The Name of a Queen: William Fleetwood's Itinerarium AD Windsor

by Charles Beem

Book Overview

Itinerarium ad Windsor concerns a central question of the Elizabethan era: Why should a woman be allowed to rule with the same powers as a king? The man who poses this controversial question within Itinerarium is none other than Queen Elizabeth's powerful favorite Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. On hand to provide answers are the statesman and poet Thomas Sackville, Lord Buckhurst, and William Fleetwood antiquary, Recorder of London, and dutiful...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349444766
• ISBN13: 9781349444762
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 203 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"