Elizabeth I's Foreign Correspondence: Letters, Rhetoric, and Politics
- Submitting institution
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The Open University
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 1457636
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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10.1057/9781137448415
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- ISBN
- 978-1-137-44840-8
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- January
- Year of publication
- 2014
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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2
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- Yes
- Additional information
- The three editors planned the collection together and divided up the editorial work equally, at an early stage deciding that it would combine their own editions and translations of selected letters with complementary chapters by other contributors. Considerable editorial feedback was given to all authors; Gibson’s particularly detailed comments on Andreani’s chapter are acknowledged in a footnote. Gibson was responsible for most of the research on the six letters in French, contributing one essay of his own and c.75% of the edition chapter co-authored with Coatalen. For this chapter, Coatalen produced lightly annotated texts and initial translations. After extensive research on Elizabeth’s manuscripts at Hatfield House and work on manuscript and printed sources in the British Library, The National Archives and elsewhere, Gibson then provided fresh transcriptions, additional notes, detailed revision of the translations and, in a set of linking passages, a newly-researched narrative account of the marriage negotiations between Anjou and Elizabeth. Original archival research on the complete Elizabeth-Anjou correspondence was also the basis for Gibson’s single-authored chapter on the physical features of the letters and the protocols of early modern letter-writing. The first three paragraphs (just over one page) of the Introduction are by Bajetta and Coatalen; the rest (just under three pages) is by Gibson. The collection highlights an important but neglected part of the corpus of Elizabeth I’s writing that was of central importance to the politics and diplomacy of the period; it was praised by Natalie Mears in the English Historical Review as ‘a superb collection, and one of the best collections on Elizabeth (possibly on early modern history generally) produced over the past few years . .. partly because of the consistently high quality of the essays themselves, but . . . also [because of] the overall concept and approach’.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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