History, Department of
Department of History: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
First Advisor
Carolyn Twomey
Second Advisor
Angela Bolen
Date of this Version
2-21-2025
Document Type
Thesis
Citation
Undergraduate thesis, May 21, 2025
Department of History, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Abstract
This thesis looks at the silent messaging associated with Queen Elizabeth I's clothing during her early reign. The goal of this thesis is to look at outfits Elizabeth could have worn and see what sort of messages her contemporaries in Parliament might haven taken from them. I specifically looked at Elizabeth's Parliamentary meeting from 1562/63. I did so because this meeting was early in her reign, her legitimacy was being questioned on two fronts, and she had just gotten over smallpox. Elizabeth was not known yet for her extravagant outfits, but she would have needed to have had a powerful outfit in this meeting to assert her authority.
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