Governing by Virtue: Lord Burghley and the Management of Elizabethan England by Norman Jones

Governing by Virtue: Lord Burghley and the Management of Elizabethan England

Norman Jones

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Managing early modern England was difficult because the state was weak. Although Queen Elizabeth was the supreme ruler, she had little bureaucracy, no standing army, and no police force. This meant that her chief manager, Lord Burghley, had to wor...

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