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The cult of Elizabeth : Elizabethan portraiture and pageantry / Roy Strong

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: [London] : Pimlico, [1999]Description: 224 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780712664813
  • 9780712664813
Subject(s): Summary: 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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Includes bibliographical references and index

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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