{"product_id":"the-portable-queen-elizabeth-i-and-the-politics-of-ceremony-massachusetts-studies-in-early-modern-culture","title":"The Portable Queen: Elizabeth I and the Politics of Ceremony (Massachusetts Studies in Early Modern Culture)","description":"\u003cp\u003eEvery spring and summer of her forty-four years as queen  Elizabeth I (1533-1603) insisted that her court go \"on progress  \" a series of royal visits to towns and aristocratic homes in southern England. These trips provided the only direct contact most people had with a monarch who made popularity a cornerstone of her reign. Public appearances gave the queen a stage on which to interact with her subjects in a calculated effort to keep their support. The progresses were both emblematic of Elizabeths rule and intrinsic to her ability to govern.In this book  Mary Hill Cole provides a detailed analysis of the progresses. Drawing on royal household accounts  ministerial correspondence  county archives  corporation records  and family papers  she examines the effects of the visits on the queens household and government  the individual and civic hosts  and the monarchy of the Virgin Queen.  Cole places the progresses in the sixteenth-century world of politics and images  where the queen and her hosts exchanged ceremonial messages that advanced their own agendas. The heart of the progresses was the blend of politics  socializing  and ceremony that enabled the queen to accomplish royal business on the move while satisfying the needs of those courtiers  townspeople  and country residents who welcomed her into their communities.  While all Renaissance monarchs engaged in occasional travel  in Elizabeths case the progresses provided the settings in which she crafted her royal authority. Although the trips inconvenienced the government and strained her treasury  Elizabeth found power in the turmoil of an itinerant court and in a continuing ceremonial dialogue with her subjects.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44949843804213,"sku":"ByrdShop_1558492143","price":125.43,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781558492141_1ca3e867-cf74-4cac-ae12-78bf362dd228.jpg?v=1772663557","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-portable-queen-elizabeth-i-and-the-politics-of-ceremony-massachusetts-studies-in-early-modern-culture","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}