Sir Francis Drake: A Brief History of the Tudor Age

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Beginning with the arrival of Henry Tudor and his army at Milford in 1485 and ending with the death of Elizabeth I in 1603, this is an account of an eventful and contradictory age. The author draws together all the strands of Tudor social life into a tapestry displaying every aspect of the times. He contrasts the life of palaces, grand tournaments and English drama with the harshness of peasant life, terrible roads, a vast underclass, the harsh treatment of heretics and traitors and the misery of the Plague Content: Cover Author biography Title page Copyright page Dedication page Contents Illustrations Acknowledgments Chronology 1 The Tudor Family 2 London 3 The King's Highway 4 The Estates of the Realm 5 Heretics and Traitors 6 The Houses 7 Costume and Fashion 8 Furniture and Food 9 Husbandry 10 Scholars and Doctors 11 Ships and Voyages 12 Law-enforcement and War 13 Sports and Pastimes 14 Beggars and Vagabonds 15 Tudor Men and Women Sources Index.