I will start my essay with a little introduction regarding queen's elizabeth database, including her birthdate, personality, and the beginning and end of her crownship. I will also mention in this introduction the poor social/economical/political situation of the british islands at that time.
In the development of my essay, i will discuss her battle against Spain, the peak of the english renassaince, and talk about the Elizabeth's strong and courageous leadership that allowed her to sail to the discovery of america and eventually led england into a new age of prosperity.
domingo, 15 de março de 2009
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The Queen Coronation
Queen Elizabeth
Elizabeth became queen at the age of 25. As her triumphal progress wound through the city on the eve of the coronation ceremony, she was welcomed wholeheartedly by the citizens and greeted by orations and pageants, most with a strong Protestant flavour. Elizabeth's open and gracious responses endeared her to the spectators, who were "wonderfully ravished".The following day, 15 January 1559, Elizabeth was crowned at westminster Abbey and anointed by the Catholic bishop of Carlisle. She was then presented for the people's acceptance, amidst a deafening noise of organs, fifes, trumpets, drums, and bells.
On 20 November 1558, Elizabeth declared her intentions to her Council and other peers who had come to Hatfield to swear allegiance. The speech contains the first record of her often-used metaphor of the "two bodies": the body natural and the body politic:
My lords, the law of nature moves me to sorrow for my sister; the burden that is fallen upon me makes me amazed, and yet, considering I am God's creature, ordained to obey His appointment, I will thereto yield, desiring from the bottom of my heart that I may have assistance of His grace to be the minister of His heavenly will in this office now committed to me. And as I am but one body naturally considered, though by His permission a body politic to govern, so shall I desire you all...to be assistant to me, that I with my ruling and you with your service may make a good account to Almighty God and leave some comfort to our posterity on earth. I mean to direct all my actions by good advice and counsel.
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In the next weeks, it will be exposed in this blog several information about Queen Elizabeth 1, and that information will be exposed in textes, some essays that i will write and some data that i will collect from internet.
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