Shell, Alison;
(2025)
The Professor, The Queen and the Nag’s Head: Thomas Neal Reimagines the Elizabethan Settlement.
In: Havens, Earle and Rankin, Mark, (eds.)
The Elizabethan Catholic Underground: Clandestine Printing and Scribal Subversion in the English Counter-Reformation.
(pp. 264-286).
Brill: Leiden, The Netherlands.
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Abstract
In 1566, the Oxford professor Thomas Neal participated in the ceremonies welcoming Elizabeth I to Oxford. Several years later, at a time when his Catholic beliefs had put him at odds with the Elizabethan establishment, he reflected imaginatively on his encounter with the Queen, envisaging ways that her religious position might be altered by her attendance at academic disputations. The resultant fantasy, preserved in a newly identified volume of Neal’s writings, also contains the earliest mention of a story disseminated by Neal that Matthew Parker, Elizabeth’s first Archbishop of Canterbury, was irregularly installed: the so-called ‘Nag’s Head’ consecration.
| Type: | Book chapter |
|---|---|
| Title: | The Professor, The Queen and the Nag’s Head: Thomas Neal Reimagines the Elizabethan Settlement |
| ISBN-13: | 978-90-04-42640-5 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1163/9789004426412_010 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004426412_010 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Dept of English Lang and Literature |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10209978 |
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