming Splendor
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 460

Consuming Splendor

A fascinating study of the ways in which consumption transformed social practices, gender roles, royal policies, and the economy in seventeenth-century England. It reveals for the first time the emergence of consumer society in seventeenth-century England.

The Mental World of the Jacobean Court
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 408

The Mental World of the Jacobean Court

New interpretations of Jacobean court culture by an international group of specialists.

Women of Fortune
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 362

Women of Fortune

Offers a compelling story of mercantile wealth and merchant heiresses who asserted their rights despite loss, imprisonment, and murder.

Court Patronage and Corruption in Early Stuart England
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 641

Court Patronage and Corruption in Early Stuart England

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2003-08-29
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This wide-ranging volume goes to the heart of the revisionist debate about the crisis of government that led to the English Civil War. The author tackles questions about the patronage that structured early modern society, arguing that the increase in royal bounty in the early seventeenth century redefined the corrupt practices that characterized early modern administration.

Court Patronage and Corruption in Early Stuart England
  • Language: en

Court Patronage and Corruption in Early Stuart England

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1993
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  • Publisher: Unknown

This wide-ranging volume goes to the heart of the revisionist debate about the crisis of government that led to the English Civil War. The author tackles questions about the patronage that structured early modern society, arguing that the increase in royal bounty in the early seventeenth century redefined the corrupt practices that characterized early modern administration.

The Varieties of British Political Thought, 1500-1800
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 372

The Varieties of British Political Thought, 1500-1800

A history of political debate and theory in England (later Britain) between the English Reformation and French Revolution.

Patronage in the Renaissance
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 406

Patronage in the Renaissance

  • Categories: Art

The fourteen essays in this collection explore the dominance of patronage in Renaissance politics, religion, theatre, and artistic life. Originally published in 1982. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

The Reign of Elizabeth I
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 329

The Reign of Elizabeth I

This book is about the politics and political culture of the 'last decade' of the reign of Elizabeth I, in effect the years 1585 to 1603. It argues that this period was so distinctive that it amounted to the second of two 'reigns'. It also invites readers, at times provocatively, to take a critical look at the declining Virgin Queen. Many teachers and their students have failed to consider the 'last decade' in its own right, or have ignored it, having begun their accounts in 1558 and struggled on to the defeat of the Armada in 1588. Only two major political surveys have been attempted since 1926. Both consider mainly the war with Spain and the politics of war, and each allots inadequate space to Crown patronage, puritanism and religion, society and the economy, political thought, and literature and drama. This book, written by some of the leading scholars of their generation, will be indispensable to a fuller understanding of the age.

The Secret Keeper
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 496

The Secret Keeper

A cloth bag containing ten copies of the title.

Gender, Family, and Politics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 221

Gender, Family, and Politics

Gender, Family, and Politics is the first full-length, gender-inclusive study of the Howard family, one of the pre-eminent families of early-modern Britain. Most of the existing scholarship on this aristocratic dynasty's political operation during the first half of the sixteenth-century centres on the male family members, and studies of the women of the early-modern period tends to focus on class or geographical location. Nicola Clark, however, places women and the question of kinship in centre-stage, arguing that this is necessary to understand the complexity of the early modern dynasty. A nuanced understanding of women's agency, dynastic identity, and politics allows us to more fully understand the political, social, religious, and cultural history of early-modern Britain.