Elizabeth I and the Old Testament : biblical analogies and providential rule

Elizabeth I and the Old Testament : biblical analogies and providential rule / Aidan Norrie.

Throughout her reign, Elizabeth I and her supporters used biblical analogies to perpetuate the Queen's claim to be England's providential Protestant monarch. While Elizabeth's parallels with various biblical figures--including Deborah, Esther, Judith, David, Solomon, and Daniel--have...

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Main Author: Norrie, Aidan (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leeds : Arc Humanities Press, [2023]
Series:Gender and power in the premodern world.
Subjects:
Elizabeth > I, > Queen of England, > 1533-1603
1500-1599
Divine right of kings.
Bible and politics > England > History > 16th century.
HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Tudor & Elizabethan Era (1485-1603).
Divine right of kings
Bible and politics
England
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Cover
  • Half-title
  • Series information
  • Title page
  • Copyright information
  • Dedication
  • Table of contents
  • List of figures
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations and Textual Conventions
  • Dramatis Personae
  • Introduction
  • Gender and Female Kingship
  • Biblical Analogy: A Contextual History
  • Book Overview
  • Chapter 1. Elizabeth I's Use of the Old Testament
  • The Coronation Procession
  • Precationes Privatae
  • Christian Prayers and Meditations
  • The Wisdom of Solomon
  • "As Solomon, so I above all things have desired wisdom"
  • Chapter 2. 1558-1569: Legitimizing the Regime
  • Elizabeth and/as Deborah
  • Restoring "the light of God's holy worde" to England
  • The European Protestant Cause
  • When the Swedish Sheba visited the English Solomon
  • The 1566 Oxford "Visitation"
  • Elizabeth's First Decade
  • Chapter 3. 1570-1584: Popery, Plots, Progresses-and Excommunication
  • Queen Excommunicated: Responses and Aftermath
  • Refuting the Refuters
  • Loyalty and Legitimacy
  • Loyalty, Legitimacy, and the East Anglian Progress of 1578
  • Enter the Jesuits
  • Encouraging-or Cudgelling-Loyalty
  • Embedding the Catholic Threat
  • Chapter 4. 1585-1590: Biblical Typology and the Catholic Threat
  • 1585: "wicked Traitors" meet God's "goodnes and providence"
  • 1586: Official and Popular Responses
  • 1587: Legitimizing Regicide
  • 1588: The Deliverance that "passeth all others"
  • 1589: The "continuall providence and preservation of God"
  • 1590: Queen Assailed
  • Dealing with the Catholic Threat, Typologically
  • Chapter 5. 1591-1602: The Twilight Years and the Catholic Threat Redux
  • In the Shadow of the Armada
  • The Second and Third Armadas
  • The Final Years: How Do You Solve a Problem Like Ireland?
  • Triumphal Protestantism Meets "Our good Hezekia" and "our gracious Debora"
  • Conclusion: Biblical Analogy and Providential Rule
  • Select Bibliography
  • Primary Sources
  • Secondary Sources
  • Index

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