Leicester And The Court

Author : Simon Adams
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719053252
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leicester and the Court written by Simon Adams and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now back in print, this comprehensive collection of essays by Simon Adams brings to life the most enigmatic of Elizabethans--Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. Adams, famous for the unique depth and breadth of his research, has gathered here his most important essays looking at the Elizabethan Court, and the adventures and legacy of the Earl.Together with his edition of Leicester's accounts and his reconstruction of Leicester's papers, Adams has published much upon on Leicester's influence and activities. His work has reshaped our knowledge of Elizabeth and her Court, Parliament, 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 essays are found in this collection, organized into three groups: the Court, Leicester and his affinity, and Leicester and the regions. This volume will be essential reading for academics and students interested in the Elizabethan Court and in early modern British politics more generally.

Author : Elizabeth Goldring
Publisher : Paul Mellon Ctr for Studies
ISBN 13 : 9780300192247
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, and the World of Elizabethan Art written by Elizabeth Goldring and published by Paul Mellon Ctr for Studies. This book was released on 2014 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first comprehensive survey of aristocratic art collecting and patronage in Elizabethan England, as seen through the activities of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester (ca. 1532-1588). One of the most fascinating and controversial people of his day, Leicester was also the most important patron of painters at the Elizabethan court. He amassed a substantial art collection, including commissioned works by Nicholas Hilliard, Paolo Veronese, and Federico Zuccaro; helped foster the birth of an English vernacular discourse on the visual arts; and was an early exponent, in England, of the Italian Renaissance view of the painter as the practitioner of a liberal art and, thus, fit company for the educated and well-born. Although Leicester’s picture collection and personal papers were widely dispersed after his death, this volume’s pioneering research reconstructs his lost world and, with it, a turning point in the history of British art. Some of the paintings featured here are little-known images from private collections, never before reproduced in color.

Author : John Nichols
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The history and antiquities of the county of Leicester written by John Nichols and published by . This book was released on 1810 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Laurie Johnson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009366491
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leicester's Men and their Plays written by Laurie Johnson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-09-30 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full history of the first great Elizabethan play company, responsible for developing the main features of Shakespearean theatre.

Author : Great Britain. HM Factory Inspectorate
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 934 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Factories and Workshops. Annual Report of the Chief Inspector of Factories and Workshops written by Great Britain. HM Factory Inspectorate and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 934 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Nicola Tallis
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1681777142
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elizabeth's Rival written by Nicola Tallis and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A kinswoman to Elizabeth I, Lettice Knollys had begun the Queen’s glittering reign basking in favor and success. It was an honor that she would enjoy for two decades. However, on the morning of September 21st, 1578, Lettice made a fateful decision. When the Queen learned of it, the consequences were swift. Lettice had dared to marry without the Queen’s consent. But worse, her new husband was Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, the Queen’s favorite and one-time suitor.Though she would not marry him herself, Elizabeth was fiercely jealous of any woman who showed an interest in Leicester. Knowing that she would likely earn the Queen’s enmity, Lettice married Leicester in secret, leading to her permanent banishment from court. Elizabeth never forgave the new Countess for what she perceived to be a devastating betrayal, and Lettice permanently forfeited her favor. She had become not just Queen Elizabeth’s adversary. She was her rival. But the Countess’ story does not end there. Surviving the death of two husbands and navigating the courts of three very different monarchs: Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, and Charles I, Lettice’s story offers an extraordinary and intimate perspective on the world she lived in.

Author : Elizabeth Jenkins
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 9781842125601
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elizabeth and Leicester written by Elizabeth Jenkins and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his own way Leicester was as mysterious a person as the Queen. His influence on her, from the beginning of her reign until his death in 1588, was constant and incalculable ¿ greater than that of anyone else save Burleigh ¿ though he was generally unpopular among his fellow courtiers, detested by the populace as a whole, and lampooned by the writers of the day. Leicester¿s complex character, his lavish entertaining, his encouragement of the arts, his day-by-day activities ¿ as courtier, Master of the Queen¿s Horse, Chancellor of Oxford, leader of the English forces in the war of the Netherlands against Spain ¿ are all brought vividly to life. First published in 1961.

Author : James Thompson (Author of A History of Leicester.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The history of Leicester ... written by James Thompson (Author of A History of Leicester.) and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James Thompson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 552 pages
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Download or read book The History of Leicester written by James Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James THOMPSON (Author of a “History of Leicester”.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of Leicester, from the Times of the Romans to the End of the Seventeenth Century written by James THOMPSON (Author of a “History of Leicester”.) and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: