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  2. Book of Common Prayer (1559) - Wikipedia

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    The 1559 Book of Common Prayer, [note 1] also called the Elizabethan prayer book, is the third edition of the Book of Common Prayer and the text that served as an official liturgical book of the Church of England throughout the Elizabethan era. Elizabeth I became Queen of England in 1558 following the death of her Catholic half-sister Mary I.

  3. Elizabethan literature - Wikipedia

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    Elizabethan literature refers to bodies of work produced during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1558–1603), and is one of the most splendid ages of English literature.In addition to drama and the theatre, it saw a flowering of poetry, with new forms like the sonnet, the Spenserian stanza, and dramatic blank verse, as well as prose, including historical chronicles, pamphlets, and the first ...

  4. Act of Uniformity 1558 - Wikipedia

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    In so doing, it mandated worship according to the attached 1559 Book of Common Prayer. The Act was part of the Elizabethan Religious Settlement in England instituted by Elizabeth I, who wanted to unify the church. Other Acts concerned with this settlement were the Act of Supremacy 1558 and the Thirty-Nine Articles.

  5. Elizabethan era - Wikipedia

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    The diet in England during the Elizabethan era depended largely on social class. Bread was a staple of the Elizabethan diet, and people of different statuses ate bread of different qualities. The upper classes ate fine white bread called manchet , while the poor ate coarse bread made of barley or rye .

  6. Jerry Brotton - Wikipedia

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    This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World (London: Allen Lane, 2016. ISBN 978-0241004029) The Sultan and the Queen: The Untold Story of Elizabeth and Islam (London: Viking, 2018. ISBN 978-0525428824) Trading Territories: Mapping the Early Modern World (London: Reaktion Books, 2018. ISBN 978-1780239293)

  7. Leicester's Commonwealth - Wikipedia

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    A printed copy of the original edition of Leicester's Commonwealth. Leicester's Commonwealth (originally titled The Copie of a Leter wryten by a Master of Arts of Cambrige) (1584) is a scurrilous book that circulated in Elizabethan England and attacked Queen Elizabeth I's favourite, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester.

  8. Susan Doran - Wikipedia

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    She has published and edited sixteen books, notably Elizabeth I and Religion, 1558-1603, Monarchy and Matrimony and Queen Elizabeth I, the last part of the British Library's Historic Lives series. Doran is Professor of Early Modern British History at the University of Oxford and Senior Research Fellow at Jesus College .

  9. Thieves' cant - Wikipedia

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    Cant is a common feature of rogue literature of the Elizabethan era in England, in both pamphlets and theatre.It was claimed by Samuel Rid to have been devised around 1530 by two vagabond leaders – Giles Hather, of the "Egyptians", and Cock Lorell, of the "Quartern of Knaves" – at The Devil's Arse, a cave in Derbyshire, "to the end that their cozenings, knaveries and villainies might not ...