Preliminaries; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; CHAPTER 1 'To be Deborah': the political implications of providentialism under a female ruler; CHAPTER 2 Announcing the godly common weal: Knox, Aylmer and the parameters of counsel; CHAPTER 3 Feats of incorporation: the ideological bases of the mixed monarchy; CHAPTER 4 Contesting the social order: 'resistance theory' and the mixed monarchy; CHAPTER 5 Godly men and nobles: the bicephalic body politic; CHAPTER 6 Godly men and parliamentarians: the politics of counsel in the 1570s
CHAPTER 7 Rewriting the common weal: Sir Thomas Smith and the De Republica AnglorumAfterword; Bibliography; Index; Ideas in Context
Summary
In this major contribution to Ideas in Context Anne McLaren looks at how Elizabeth I managed to be queen, in the face of considerable male opposition. She examines the political context of Elizabeth's reign and demonstrates the continuities between it and the outbreak of the English civil war
