This edited volume brings together a collection of provocative essays examining a number of different facets of Elizabethan foreign affairs, encompassing England and The British Isles, Europe, and the dynamic civilization of Islam. As an entirely domestic queen who never physically left her realm, Elizabeth I cast an inordinately wide shadow in the world around her. The essays is this volume collectively reveal a queen and her kingdom much more connected and integrated into a much wider world than usually discussed in conventional studies of Elizabethan foreign affairs.

GEOGRAPHICAL SCOPE: The book looks at Elizabeth's diplomacy well beyond European borders, particularly in the Middle East and India. CUTTINGEDGE: The book investigates the historical interplay of domestic and foreign policy, currently a hot area of inquiry. INTERDISCIPLINARY: The collection includes contributions from both literary scholars and historians. NEW PERSPECTIVE ON ELIZABETHAN ENGLAND: The contributors explore how the English conceptualized themselves under Elizabeth, and how diplomatic factors affected debates over Elizabeth's legitimacy and domestic religious disputes.

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Charles Beem is an Associate Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Pembroke, USA, and the author of the Palgrave titles The Lioness Roared, The Royal Minorities of Early Modern England, and, most recently, The Name of a Queen: William Fleetwood's Itinerarium ad Windsor.

Inhalt
PART I: BRITAIN
Why Elizabeth Never Left England; C.Beem & *C.Levin

• Princess Cecilia's Visitation To England, 1565-66; *N.Martin

• The 'Song On Queen Elizabeth': Coins, Clocks And The Stuff Of Political Satire In Dublin, 1560; *B.Siegfried

• PART II: EUROPE
  Disgust, Lamentation, And Reconciliation: Queen Elizabeth's Mixed Reaction To The St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre; *N.Probasco

• The Tsar And The Queen: You Speak A Language That I Understand Not; *A.Riehl Bertolet

• Elizabeth Amongst The Pirates: Gender And The Politics Of Piracy In Thomas Heywood's Fair Maid Of The West, Part 1; *C.Jowitt

• PART IV: ISLAM
  Elizabeth Through Moroccan Eyes; *N.Matar

• Queen Elizabeth I And The Mashreq: Relations With Sovereigns Of The Islamic East; *B.Andrea

• Elizabeth And India; *N.Das