JOHN NICHOLS'S THE PROGRESSES AND PUBLIC PROCESSIONS OF QUEEN ELIZABETH I by Elizabeth Goldring (Editor), Faith Eales (Editor), Elizabeth Clarke (Editor) ( 9780199205066 )

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JOHN NICHOLS'S THE PROGRESSES AND PUBLIC PROCESSIONS OF QUEEN ELIZABETH I
A NEW EDITION OF THE EARLY MODERN SOURCES (FIVE-VOLUME SET)

By:

Elizabeth Goldring (Editor), Faith Eales (Editor), Elizabeth Clarke (Editor)

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Multiple copy pack

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019920506X

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9780199205066

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OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

23 January, 2014

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4064

Description:

Queen Elizabeth I often used the summer months to embark on tours - or 'progresses' - of England, when she and her courtiers visited towns, cities, universities, and her subjects. This annotated collection of texts relating to the progresses includes accounts of dramatic performances, orations, and poems, and a wealth of supplementary material.

Synopsis:

John Nichols's The Progresses of Queen Elizabeth (1788-1823) has long been an indispensable reference tool for scholars working on Elizabethan court and culture - despite the serious limitations of an antiquarian edition now two centuries old. This old-spelling edition of the early modern materials contained in Nichols's Progresses is edited to high and consistent standards, and based on a critical re-examination of printed and manuscript sources. It is structured by a narrative of the two sets of annual progresses undertaken by Queen Elizabeth I: the 'summer progresses,' when Elizabeth travelled throughout southern England and the Midlands, visiting cities as far afield as Bristol, Coventry, Norwich, and Southampton; and the 'winter progresses,' when Elizabeth moved between her residences in and around London, including Richmond, Hampton Court, and Whitehall.New editions of the major progress entertainments - Kenilworth, Woodstock, Elvetham, Cowdray, Ditchley, and Harefield - are set alongside accounts of civic receptions, tilts and Accession Day entertainments, and non-dramatic texts, many of which have not been published since Nichols, including verses delivered by Eton scholars before the Queen (1563); John Lesley's Oratio (1574); Gabriel Harvey's Gratulationum Valdinensium (1578); and the Oxford and Cambridge verses on the death of Queen Elizabeth (1603). The editions are supported by translations of all non-English material, full scholarly annotation, illustrations, and maps. This will make John Nichols's The Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth: A New Edition of the Early Modern Sources the most comprehensive collection of early modern texts pertaining to the court and culture of Queen Elizabeth.

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80 black-and-white halftones; 20 colour plates; 13 maps

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Oxford University Press

Prizes:

Winner of Winner of the Roland H. Bainton Prize for Reference 2015; A TLS

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