Table of Contents:
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • A Note on Quotations from Early Modern Texts
  • Introduction: Foundations and Trajectories
  • Part 1. Dynasty and Difference
  • 1. Contested Legitimacies
  • 2. Filial Emulation
  • 3. The Tudor Sisterhood
  • 4. The Protestant Succession
  • Part 2. Idolatries
  • 5. Imagery, Policy, and Belief
  • 6. Iconomachy
  • 7. Instrumental Adoration
  • 8. A Cult of Elizabeth?
  • Part 3. Queen and Country
  • 9. The Geopolitical Imaginary
  • 10. Policy in Pictures
  • 11. Purity and Danger
  • Part 4. Resistances
  • 12. Vox Populi
  • 13. Defacing the Queen
  • 14. Secrets of the Heart
  • Part 5. Time's Subject
  • 15. A Queen of Shadows
  • 16. Mysteries of State
  • 17. Through the Looking Glass
  • Epilogue: The Jacobean Phoenix
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index