Her Majesty's Spymaster

Author: Stephen Budiansky
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780452287471
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268

Book Description
Sir Francis Walsingham’s official title was principal secretary to Queen Elizabeth I, but in fact this pious, tight-lipped Puritan was England’s first spymaster. A ruthless, fiercely loyal civil servant, Walsingham worked brilliantly behind the scenes to foil Elizabeth’s rival Mary Queen of Scots and outwit Catholic Spain and France, which had arrayed their forces behind her. Though he cut an incongruous figure in Elizabeth’s worldly court, Walsingham managed to win the trust of key players like William Cecil and the Earl of Leicester before launching his own secret campaign against the queen’s enemies. Covert operations were Walsingham’s genius; he pioneered techniques for exploiting double agents, spreading disinformation, and deciphering codes with the latest code-breaking science that remain staples of international espionage.

Walsingham

Author: Michael Rear
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780854398119
Category : Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages
Languages : en
Pages : 350

Book Description
This is no dry and dusty research project. It is vibrant with humanity, joy, sorrow and the author's overwhelming sense of Our Lady of Walsingham's significance in the Church's mission today. Published to celebrate the 950th anniversary of the foundaion of the Shrine of Our Lady in Walsingham.

Walsingham

Author: Alan Haynes
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0752496220
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 387

Book Description
Walsingham, Elizabeth's spymaster had established an extensive spy network the world had ever seen, placing secret agents throughout Europe, especially in the Catholic courts of Spain, Italy, and France, to ferret out Catholic plots against Elizabeth. Yet Elizabeth ignored her spymaster. Walsingham, distrusted for being too powerful.

Elizabeth's Spymaster

Author: Robert Hutchinson
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312368224
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 413

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Customary of Our Lady of Walsingham

Author: Andrew Burnham
Publisher: Canterbury Press
ISBN: 184825122X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 952

Book Description
This is a daily prayer book for the Ordinariate those former Anglicans who have recently become a distinct part of the Roman Catholic Church. In creating the Ordinariate, Pope Benedict recognised the treasures that Anglicans brought with them from their own tradition and this book is replete with the riches of Anglican patrimony. It contains material from the Anglican tradition, adapted according to the Roman rite including: an order for morning, evening and night prayer throughout the year spiritual readings for the Christian year the minor offices calendar and lectionary tables For use throughout the English speaking world, this unique volume will fill an immediate need.

Walsingham in Literature and Culture from the Middle Ages to Modernity

Author: Dominic Janes
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 9780754669241
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 272

Book Description
Though well known as a shrine to the Virgin Mary and as a popular pilgrimage site, Walsingham has only recently received serious scholarly attention. This volume represents the first collection of multi-disciplinary essays on Walsingham's broader significance. Contributors focus on the hitherto neglected issue of Walsingham's cultural impact: the literary, historical, art historical and sociological significance that Walsingham has had since the later Middle Ages.

A Walsingham Rosary

Author: Philip Gray
Publisher: Canterbury Press
ISBN: 1848256302
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 120

Book Description
A Walsingham Rosary is a book of Bible readings, meditations and prayers based on each of the mysteries of the Rosary 20 in all - with each being set specifically at a different place in the vicinity of the Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham. It comes complete with an illustrated guide to praying the Rosary and all the Bible readings and prayers are printed out in full. Line drawings, photographs, maps, directions, and a short description of each site will guide pilgrims round all the places of significance in and around Walsingham. It includes visits to the Anglican, Roman Catholic and Orthodox shrines and the Methodist chapel and so is wholly ecumenical. However, this is first and foremost a book of rosary prayers that can be said anywhere. First published locally in 2000, the Luminous Mysteries have since been added to the Rosary, so the text is expanded and includes visits to further five sites and updated photographs.

The Chronica Maiora of Thomas Walsingham, 1376-1422

Author: Thomas Walsingham
Publisher: Boydell Press
ISBN: 9781843831440
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 484

Book Description
Translated by David Preest with introduction and notes by James G. Clark Thomas Walsingham's Chronica maiora is one of the most comprehensive and colourful chronicles to survive from medieval England. Walsingham was a monk at St Albans Abbey, a royal monastery and the premier repository of public records, and therefore well placed to observe the political machinations of this period at close hand. Moreover, he knew the monarchs and many of the nobles personally and is able to offer insights into their actions unmatched by any other authority. It is this narrative, transmitted through the popular Tudor histories of Hall, Stow and Holinshed, which provides the principle source for Shakespeare's sequence of history plays. Covering almost fifty years, the narrative provides the most authoritative account of one of the most turbulent periods in English history, from the last years of Edward III (1376-77) to the premature death of Henry V (1422). Walsingham describes the many dramas of this period in vivid detail, including the Peasants' Revolt (1381), the deposition and murder of Richard II (1399-1400), The Welsh revolt of Owain Glyn Dwr (1403) and Henry V's victory at Agincourt (1415); they are brought to life here in this new translation.

The Classicist Writings of Thomas Walsingham

Author: Sylvia Federico
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1903153638
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 218

Book Description
A comparative reading of the "literary" works of Thomas Walsingham, highlighting his reaction to contemporary historical events.

Sir Francis Walsingham

Author: Derek Wilson
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1472112482
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 239

Book Description
During the brief reign of the Queen Mary, Walsingham was a Protestant exile in Italy. Returning home when Elizabeth assumed the throne, from 1570 he became a diplomat to the arch-pragmatist Queen. He was often troubled by her inconsistent policy decisions and for allowing the exile in England of Mary Queen of Scots. His triumph came in 1587 when Mary was at last beheaded after the cunning defeat of the Babington plot. A powerful, if enigmatic figure, loathed by his adversaries and deeply admired by friends and allies, Walsingham became the master co-ordinator of a feared pan-European spy network. His spies underpinned his organisation of national resistance to the Spanish Armada, but devotion and duty to Elizabeth was costly and Walsingham died two years later in penury. Historian and storyteller Derek Wilson delves deeply into the life of a fascinating and highly influential figure, bringing us tales of deceit, betrayal and loyalty along the way; popular history of the highest calibre. see www.derekwilson.com