'… McLaren is to be congratulated for her important achievement. by thoroughly excavating the gendered nature of political discourse in Elizabethan England; she has made a significant contribution to the reevaluation of the political culture and thought of the period.' Markku Peltonen, University of Helsinki

• Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. 'To be Deborah': The political implications of providentialism under a female ruler; 2. Announcing the godly common weal: Knox, Aylmer and the parameters of counsel; 3. Feats of incorporation: the ideological bases of the mixed monarchy; 4. Contesting the social order: 'resistance theory' and the mixed monarchy; 5. Godly men and nobles: the bicephalic body politic; 6. Godly men and parliamentarians: the politics of counsel in the 1570s; 7. Rewriting the common weal: Sir Thomas Smith and the De Republica Angelorum; Afterword; Bibliography; Index.

'… McLaren is to be congratulated for her important achievement. by thoroughly excavating the gendered nature of political discourse in Elizabethan England; she has made a significant contribution to the reevaluation of the political culture and thought of the period.' Markku Peltonen, University of Helsinki

• Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. 'To be Deborah': The political implications of providentialism under a female ruler; 2. Announcing the godly common weal: Knox, Aylmer and the parameters of counsel; 3. Feats of incorporation: the ideological bases of the mixed monarchy; 4. Contesting the social order: 'resistance theory' and the mixed monarchy; 5. Godly men and nobles: the bicephalic body politic; 6. Godly men and parliamentarians: the politics of counsel in the 1570s; 7. Rewriting the common weal: Sir Thomas Smith and the De Republica Angelorum; Afterword; Bibliography; Index.

'… McLaren is to be congratulated for her important achievement. by thoroughly excavating the gendered nature of political discourse in Elizabethan England; she has made a significant contribution to the reevaluation of the political culture and thought of the period.' Markku Peltonen, University of Helsinki

• Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. 'To be Deborah': The political implications of providentialism under a female ruler; 2. Announcing the godly common weal: Knox, Aylmer and the parameters of counsel; 3. Feats of incorporation: the ideological bases of the mixed monarchy; 4. Contesting the social order: 'resistance theory' and the mixed monarchy; 5. Godly men and nobles: the bicephalic body politic; 6. Godly men and parliamentarians: the politics of counsel in the 1570s; 7. Rewriting the common weal: Sir Thomas Smith and the De Republica Angelorum; Afterword; Bibliography; Index.