Queen Elizabeth 1st

1. Queen Elizabeth I
(1533–1603)
Wielding Her Power with Balance
and Effectiveness
Nathalia COSTA GRIMALDI GOEDE
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2. Introduction
• Early life
• Personnal skills
• Balance of power
• Leadership
• Majesty and mildness
• Tolerance
• Ruthlessness
• Women’s power
• A Golden Age
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3. Early life
1533: Born
(Henry VIII - Anne Boleyn)
1536: Mother’s death
Disinheritance
Educational opportunities
1553: Opposition
Imprisonment Tower of London
1558: Queen
3Childhood Queen Elizabeth 1st

4. Personal skills
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Personal power
People skills
Langages
Knowledge
Leadership skills

5. Balance of power
Balance of masculine and feminine power in
professional and personal relationships
Empathy
Compassion
Patience
Openness
Bold
Decisive
Ruthless
Visionary
5Masculine/feminine balance

6. Leadership
Leadership and management
Prudence Dexterity
Patiencesensitivitystrenght
Tolerance People skills
Education
Agreements
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7. Majesty and mildness
• Ability to cultivate and maintain a vast network of
personal relationships.
• Strategies to mesure:
- trust against prudence
- intimacy against authority
- openness against protocol
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8. Tolerance
Context of brutal religious wars on
the continent.
Union of Catholics and Protestants
through the common ground of their
shared nationality.
“The beneficent idea of toleration
was born”
8Elizabethan church and catholics

9. Ruthlessness
• To be ruthless when necessary
in defense of her realm
• 1588 Spanish Armada
• Execution: catholics rebels and her foes
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10. World’s change of beliefs about the abilities and
power of women
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Women’s power
Elizabeth Tudor: Reconciling feminity and authority

11. A Golden Age
• Religious and political changes
• Victory in Spanish Armada in1588
• Development of:
Literature, militarism, science and trade expansion!
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12. A Golden Age
• Colonization of the New World
• Anglican Church in 1559
• Inspiration of loyalty, love and devotion of people for 45
years
12Elizabethan Era – Golden Age

13. Elizabeth…
She shall be loved and feared.
Her own shall bless her: her foes shake like
a field of beaten corn, and hang their heads with sorrow.
Good grows with her.
In her days every man shall eat in
safety under his own vine what he plants
and sing the merry songs of peace
to all his neighbors.
William Shakespeare
Nathalia COSTA GRIMALDI GOEDE
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