The Elizabethan Secretariat and the Signet Office: The Production of State Papers, 1590�1596

ISBN-13: 9780367885472 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 204 str.

Angela Andreani

Opis

This book investigates the work of the Elizabethan secretariat during the fascinating decade of the 1590s. Through original sources in the State Papers and Cecil Papers, the book reconstructs the work of the Queen’s clerks and secretaries in the years when the position of principal secretary was formally vacant.

Spis treści

Introduction

1. The Context

2. The Cecil Papers at Hatfield House

3. Work in the Signet Office

4. The Royal Secretariat and the Signet Office

Conclusion

Appendix

O autorze

Angela Andreani is Folger Shakespeare Library short-term fellow, and has also been Marie Skłodowska Curie Intra-European research fellow at the University of Sussex.