CONTEXTS: THE HISTORIES

       
I. ELIZABETHAN PLOTS AND REBELLIONS

    
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  • Henry VIII's Tangled Succession

  • Edward and Protestantism

  • "Bloody Mary"

  • Queen Elizabeth

  • Mary, Queen of Scots, and the Catholic Opposition

  • The Northern Rising (1569)

  • Excommunication (1570)

  • The Ridolphi Plot (1571)

  • The Throckmorton Plot (1583)

  • The Babington Plot (1586)

  • The Lopez Plot (1594)

  • The Last Years: Riot and Disorder

  • Opposition within the Court: the Essex Rebellion

  • "From the Stage to the State"

  • Henry IV and the Northern Rising

  • Richard II and the Earl of Essex

   
II. OBEDIENCE AND RESISTANCE

    
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  • ST. PAUL ON OBEDIENCE TO SECULAR AUTHORITY
  • Romans 13
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  • THE EMERGENCE OF RESISTANCE TO THE STATE
  • John Ponet, A Short Treatise of Politic Power (1556)
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  • THE PROTESTANT THEORY OF RESISTANCE
  • Phillippe Duplessi-Mornay, Vindiciae contra tyrannos (1579)
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  • THE IDEOLOGY OF OBEDIENCE
  • "An Homily against Disobedience and Willful Rebellion" (1570)
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  • THE ABSOLUTIST STATE
  • Jean Bodin, The Six Books of a Commonweal (1576)
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  • THE DIVINE RIGHT OF KING JAMES
  • King James VI, The Trew Law of Free Monarchies (1598)
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III. RIOT AND LIBERTIES

    
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  • MASTERLESS MEN

  • THE LIBERTIES
  • Robert Greene, A Notable Discovery of Cozenage (1591)
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  • ALEHOUSE AND WHOREHOUSE
  • Thomas Nashe, Christ's Tears over Jerusalem (1592)
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  • THE THEATERS IN THE LIBERTIES
  • Stephen Gosson, The School of Abuse (1579)
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  • RIOT AND THE LIBERTIES IN HENRY IV