<strong>Elizabeth I</strong>A sustained reflection on the nature of Elizabethan power that willchallenge historians for a long time to come History TodayThe rei... » 

Elizabeth IA sustained reflection on the nature of Elizabethan power that willchallenge historians for a long time to come History TodayThe reign of Elizabeth I was one of the most important periods of expansion andgrowth in British history the so called Golden Age.This celebrated and influential study of Elizabeth reconsiders how she achievedthis and the ways in which she exercised her power. Looking at her role ingovernment and in the nation itexamines Elizabeth in terms of her power rather than her policiesexplores her relations with the statesman of her timeshows how she interacted with the key institutions of sixteenth centurypolitical life.As this invaluable account shows in the Tudor age it was hard enough to be aking it was doubly hard to be a queen. Throughout her long reign Elizabethstarget was survival. And she survived. This introduction to Elizabeth I tellsus how.Christopher Haigh is Student and Tutor in Modern History at Christ Church anda lecturer in Modern History at the University of Oxford. «