The Cult Of Elizabeth

Strong, R

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.

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Roy Strong’s acclaimed examination of the rich, allegorical iconography and court spectacles surrounding Elizabeth I.

EAN

9780712664813

Publisher

Pimlico

Published

4 November 1999

Pages

224

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