Histories

I. ELIZABETHAN PLOTS AND REBELLIONS

Mary's Execution
  • Henry VIII’s Tangled Succession
  • Edward and Protestantism
  • “Bloody Mary”
  • Queen Elizabeth
  • Mary, Queen of Scots, and the Catholic Opposition
  • The Northern Rising (1569)
  • Excommunication (1570)
  • The Ridolphi Plot (1571)
  • The Throckmorton Plot (1583)
  • The Babington Plot (1586)
  • The Lopez Plot (1594)
  • The Last Years: Riot and Disorder
  • Opposition within the Court: the Essex Rebellion
  • “From the Stage to the State”
  • Henry IV and the Northern Rising
  • Richard II and the Earl of Essex

II. OBEDIENCE AND RESISTANCE

Luther
  • ST. PAUL ON OBEDIENCE TO SECULAR AUTHORITY
    • Romans 13
  • THE EMERGENCE OF RESISTANCE TO THE STATE
    • John Ponet, A Short Treatise of Politic Power (1556)
  • THE PROTESTANT THEORY OF RESISTANCE
    • Phillippe Duplessi-Mornay, Vindiciae contra tyrannos (1579)
  • THE IDEOLOGY OF OBEDIENCE
    • “An Homily against Disobedience and Willful Rebellion” (1570)
  • THE ABSOLUTIST STATE
    • Jean Bodin, The Six Books of a Commonweal (1576)
  • THE DIVINE RIGHT OF KING JAMES
    • King James VI, The Trew Law of Free Monarchies (1598)

III. RIOTS AND LIBERTIES

Brothel
  • MASTERLESS MEN
  • THE LIBERTIES
    • Robert Greene, A Notable Discovery of Cozenage (1591)
  • ALEHOUSE AND WHOREHOUSE
    • Thomas Nashe, Christ’s Tears over Jerusalem (1592)
  • THE THEATERS IN THE LIBERTIES
    • Stephen Gosson, The School of Abuse (1579)
  • RIOT AND THE LIBERTIES IN HENRY IV