'A wall of defence unto this realm?' William Cecil, conformity and the state in early Elizabethan England
This article reassesses conceptions of the religious conformity required of public magistrates in the 1560s through the prism of William Cecil’s schemes for reformation of the state. Scholars have argued that ‘the Crown’s’ aims in defining the conformity of subjects were ‘political’ rather than ‘eva...
Main Author: | Gajda, A |
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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2024
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