Book Launch - Carole Levin - The Reign and Life of Queen Elizabeth I

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• Wednesday, Dec 17, 2025  5:30pm - 6:30pm

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Join us as we celebrate the release of Carole Levin’s latest book The Reigh and Life of Queen Elizabeth I: Politics, Culture, and Society!

About the Book:
“This lively and comprehensive book provides a wealth of information about the queenship of Elizabeth I, but it is also accessible, engaging, entertaining, and often surprising. Researched with a detective’s painstaking attention to archival detail that characterizes all of Levin’s work, The Reign and Life of Queen Elizabeth I demonstrates that there are still new revelations to be uncovered about this fascinating monarch. Information about Elizabeth and the wide net she cast that has been neglected or overlooked is highlighted here, alongside attention to events and issues that were relevant in the sixteenth century and still resonate today. Students and scholars at every level and early modern enthusiasts in general will find this book an invaluable resource for opening up fresh doorways to Elizabeth and her world.” –Jo Carney, The College of New Jersey, USA

A result of Levin’s nonpareil archival research and decades of her seminal scholarship on Queen Elizabeth I, this book situates meticulously researched facts about Elizabeth’s queenship within broader political, religious, social, and cultural issues, developments, and events. The Reign and Life of Queen Elizabeth I is both an encyclopedia and textbook, and it will serve as an invaluable asset for teachers, students, and scholars alike. This book is a treasury of new information that clarifies and illuminates the historical record and brings Elizabeth’s world to life like never before.” –Anna Riehl Bertolet, Auburn University, USA

“An elegant journey through Elizabeth I’s reign, queenship, and life, this volume is divided into sections that explore privy councilors, ranking statesmen and churchmen, and personal friends. Fresh substance and original insights encountered here prove there is still more to learn about this Tudor queen. Its format makes it useful in the classroom with a variety of independent essays. A crowning achievement of scholarship and archival sleuthing.” –Renee Bricker, University of North Georgia, USA

About the Author:
Carole Levin is Willa Cather Professor of History and Director of the Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program at the University of Nebraska where she specializes in early modern English women’s and cultural history. She received her Ph.D. from Tufts University. Her books include, Shakespeare’s Foreign Worlds: National and Transnational Identities in the Elizabethan Age, co-authored with John Watkins (Cornell University Press, 2009); Dreaming the English Renaissance: Politics and Desire in Court and Culture (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008); The Reign of Elizabeth I (Palgrave Macmillan, 2002); and The Heart and Stomach of a King: Elizabeth I and the Politics of Sex and Power (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994), which was named one of the top ten academic books of the 1990s by the readers of Lingua Franca, September, 2000. She has worked on two major exhibits, “Elizabeth I: Ruler and Legend” at the Newberry Library in Chicago and “To Sleep Perchance to Dream” at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington DC. She has been the recipient of two National Endowment for the Humanities long-term fellowships. She is the past president of the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women, the co-founder and president of the Queen Elizabeth I Society, and is Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.