Governing by Virtue: Lord Burghley and the Management of Elizabethan England

by Norman L. Jones

Managing early modern England was difficult because the state was weak. Although Queen Elizabeth was the supreme ruler, she had little bureaucracy, no standing army, and no police force. This meant that her chief manager, Lord Burghley, had to work with the gentlemen of the magisterial classes in order to keep the peace and defend the realm. He did this successfully by employing the shared value systems of the ruling classes, an improved information...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199593604
• ISBN13: 9780199593606
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.3"