Elizabethan Government and Society
Eight lectures given by JOEL HURSTFIELD ,
Astor Professor of English History in the University of London, at the University of East Anglia
8: The System Crumbles
The Elizabethan system of government was essentially a personal one. in his final lecture, Professor Hurstfield shows how the weaknesses implicit in the system under Elizabeth became explicit under her successors and how it was therefore destroyed.
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