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University of St Andrews. Abstract. The marriage negotiations between Elizabeth and Francis, duke of Anjou, have an important lens for exploring the nature of the Elizabethan polity. Conyers that Elizabeth deliberately exploited courtship rituals to gain ascendancy over and foreign princes.
Oct 1, 2001 · Courtship rituals were adopted to express relationships between Elizabeth and her courtiers, but these reflected a revival of chivalric court culture and were not adopted as forms of political...
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Title Elizabeth I and the Policy of Marriage: the Anjou Match, 1572-1582 Department History Degree Master of Arts In presenting this thesis in partial fulfillment of the requirements for a graduate degree from the University of North Dakota, I agree that the library of this University shall make it freely available for inspection.
The outburst of hostility was an element in a wider struggle for political influence which began with the fall of Archbishop Grindal in 1577. Puritans sought to magnify the threat posed by the apparently Catholic Family to indirectly assail their conservative enemies.
There were many political advantages to be gained from this alliance, for example influence over French policy in the Netherlands, and Elizabeth used this to her advantage.
May 20, 2019 · Thus, Elizabeth used the prospect of marriage to the Queen of England as an important aspect of international diplomacy for the first half of her reign. Elizabeth skillfully maneuvered through courtships modifying both her words and actions to achieve the desired result.
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Jan 16, 2014 · It is the purpose of this paper to explore the origins of the Angevin empire, and in particular the union of its two chief components — the Anglo-Norman state and the county of Anjou. Did the empire come about by accident or by political design? And if by design, who was its architect?
