Free Download Jerry Brotton, "This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World"
English | 2016 | pages: 288 | ISBN: 0241004020 | EPUB | 40,9 mb
In 1570, when it became clear she would never be gathered into the Catholic fold, Elizabeth I was excommunicated by the Pope. On the principle that 'my enemy's enemy is my friend', this marked the beginning of an extraordinary English alignment with the Muslim powers who were fighting Catholic Spain in the Mediterranean, and of cultural, economic and political exchanges with the Islamic world of a depth not again experienced until the modern age. England signed treaties with the Ottoman Porte, received ambassadors from the kings of Morocco and shipped munitions to Marrakesh. By the late 1580s hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Elizabethan merchants, diplomats, sailors, artisans and privateers were plying their trade from Morocco to Persia. These included the resourceful mercer Anthony Jenkinson who met both Süleyman the Magnificent and the Persian Shah Tahmasp in the 1560s, William Harborne, the Norfolk merchant who became the first English ambassador to the Ottoman court in 1582 and the adventurer Sir Anthony Sherley, who spent much of 1600 at the court of Shah Abbas the Great. The previous year, remarkably, Elizabeth sent the Lancastrian blacksmith Thomas Dallam to the Ottoman capital to play his clockwork organ in front of Sultan Mehmed. The awareness of Islam which these Englishmen brought home found its way into many of the great cultural productions of the day, including most famously Marlowe's Tamburlaine, and Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus and The Merchant of Venice. The year after Dallam's expedition the Moroccan ambassador, Abd al-Wahid bin Mohammed al-Annuri, spent six months in London with his entourage. Shakespeare wrote Othello six months later. This Orient Isle shows that England's relations with the Muslim world were far more extensive, and often more amicable, than we have appreciated, and that their influence was felt across the political, commercial and domestic landscape of Elizabethan England. It is a startlingly unfamiliar picture of part of our national and international history.

Free Download George Koppelman, Daniel Wechsler, "Shakespeare's Beehive: An Annotated Elizabethan Dictionary Comes to Light"
English | 2015 | pages: 403 | ISBN: 0991573005 | EPUB | 3,5 mb
George Koppelman and Daniel Wechsler's extraordinary account of their acquisition and subsequent research into an annotated Elizabethan dictionary published in London in 1580.

Free Download Elizabethan Poetry in Manuscript: An Edition of British Library Harley MS 7392(2)
by Jessica Edmondes
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1649590202 | 498 Pages | True PDF | 24.6 MB

Felicity Stout, "Exploring Russia in the Elizabethan commonwealth: The Muscovy Company and Giles Fletcher, the elder (1546-1611) "
English | ISBN: 0719097002 | 2015 | 272 pages | EPUB | 893 KB
Exploring Russia in the Elizabethan Commonwealth tells the story of English relations with Russia, from the 'strange and wonderfull discoverie' of the land and Elizabeth I's correspondence with Ivan the Terrible, to the corruption of the Muscovy Company and the Elizabethan regime's censorship of politically sensitive representations of Russia. Focusing on the life and works of Giles Fletcher, the elder, ambassador to Russia in 1588, this work explores two popular themes in Elizabethan history: exploration, travel and trade and late Elizabethan political culture. By analysing the pervasive languages of commonwealth, corruption and tyranny found in both the Muscovy Company accounts and in Fletcher's writings on Russia, this monograph explores how Russia was a useful tool for Elizabethans to think with when they contemplated the nature of government and the changing face of monarchy in the late Elizabethan regime. It will appeal to academics and students of Elizabethan political culture and literary studies, as well as those of early modern travel and trade.

Elizabethan Rebellions: Conspiracy, Intrigue and Treason by Helene Harrison
2023 | ISBN: 1399081993 | English | 256 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
Elizabeth I. Tudor, Queen, Protestant.

Making Magic in Elizabethan England: Two Early Modern Vernacular Books of Magic (Magic in History) by Frank Klaassen
English | December 11th, 2019 | ISBN: 0271083697 | 160 pages | True EPUB | 10.52 MB
This volume presents editions of two fascinating anonymous and untitled manuscripts of magic produced in Elizabethan England: the Antiphoner Notebook and the Boxgrove Manual. Frank Klaassen uses these texts, which he argues are representative of the overwhelming majority of magical practitioners, to explain how magic changed during this period and why these developments were crucial to the formation of modern magic.

Essex: The cultural impact of an Elizabethan courtier By Annaliese Connolly (editor), Lisa Hopkins (editor)
2013 | 336 Pages | ISBN: 0719084946 | PDF | 11 MB
This collection of new essays about the earl of Essex, one of the most important figures of the Elizabethan court, resituates his life and career within the richly diverse contours of his cultural and political milieu. It identifies the ways in which his biography has been variously interpreted both during his own lifetime and since his death in 1601. Collectively, the essays examine a wealth of diverse visual and textual manifestations of Essex: poems, portraits, films; texts produced by Essex himself, including private letters, prose tracts, poems and entertainments; and the transmission and circulation of these as a means of disseminating his political views. As well as prising open long-held assumptions about the earl's life, the authors provide a diachronic approach to the earl's career, identifying crucial events such as the Irish campaign and the uprising, and re-evaluating their significance and critical reception. Collectively, the essays illuminate the reach and significance of the many roles played by the earl and the impact of his brief, dazzling life on his contemporaries and on those who came after, making this the first volume to offer a comprehensive critical overview of the Earl's life and influence.

The Elizabethan Mind Searching for the Self in an Age of Uncertainty by Helen Hackett PDF | 36.02 MB
English | 431 Pages

Title: The Elizabethan Mind
Author: Hackett, Helen;
Year: 2022

Elizabethan Fictions: Espionage, Counter-espionage and the Duplicity of Fiction in Early Elizabethan Prose Narratives By R. W. Maslen
1997 | 328 Pages | ISBN: 0198119917 | PDF | 3 MB
Elizabethan Fictions is a study of the works of John Lyly, George Gascoigne, Geoffrey Fenton, William Baldwin, and a number of other English writers in the context of changing attitudes to fiction in Elizabethan England. Both the censors and the writers of the time were aware that the developments in Elizabethan prose threatened to transform the nature of fiction itself, and it was felt that these destructive capabilities might constitute a material threat to the security of the Elizabethan state. Maslen explores their violations of current conventions, their mockery of contemporary platitudes, their self-conscious stylishness, and their subtlety, and makes the case for these fictions to be seen as the precursors of Shakespeare's comedies, Sidney's prose epics, and the satires of Marlowe and Nashe.

Hakluyt's Promise: An Elizabethan's Obsession for an English America by Peter C. Mancall
English | January 10, 2007 | ISBN: 0300110545, 030016422X | True EPUB | 378 pages | 6.5 MB
The most comprehensive portrait yet of Richard Hakluyt, indefatigable promoter of English colonization in America