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    Elizabethan Secretariat and the Signet Office

Elizabethan Secretariat and the Signet Office

Angela Andreani
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      This book investigates the work of the Elizabethan secretariat during the fascinating decade of the 1590s, when, after the death of Francis Walsingham, the place of principal secretary remained vacant for six years. Through original sources in the collections of the State Papers and Cecil Papers, this study reconstructs the activities of the clerks and secretaries who worked in close contact with the Queen at court. An estimated fifty people, many unidentified, saw to every minute detail of the production of official documents and letters in an array of offices, rooms and locations within and outside the court. The book introduces the staff of the Elizabethan writing offices as a community of shared knowledge with a privileged and constant access to papers of state, working behind the scenes of court display and high politics. While the production of the state papers is explored as a means to re-construct the functioning of the inner mechanisms of state, it also provides a lens through which to access the knowledge of the administration in a pre-bureaucratic age.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Angela Andreani EAN: 9780367885472 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 308 g HEIGHT: 229 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Taylor & Francis Ltd DATE PUBLISHED: 2019-12-10 CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / General, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, HISTORY / Modern / 16th Century WIDTH: 152 cm SPINE:

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      United Kingdom, Great Britain, England, c 1500 onwards to present day, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1400 to c 1600, History and Archaeology, History, General and world history, European history, Social and cultural history

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      Angela Andreani is Folger Shakespeare Library short-term fellow, and has also been Marie Skłodowska Curie Intra-European research fellow at the University of Sussex.
      This book investigates the work of the Elizabethan secretariat during the fascinating decade of the 1590s, when, after the death of Francis Walsingham, the place of principal secretary remained vacant for six years. Through original sources in the collections of the State Papers and Cecil Papers, this study reconstructs the activities of the clerks and secretaries who worked in close contact with the Queen at court. An estimated fifty people, many unidentified, saw to every minute detail of the production of official documents and letters in an array of offices, rooms and locations within and outside the court. The book introduces the staff of the Elizabethan writing offices as a community of shared knowledge with a privileged and constant access to papers of state, working behind the scenes of court display and high politics. While the production of the state papers is explored as a means to re-construct the functioning of the inner mechanisms of state, it also provides a lens through which to access the knowledge of the administration in a pre-bureaucratic age.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Angela Andreani EAN: 9780367885472 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 308 g HEIGHT: 229 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Taylor & Francis Ltd DATE PUBLISHED: 2019-12-10 CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / General, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, HISTORY / Modern / 16th Century WIDTH: 152 cm SPINE:

      Book Themes:

      United Kingdom, Great Britain, England, c 1500 onwards to present day, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1400 to c 1600, History and Archaeology, History, General and world history, European history, Social and cultural history

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      Angela Andreani is Folger Shakespeare Library short-term fellow, and has also been Marie Skłodowska Curie Intra-European research fellow at the University of Sussex.

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