Front Cover
Half-title
Series information
Title page
Copyright information
Dedication
Table of contents
List of figures
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations and Textual Conventions
Dramatis Personae
Introduction
Gender and Female Kingship
Biblical Analogy: A Contextual History
Book Overview
Chapter 1. Elizabeth I's Use of the Old Testament
The Coronation Procession
Precationes Privatae
Christian Prayers and Meditations
The Wisdom of Solomon
"As Solomon, so I above all things have desired wisdom"

Chapter 2. 1558-1569: Legitimizing the Regime
Elizabeth and/as Deborah
Restoring "the light of God's holy worde" to England
The European Protestant Cause
When the Swedish Sheba visited the English Solomon
The 1566 Oxford "Visitation"
Elizabeth's First Decade
Chapter 3. 1570-1584: Popery, Plots, Progresses-and Excommunication
Queen Excommunicated: Responses and Aftermath
Refuting the Refuters
Loyalty and Legitimacy
Loyalty, Legitimacy, and the East Anglian Progress of 1578
Enter the Jesuits
Encouraging-or Cudgelling-Loyalty
Embedding the Catholic Threat

Chapter 4. 1585-1590: Biblical Typology and the Catholic Threat
1585: "wicked Traitors" meet God's "goodnes and providence"
1586: Official and Popular Responses
1587: Legitimizing Regicide
1588: The Deliverance that "passeth all others"
1589: The "continuall providence and preservation of God"
1590: Queen Assailed
Dealing with the Catholic Threat, Typologically
Chapter 5. 1591-1602: The Twilight Years and the Catholic Threat Redux
In the Shadow of the Armada
The Second and Third Armadas
The Final Years: How Do You Solve a Problem Like Ireland?

Triumphal Protestantism Meets "Our good Hezekia" and "our gracious Debora"
Conclusion: Biblical Analogy and Providential Rule
Select Bibliography
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
Index