Queen Elizabeth I, was she the “Virgin Queen” because she did not marry or because she was truly a virgin?

Erica HarmanErica Harman Thesis: Queen Elizabeth I, was she the “Virgin Queen” because she did not marry or because she was truly a virgin?Bibliography: Abbott, Jacob. History of Queen Elizabeth. New York: Harper & Bothers, 1899.Bloom, Philip M. “The Virgin Queen.” The British Medical Journal3, no. 5773 (1971): 535. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25415693.Hibbert, Christopher. The Virgin queen: Elizabeth I, genius of the Golden Age. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., 1992.Highley, Christopher. “Corpus Reginae.” Huntington Library Quarterly 74, no. 2 (2011): 359-61. doi:10.1525/hlq.2011.74.2.359.Jenkins, Elizabeth. Elizabeth and Leicester. London: Phoenix, 2002.King, John N. “Queen Elizabeth I: Representations of the Virgin Queen.” Renaissance Quarterly 43, no. 1 (1990): 30-74. doi:10.2307/2861792.Levin, Carole. “The heart and stomach of a king” Elizabeth I and the politics of sex and power. Philadelphia, PA: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 2013.Paul E. J. Hammer. “Sex and the Virgin Queen: Aristocratic Concupiscence and the Court of Elizabeth I.” The Sixteenth Century Journal 31, no. 1 (2000): 77-97. doi:10.2307/2671290.Rhodes, Philip, and M. J. Pleydell. “The Virgin Queen.” The British Medical Journal 3, no. 5777 (1971): 768-69. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25415997. Levin, Carole. “The heart and stomach of a king” Elizabeth I and the politics of sex and power. Philadelphia, PA: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 2013.

 

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