The Tudor Age: A Brief History:
Beginning with the arrival of Henry Tudor and his army, at Milford in 1485, and ending with the death of the great Queen Elizabeth I, in 1603, this is a vivid account of a hugely eventful and contradictory age. Here is life in London and in the country, the costumes, travel, food and medicine, the sports and pastimes, and the wonderful flowering of English drama, juxtaposed with the stultifying narrowness of peasant life, the harsh treatment of heretics and traitors, and the misery of the plague. An astonishing picture of an England of great beauty and violence, achievement and despair.
The Tudor Age: A Brief History
Tudor England: An Encyclopedia:
This is the first encyclopedia devoted to the study of the Tudor period (1485-1603). It offers some 700 entries. Includes b&w photos and illustrations, plus color photos of paintings and artifacts. Hardcover, 837pp
Tudor England: An Encyclopedia
Your Travel Guide to Renaissance Europe:
Takes readers on a journey back in time in order to experience life in Europe during the Renaissance, describing clothing, accommodations, foods, local customs, transportation, a few notable personalities, and more. A cunning text linked to ample maps and illustrations makes this synopsis of Renaissance life in Europe an excellent addition to intellectual travels. For ages 12 and up.
Your Travel Guide to Renaissance Europe
A survey of women with guts, great-heartedness, and grim determination from the 1500s to the 1800s. The latest installment in the best-selling Uppity Women series follows fearless females as they brave new worlds, pioneer the wilderness on three continents, and fight slavery and injustice. A hilarious yet sobering glance at 200 women in North and South America and Australia who took their destinies into their own hands.
Uppity Women of the New World
Out of the Flames: The Remarkable Story of a Fearless Scholar, a Fatal Heresy, and One of the Rarest Books in the World:
When Michael Servetus was burned at the stake for heresy in 1553, he had spent much of his life running from the Church. By age 20, he had written a treatise on the Trinity that incensed Church authorities and led him into self-imposed exile. The book that doomed Servetus was Christianismi Restitutio (Christianity Restored). This book tracks the history of the three copies of the Restitutio that managed to survive destruction by the Church. A portrait of an important but neglected Renaissance humanist and a testimony to the power of books to shape minds and hearts. Read the great reviews.
Out of the Flames: The Remarkable Story of a Fearless Scholar, a Fatal Heresy, and One of the Rarest Books in the World
Where might a knave find a loose lady in the time of Queen Elizabeth? What vegetable did Jacobean doctors prescribe for a scorpion bite? A fascinating picture of the age taken from books, plays, poems, letters, diaries and pamphlets by and about Shakespeare's contemporaries. Also included are accounts of theatre-going, May Day celebrations, Queen Elizabeth at court, the place of women, education, garden books and herbals, clothes, food, drink and religion. Read the reviews for more about this colorful and detailed account.
Shakespeare's England: Life in Elizabethan and Jacobean Times
Tudor Housewife:
What of the thousands of women who have, for the most part, eluded the historian's pen? ...a unique and accessible introduction to the everyday life and responsibilities of women from all levels of society in the age of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I. Written by Alison Sim.
Tudor Housewife
Rise and Fall of Anne Boleyn:
Both popular and scholarly biographies of her have come along with some regularity. Quite simply though, this one transcends all previous efforts. Thanks to painstaking research and shrewd analytical skills, Warnicke gives us substantial new insight on both the woman and her times. Her central thesis, that the execution derived in large measure from Henry's concern with perpetuating his dynasty, is a convincing one, and she shows clearly that previous biographers have been all too ready to accept distorted evidence at face value. She links Anne's execution to medieval views of witchcraft, homosexuality and childbirth. It is both well-written and well-researched.
Rise and Fall of Anne Boleyn
La Cazzaria: The Book of the Prick:
"La Cazzaria" is the most outspoken erotic text of the Italian Renaissance -- a ribald dialogue about politics, sex, and desire written in 1525 by Antonio Vignali, a young Italian nobleman from Siena. Here, in the Rabelaisian depictions of personified genitalia and other bodily organs, a page of our sexual past is restored. "La Cazzaria" was daring and provocative in its day, and remains so today. Published here for the first time in English.
La Cazzaria: The Book of the Prick
The Family, Sex and Marriage in England: 1500 - 1800:
"Vast in theme and with a cast of characters beyond counting, the result is a 'War and Peace' of social history."--New York Times Book Review.
"The best book of the history of the family in any nation or period."
— Harper Collins - New Media
The Family, Sex and Marriage in England: 1500 - 1800: Abridged Edition
Dictionary of Catch Phrases: American and British, from the 16th Century to the Present Day
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Travel through time from the comfort of your living room. Join us as we explore the age known as the Renaissance, or re-birth, which began around 1400-1450 AD. Ancient Greek and Roman art were rediscovered, and artists, sculptors and scientists were inspired by a humanistic outlook that, combined with Christianity, produced masterpieces such as the Pieta, Sistine Chapel, the dome on St. Peter's Church in Rome, Leonardo's inventions and anatomy drawings and the discovery of the Americas. Maritime competition and trade led to the exchange of new ideas and knowledge.
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