| Title: |
The Professor, The Queen and the Nag’s Head: Thomas Neal Reimagines the Elizabethan Settlement |
| Authors: |
Shell, Alison |
| Contributors: |
Havens, Earle; Rankin, Mark |
| Source: |
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. (2025) |
| Publisher Information: |
Brill |
| Publication Year: |
2025 |
| Collection: |
University College London: UCL Discovery |
| Description: |
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. |
| Document Type: |
book part |
| File Description: |
text |
| Language: |
English |
| Relation: |
https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10209978/1/Shell_Neal%20Elizabethan%20Underground%20accepted%20MS.pdf; https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10209978/ |
| Availability: |
https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10209978/1/Shell_Neal%20Elizabethan%20Underground%20accepted%20MS.pdf; https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10209978/ |
| Rights: |
open |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.20567C50 |
| Database: |
BASE |