1st Edition
Spain, Rumor, and Anti-Catholicism in Mid-Jacobean England The Palatine Match, Cleves, and the Armada Scares of 1612-1613 and 1614
By Calvin F. Senning
Copyright 2019
268 Pages
18 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
268 Pages
18 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
268 Pages
18 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Geoffrey Parker has remarked that the Spanish Armada, though a disastrous defeat, was a considerable psychological success. Deep into the seventeenth century the specter of a returning armada haunted England. Twice in the middle of James I’s reign alarms occurred. One grew out of the king’s plan, opposed by Spain, to marry his daughter Elizabeth to the Calvinist elector of the Palatinate. The... Read more
Introduction
1. Deterioration in Anglo-Spanish Relations, 1611-1612
2. Growing Alarm and Fear in England: The Armada Scare of 1612-1613
3. The Palatine Wedding and Its Aftermath
4. Cleves, Spinola, and the Armada Scare of September 1614
5. Xanten and Beyond
Conclusion and Afterword
Biography
Calvin F. Senning retired as Professor of History from the University of Maine at Augusta in 1997. He previously worked as a contract historian with the War Department Historical Fund.
