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Delno C. West Award Winner: Using And Abusing Delegated Power In Elizabethan England, James H. Forse Jan 2003

Delno C. West Award Winner: Using And Abusing Delegated Power In Elizabethan England, James H. Forse

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Queen Elizabeth's government, like most early modern European governments, was one that sought to extend its influence and power throughout the realm. But at the same time it possessed minimal financial resources and coercive machinery of power, and therefore, while it issued mandates, it had to depend upon local officials and individuals to whom it delegated power. Nor did Elizabeth’s government have any machinery of oversight to “watch-dog” those delegated powers. Only when issues came to the attention of the Privy Council after-the-fact did the government, occasionally, intervene to redress abuses of those delegated powers. Two areas in which these …


Remembering The Past Eaves And Kimpel's Richarson And The Uses Of Literary Biography, William H. Epstein Jan 2003

Remembering The Past Eaves And Kimpel's Richarson And The Uses Of Literary Biography, William H. Epstein

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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"Definitive," "Exhaustive," And "Rather Old-Fashioned" Scholarly Biography On The Cusp Of Critical Change, Catherine N. Parke Jan 2003

"Definitive," "Exhaustive," And "Rather Old-Fashioned" Scholarly Biography On The Cusp Of Critical Change, Catherine N. Parke

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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James Ii's "Catholic" Court, Andrew Barclay Jan 2003

James Ii's "Catholic" Court, Andrew Barclay

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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William Penn And James Ii Suppart And Ambivalence, Paul A. Hopkins Jan 2003

William Penn And James Ii Suppart And Ambivalence, Paul A. Hopkins

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Book Reviews Jan 2003

Book Reviews

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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