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The time traveller's guide to Elizabethan England

By Ian , Mortimer

Book information

Publisher
Random House;Bodley Head
Year
2012
ISBN
9781847921147, 1847921140
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (2169453 bytes)
Pages
420\0
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
1558-1603. Manners and customs. Social conditionsEngland -- Social life and customs -- 16th century

Description

We think of Queen Elizabeth I as 'Gloriana': the most powerful English woman in history. We think of her reign (1558-1603) as a golden age of maritime heroes, like Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Richard Grenville and Sir Francis Drake, and of great writers, such as Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson and William Shakespeare. Abstract: We think of Queen Elizabeth I as 'Gloriana': the most powerful English woman in history. We think of her reign (1558-1603) as a golden age of maritime heroes. But what was it actually like to live in Elizabethan England? This book answers the key questions that a prospective traveller to late sixteenth-century England would ask. Read more...

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