Leadership and Elizabethan Culture

Peter Iver Kaufman is Charles Matthews and Virginia Brinkley Modlin Professor of Leadership Studies at the University of Richmond, USA, and Professor Emeritus of History and Religious Studies at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA.

"A novel collection that deftly balances contemporary expectations of monarchy, key questions about Elizabeth's queenship, and wider issues about the skills and qualities of a good leader without ever falling into anachronism. These essays offer new assessments of the nature of Elizabeth's governance and will stimulate further the already lively debates on one of British history's most iconic figures and the nature of leadership. An ideal collection for the Elizabethan specialist, the student, the political scientist - and, perhaps, even the politician." - Natalie Mears, Professor of History, University of Durham, UK "This fascinating collection of essays assesses the role of leadership in Elizabethan England across a range of spheres, from church and state to the economy and the theatre. A series of inter- and cross-disciplinary interventions re-evaluate the relative significance of personal rulership and of popular participation in the process of governing the late Tudor polity in international, national, and regional contexts. Kaufman has brought together a hugely impressive team of scholars whose contributions cumulatively encourage a rethink about just how 'republican' the 'monarchical republic' of Elizabeth I could ever really have been." - Steve Hindle, W. M. Keck Foundation Director of Research, The Huntington Library, USA "The well-documented and fascinating essays in Leadership and Elizabethan Culture make a valuable contribution to the fields of leadership studies, early modern diplomacy, and images of monarchy, adding to our understanding of the ideas and mechanisms behind English government of this period ... As Susan Doran has observed, corporate strategists in recent years have used Elizabeth as a 'model for good leadership'. Entrepreneurs and moguls could learn much from the management tactics examined in these essays." - Journal of the Northern Renaissance

• 1. Queen Elizabeth I of England: Monarchical Leadership in Action Susan Doran 2. Of Poetry and Politics: The Managerial Culture of Sixteenth-Century England Norman L. Jones 3. Alla Prudentissima Et Virtuosissima Reina Elisabetta: An Englishman's Italian Dedication to the Queen Charlotte Boland 4.  Mary Queen of Scots and the Northern Rebellion of 1569 K.J. Kesselring 5. Queen Elizabeth's Leadership Abroad: The Netherlands in the 1570s Peter Iver Kaufman 6. Leadership in the 1590s Janet Dickinson 7. Imagination and Leadership in Elizabethan England Todd Butler 8. Henry Herbert, Second Earl of Pembroke and Noble Leadership in the Elizabethan Provinces Neil Younger 9. Swingebreeches and Scholers: Images of Pastoral Leadership in the Elizabethan Provinces Timothy Scott McGinnis 10. Commerce and Community: Emergent Forms of Economic Leadership in Elizabeth's England Ritchie D. Kendall 11. The Perils of Political Showmanship: Marlowe's Tamburlaine the Great Meg Pearson 12. Subject, Servant, and Sovereign: Servant Leadership in Elizabethan Government and Shakespeare's King John Kristin M.S. Bezio 13 'If Power Change Purpose': Defining Leadership in Measure for Measure Karen Bruhn