DownloadThe Portobello Bookshop Gift Guide 2024

This England

Essays on the English Nation and Commonwealth in the Sixteenth Century

Patrick Collinson author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Manchester University Press

Published:28th Feb '13

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

This England cover

Patrick Collinson was one of Britain’s foremost early modern historians. This volume collects together a number of his most interesting and least easily accessible essays with a thoughtful introduction written specifically for this book.

This England is a celebration of ‘Englishness’ in the sixteenth century. It explores the growing conviction of ‘Englishness’ through the rapidly developing English language; the reinforcement of cultural nationalism as a result of the Protestant Reformation; the national and international situation of England at a time of acute national catastrophe; and of Queen Elizabeth I, the last of her line, remaining unmarried, refusing to even discuss the succession to her throne.

Introducing students of the period to an aspect of history largely neglected in the current vogue for histories of the Tudors, Collinson investigates the rising role of English, of England’s God-centredness, before focusing on the role of Elizabethans as citizens rather than mere subjects. It responds to a demand for a history which is no less social than political, and investigates what it meant to be a citizen of early modern England, living through the 1570s and 1580s.

'There is much to enjoy and relish here; the pity is there will be no more essays from such a fertile mind.'
Kenneth Fincham, The Journal of Early Modern Studies, Vol XLIII, No. 4|'Highly recommended'
J. Berlatsky, CHOICE, May 2012, J. Berlatsky, CHOICE

ISBN: 9780719090257

Dimensions: 234mm x 156mm x 17mm

Weight: 463g

328 pages