The Portable Queen
Subtitle: Elizabeth I and the Politics of Ceremony (Massachusetts Studies in Early Modern Culture)
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Published: May 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781558492141
Subjects: British & Irish history: c 1000 to c 1500; British & Irish history: c 1500 to c 1700; Visits of state; c 1500 to c 1600; Great Britain - History - Tudor And Stuart (1485-1714); Political History; Relations with courts and cour; History; History - General History; I,; History: World; United Kingdom, Great Britain; Europe - Great Britain - General; Elizabeth; Queen of England,; Rites and ceremonies; Royal visitors; 1533-1603; 16th century; England; Great Britain
First sentence: Every spring and summer of her 44 years as queen, Elizabeth I insisted that her court go with her on "progress," a series of royal visits to towns and aristocratic homes in southern England.