Making history from the moment of her birth, England's Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603) was a legend within her own lifetime. The legends that have grown up around Elizabeth are fascinating, but as this book shows, the truth is just as remarkable.

Early Modern Visual Culture Representation, Race, and Empire in Renaissance England Edited by Peter Erickson and Clark Hulse "As a picture of what currently might be most profitably studied in the visual culture of early modern England, and of how to conduct scholarship in the field, the volume is exemplary. . . . It] treats a culture for which there is considerable scholarly interest, but from angles which have been woefully ignored up until now."--Joseph Koerner, Harvard University An interdisciplinary group of scholars applies the reinterpretive concept of "visual culture" to the English...