When Elizabeth I visited the city of Norwich, she was publicly praised as a virgin queen for the first time in her reign. Although this image of Elizabeth becomes important to later historiography, this essay argues that there is a more sustained strand of royal myth-making in this visit that gives her even greater independent and specific political authority: that of an educated queen. At Norwich, Elizabeth was addressed more frequently in Latin than during any other visit during her reign, except for her visits to the universities. This essay analyzes the Latin texts to show how Norwich’s civic officials used this image to praise Elizabeth as a queen so individually powerful that she should commit more firmly to remaining a distinctly unmarried goddess of wisdom, a champion of Norwich, and the Nurse of God’s True (Protestant) Church. What goes unspoken is that she has no need for a foreign Catholic husband in the French Duke of Anjou—the context that underwrites the praise of her as a virgin queen. These Latin texts convey Elizabeth as a queen who has already the specific authority and nurturing care that give her distinctly peaceful nation all it needs to remain strong, prosperous, and religiously unified.

当伊丽莎白一世访问诺里奇市时，她在位期间首次被公开称赞为处女皇后。尽管伊丽莎白的形象对后来的史学很重要，但本文认为，这次访问中存在着更为持久的皇家神话，这赋予了她更大的独立性和具体的政治权威：受过教育的女王。在诺里奇，伊丽莎白在拉丁语中的讲话频率比她执政期间的任何其他访问都要多，除了她对大学的访问。本文对拉丁文字进行了分析，以显示诺里奇的公民官员如何利用这一形象来赞美伊丽莎白为女王，因为女王个人力量强大，她应该更加坚定地致力于保留一个未婚的智慧女神，诺里奇的拥护者和上帝的真Nurse （新教徒）教堂。直言不讳的是，她不需要法国安茹公爵的外国天主教丈夫，这是对她作为处女皇后的称赞的支持。这些拉丁文字传达了伊丽莎白女王的王后身份，她已经拥有特殊的权威和抚养权，这给了她一个非常和平的民族，以保持强大，繁荣和宗教统一的一切。