Overview
- Considers issues of gender, monarchical republicanism and freedom of speech in Elizabethan England
- Examines succession tracts that emerged in Elizabeth's reign and the context of debates over royal succession
- Uses the succession question in Elizabeth England to explore the workings of early modern British government
Part of the book series: Queenship and Power (QAP)
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Keywords
- Parliament
- Government
- Henry VIII
- The Tudors
- Monarchy
- Privy Council
- Elizabeth I
- Elizabethan England
- Succession
- Queenship
- English law
- Succession tracts
About this book
This book examines the succession debate in England during the reign of Elizabeth I. It considers the succession question in its entirety, instead of dividing the topic into early or late periods as has been typically the case. Commencing with a consideration of the succession tracts and the laws which governed the succession, this book seeks to examine the matter in terms of its original sixteenth-century context and how the participants of the debate understood the issue. With the succession issue outlined, the main parties of the debate – those being the Queen, her Privy Council and Parliament – are considered in turn, exploring the effect of the succession debate upon English considerations of government and royal prerogative.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Elizabeth Tunstall is a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Adelaide, Australia. She received a PhD from the University of Melbourne and has published research on Elizabethan England.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Succession Debate and Contested Authority in Elizabethan England, 1558-1603
Authors: Elizabeth Tunstall
Series Title: Queenship and Power
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-58892-1Due: 03 October 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-58895-2Due: 03 October 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-58893-8Due: 03 October 2024
Series ISSN: 2730-938X
Series E-ISSN: 2730-9398
Edition Number: 1
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations