Elizabeth I

In the Tudor age it was hard enough to be a king and doubly so to be a Queen. Elizabeth I survived!

• Elizabeth I is a popular historical obsession and with her four hundredth anniversary on the horizon (1603), time is right for a new illustrated edition of this hugely successful study.
• Examines Elizabeth in terms of her power rather than her politics
• Explores Elizabeth's relations with the Church, nobility, the royal Court, Parliament and the military and traces her relationships with the statesman of her time

This is the latest edition of the long time best-seller now with thirty illustrations added and available in a trade hardcover edition. As Elizabeth I, second edition, demonstrates, in the Tudor age it was hard enough to be a king: it was doubly hard to be a queen. Throughout her long reign, Elizabeth's target was survival, and she survived! Elizabeth I, second edition, tells us how.The reign of Elizabeth I was one of the most important periods of expansion and growth in British history, the so called 'Golden Age'. This celebrated and influential study of Elizabeth reconsiders how she achieved this and the ways in which she exercised her power. Elizabeth I second edition, looks at her role in government and the nation and examines Elizabeth in terms of her power rather than her policies, explores her relations with the statesmen of her time and shows how she interacted with the key institutions of sixteenth-century political life. Published in the very popular Profiles in Power series, this is not a biography, though inevitably it contains much biographical material, it instead analyzes the major features, achievements andfailures of Elizabeth's career.

Christopher Haigh University of Oxford

The reign of Elizabeth I was one of the most important periods of expansion and growth in British history - the "Golden Age". This celebrated and influential study reconsiders how Elizabeth achieved this, and the ways in which she exercised her power. It analyses the nature of her power through an examination of her relations with Parliament, the Council of Ministers, the Church, the nobility, military and the English people themselves.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 216-223) and index.