Book contents
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgements
- List of Figures
- Note on the Text
- Introduction: Elizabethan England and the German Question
- 1 The Elizabethan Settlement and Anglo-German Policy in the First Years
- 2 Foedus et Fractio, I: The Fortunes and Challenges of Anglo-German Diplomacy, 1560–76
- 3 Foedus et Fractio, II: The Formula of Concord and the Protestant League, 1577–80
- 4 Foedus et Fractio, III: The Confessional Realignment of Anglo-German Relations, 1580–6
- 5 Foedus et Fractio, IV: The Crescendo of European Conflict and the Changing of the Guard, 1587–92
- Conclusion: England and the Protestant Princes of the Empire
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
Introduction: Elizabethan England and the German Question
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgements
- List of Figures
- Note on the Text
- Introduction: Elizabethan England and the German Question
- 1 The Elizabethan Settlement and Anglo-German Policy in the First Years
- 2 Foedus et Fractio, I: The Fortunes and Challenges of Anglo-German Diplomacy, 1560–76
- 3 Foedus et Fractio, II: The Formula of Concord and the Protestant League, 1577–80
- 4 Foedus et Fractio, III: The Confessional Realignment of Anglo-German Relations, 1580–6
- 5 Foedus et Fractio, IV: The Crescendo of European Conflict and the Changing of the Guard, 1587–92
- Conclusion: England and the Protestant Princes of the Empire
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
Summary
[A]t my very first entrance upon the task, an intricate difficulty did in a manner wholly discourage me. For I lighted upon great piles and heaps of papers and writings of all sorts, reasonably well digested indeed in respect of the times, but in regard of the variety of the arguments very much confused. In searching and turning over whereof whilst I laboured till I sweat again, covered all over with dust, to gather fit matter together … I procured all the helps I possibly could for writing it.
For the bringing of which into this homely and rough-hewen shape, which here thou seest, what restleße nights, what painefull dayes, what heat, what cold I haue indured; how many long & chargeable iourneys I haue traueiled; how many famous libraries I haue searched into; what varietie of ancient and modern writers I haue perused; what a number of old records, patents, priuileges, letters, &c. I haue redeemed from obscuritie and perishing; into how manifold acquaintance I haue entred; what expenses I haue not spared; and yet what faire opportunities of priuate gaine, preferment, and ease I haue neglected.
William Camden and Richard Hakluyt had gifts for overstatement. Addressing English history at the end of Elizabeth's reign, they confronted enormous stores public and private of government rolls, documents and materials of all sorts. In many ways they succeeded in assembling these papers into comprehensible narratives explaining how and why events occurred.
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- Anglo-German Relations and the Protestant CauseElizabethan Foreign Policy and Pan-Protestantism, pp. 1 - 14Publisher: Pickering & ChattoFirst published in: 2014