Tudor & Elizabethan Era

In the autumn of 1523, Roger Shallot, self-proclaimed physician, rogue, charlatan and secret emissary of King Henry VIII, has nothing to do. His master, Benjamin Daunbey, has been sent to Italy on a diplomatic mission, leaving him in charge of their...

The Survey of Cornwall by Richard Carew, published in 1603, is the first and classic description of Cornwall, The first of two parts describes its landscape, mining, agriculture, fishing, communications, and government, anddiscusses the Cornish people,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789554960Author Diane Calton SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint New Generation PublishingPublisher New Generation PublishingWeight(grams) 287g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912260454Author Elizabeth GriffithsFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint University of Hertfordshire PressPublisher University of Hertfordshire Press

Peasant Perceptions of Landscape marks a change in the discipline of landscape history, as well as making a major contribution to the history of everyday life. Until now, there has been no sustained analysis of how ordinary medieval and early modern...

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During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, English numerical practices underwent a complex transformation with wide-ranging impacts on English society. At the beginning of the early modern period, English men and women believed that God had made...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063062979Author Laurence BergreenFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint HarperLuxePublisher HarperLuxeWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639366125Author Joanne PaulFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 612gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 150mm * 43mm

What did it mean to be a 'go-between' in the early modern world? How were such figures perceived in sixteenth and seventeenth century England? And what effect did their movement between languages, countries, religions and social spaces - whether enforced...

Originally published in 1970, this volume examines the history of the Yorkist and early Tudor royal landed estate, conducted in the light of its role in earlier medieval history and especially in Lancastrian government. It provides material with which to...

Maritime Musicians and Performers on Early Modern English Voyages aims to tell the full story of early English shipboard performers, who have been historically absent from conversations about English navigation, maritime culture, and economic expansion...

The forty-four-year reign of Elizabeth I, daughter of Henry VIII and the last Tudor monarch, was considered a golden age. It saw the emergence of the great playwrights such as William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe, while the exploits of Sir Francis...

Sixteenth-century Europe was a time of destabilisation of age-old norms and the waging of religious wars-yet it also witnessed the remarkable flowering of a pacific culture cultivated by a cohort of extraordinary women rulers who sat on Europe's thrones,...

Gruesome but not gratuitous, this decidedly darker take on the Tudors, from 1485 to 1603, covers some forty-five ‘events’ from the Tudor reign, taking in everything from the death of Richard III to the botched execution of Mary Queen of Scots, and a...

King Edward VI tends to be glossed over in the historical narrative of the Tudor dynasty. His achievements during his brief time on the throne are eclipsed by the tumultuous and fascinating reigns of his grandfather, father and two half-sisters. This...

This book seeks to refresh and retell the story of Queen Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots through their own words. Accompanying a major British Library exhibition, Elizabeth and Mary: Royal Cousins, Rival Queens brings new insights to the familiar...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789558852Author Ian JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint New Generation PublishingPublisher New Generation PublishingWeight(grams) 515g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643130002Author Kate WilliamsFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 612gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 150mm *...

Even the most beloved of sovereigns faced moments of disorder and disruption at some stage during their reign. How they responded to those periods is what made them a great or a weak monarch. More importantly, it is what continues to make their reigns...

Most of the women and men who practiced magic in Tudor England were not hanged or burned as witches, despite being active members of their communities. These everyday magicians responded to common human problems such as the vagaries of money, love,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802163318Author Tracy BormanFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press

The Field of Cloth of Gold was one of the greatest courtly spectacles of the sixteenth century. A carefully-orchestrated meeting outside Calais between Henry VIII and Francis I, it encapsulated Henry's imperial ambitions and confirmed the role of the...

This is the first published edition of a fascinating manuscript on witchcraft in the collection of the British Library, written by an unknown sixteenth-century scholar. Responding to a pre-publication draft of Reginald Scot's sceptical Discoverie of...

Originally published in 1971 this book begins with the assumption that the Dissolution of the Monasteries was neither an integral nor an essential part of the English reformation. This book pursues the story chronologically and thus helps students...

Sir George Buc (1560-1622), one of the careful antiquarian scholars of the English Renaissance, is famous in literary history as Master of Revels under King James I, a position in which he was responsible for censorship of Shakespeare's later plays. His...

In 1578, the Anglo-Italian author, translator, and teacher John Florio wrote that English was 'a language that wyl do you good in England, but passe Dover, it is woorth nothing'. Learning Languages in Early Modern England is the first major study of...

This collection brings together historians, political theorists and literary scholars to provide historical perspectives on the modern debate over freedom of speech, particularly the question of whether limitations might be necessary given religious...

This book reassesses the religious politics of Elizabethan England through a study of one of its most unusual figures. Sir Christopher Hatton, a royal favourite turned senior minister, was unique among Elizabeth's leading ministers in being a consistent...

The co-monarchy of Mary I and Philip II put England at the heart of early modern Europe. This positive reassessment of their joint reign counters a series of parochial, misogynist and anti-Catholic assumptions, correcting the many myths that have grown...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914407291Author John LelandFormat PaperbackPage Count 586Imprint Hobnob PressPublisher Hobnob PressWeight(grams) 807g

'Rich people behaving badly' BooklistThe battle lines are drawn . . .Following the scandalous revelations about his love life, disgraced media mogul Harry Rose is searching for redemption. His daughters - bright, winsome Eliza and dark, difficult Maria -...

This volume for 1997 contains transcriptions of all the 266 probate inventories that could be traced for the parish of Uffculme, Devon, together with abstracts of the accompanying wills and administrations which have survived. Added to these are 322...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913735029Author Rose HewlettFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Bristol & Gloucestershire Archaeological SocietyPublisher Bristol & Gloucestershire...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451694185Author Thomas PennFormat PaperbackPage Count 688Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 726gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 155mm...

Have you ever hankered to dress like a Tudor lord or lady, or perhaps you prefer the status of goodwife, or costermonger, or even a bawd? For beginner historical reenactors, the path to authenticity can be bewildering and sometimes intimidating. Judith...

This entirely fresh narrative of the "British Reformations" focuses on the emotional as well as the material experience of living through the reformations in Britain during the sixteenth century.The Protestant reformations that took place in England and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781835630679Author Lewis BennettFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint New Generation PublishingPublisher New Generation PublishingWeight(grams)...