Book Description
This graphic depiction of a turbulent era in British history examines the lives of commoners and the nobility. The author combines vivid description with provocative argument to describe these exciting and dramatic events.
Author : Christopher Hill
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 40,65 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 0415267390
This graphic depiction of a turbulent era in British history examines the lives of commoners and the nobility. The author combines vivid description with provocative argument to describe these exciting and dramatic events.
Author : Mark Kishlansky
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 515 pages
File Size : 31,34 MB
Release : 1997-08-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0140148272
A Monarchy Transformed is a vigorous, concise account of the political developments that changed an isolated archipelago in the corner of Europe into one of the greatest powers of the Western world.
Author : Barry Coward
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 44,61 MB
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN :
A major undertaking in its own right, this Second Edition of The Stuart Age (revised throughout, and reset in a more generous format) is fully worthy of the immensely successful First Edition. It provides clear and accessible interpretations of the many changes that took place in these crowded years -- still the centre of the most lively and intellectually exciting debates of any period of British history -- but its aim is not to persuade readers to accept these interpretations uncritically, but to help them take part in the ongoing debate themselves.
Author : John Spurr
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 33,98 MB
Release : 2014-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 1317882628
The 17th century was a dynamic period characterized by huge political and social changes, including the Civil War, the execution of Charles I, the Commonwealth and the Restoration. The Britain of 1714 was recognizably more modern than it was in 1603. At the heart of these changes was religion and the search for an acceptable religious settlement, which stimulated the Pilgrim Fathers to leave to settle America, the Popish plot and the Glorious Revolution in which James II was kicked off the throne. This book looks at both the private aspects of human beliefs and practices and also institutional religion, investigating the growing competition between rival versions of Christianity and the growing expectation that individuals should be allowed to worship as they saw fit.
Author : Barry Coward
Publisher : Pearson Education
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 38,80 MB
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 9780582772519
Introduces the history of Stuart England. Suggested level: senior secondary.
Author : Andrea Zuvich
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 14,99 MB
Release : 2020-09-19
Category : History
ISBN : 1526753081
An expert in Stuart England examines the sexual lives of Britons in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries in this frank, informative, and revealing history. Acclaimed Stuart historian Andrea Zuvich explores the sexual mores of Stuart Britain, including surprising beliefs, bizarre practices, and ingenious solutions for infertility, impotence, sexually transmitted diseases, and more. Along the way, she reveals much about the prevailing attitudes towards male and female sexual behavior. Zuvich sheds light not only on the saucy love lives of the Royal Stuarts, but also on the dark underbelly of the Stuart era with histories of prostitution, sexual violence, infanticide, and sexual deviance. She looks at everything from what was considered sexually attractive to the penalties for adultery, incest, and fornication. Sex and Sexuality in Stuart Britain touches on the fashion, food, science, art, medicine, magic, literature, love, politics, faith and superstition of the day.
Author : Godfrey Davies
Publisher : Oxford : Clarendon Press
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 35,70 MB
Release : 1959
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 9780198217046
Author : George Macaulay Trevelyan
Publisher : London : Methuen
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 31,57 MB
Release : 1911
Category : Great Britain
ISBN :
Author : Robert Bucholz
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 12,10 MB
Release : 2013-04-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1118697251
The second edition of this bestselling narrative history has been revised and expanded to reflect recent scholarship. The book traces the transformation of England during the Tudor-Stuart period, from feudal European state to a constitutional monarchy and the wealthiest and most powerful nation on Earth. Written by two leading scholars and experienced teachers of the subject, assuming no prior knowledge of British history Provides student aids such as maps, illustrations, genealogies, and glossary This edition reflects recent scholarship on Henry VIII and the Civil War Extends coverage of the Reformations, the Rump and Barebone's Parliament, Cromwellian settlement of Ireland, and the European, Scottish, and Irish contexts of the Restoration and Revolution of 1688-9 Includes a new section on women’s roles and the historiography of women and gender Click here for more discussion and debate on the authors’ blogspot: http://earlymodernengland.blogspot.com/ [Wiley disclaims all responsibility and liability for the content of any third-party websites that can be linked to from this website. Users assume sole responsibility for accessing third-party websites and the use of any content appearing on such websites. Any views expressed in such websites are the views of the authors of the content appearing on those websites and not the views of Wiley or its affiliates, nor do they in any way represent an endorsement by Wiley or its affiliates.]
Author : Aidan Norrie
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 23,21 MB
Release : 2022-07-20
Category : History
ISBN : 3030951979
This book examines the lives and tenures of all the consorts of the Tudor and Stuart monarchs of England between 1485 and 1714, as well as the wives of the two Lords Protector during the Commonwealth. The figures in Tudor and Stuart Consorts are both incredibly familiar—especially the six wives of Henry VIII—and exceedingly unfamiliar, such as George of Denmark, the husband of Queen Anne. These innovative and authoritative biographies recognise the important role consorts played in a period before constitutional monarchy: in addition to correcting popular assumptions that are based on limited historical evidence, the chapters provide a fuller picture of the role of consort that goes beyond discussions of exceptionalism and subversion. This volume and its companions reveal the changing nature of English consortship from the Norman Conquest to today.