Author : William Harrison
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 17,45 MB
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780486282756
Presents a portrait of daily life in Tudor England, including food and diet, laws, clothing, punishments for criminals, languages, lodging, and the appearance of the people.
Author : William Harrison
Publisher :
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 33,98 MB
Release : 2010-10
Category :
ISBN : 1406857173
Compiled from material taken from Harrison's "Description of England" which was produced as part of the publishing venture of a group of London stationers who produced Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles (London 1577).
Author : Simon Jenkins
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 10,44 MB
Release : 2011-11-22
Category : History
ISBN : 1610391438
The heroes and villains, triumphs and disasters of English history are instantly familiar -- from the Norman Conquest to Henry VIII, Queen Victoria to the two World Wars. But to understand their full significance we need to know the whole story. A Short History of England sheds new light on all the key individuals and events in English history by bringing them together in an enlightening account of the country's birth, rise to global prominence, and then partial eclipse. Written with flair and authority by Guardian columnist and London Times former editor Simon Jenkins, this is the definitive narrative of how today's England came to be. Concise but comprehensive, with more than a hundred color illustrations, this beautiful single-volume history will be the standard work for years to come.
Author : Paulina Kewes
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 811 pages
File Size : 39,64 MB
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 0199565759
The Handbook brings together forty articles by leading scholars of history, literature, religion, and classics, in the first full investigation of the significance of Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (1577, 1587), the greatest of Elizabethan chronicles and a principal source for Shakespeare's history plays.
Author : Lothrop Withington
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 20,7 MB
Release : 2024-05-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3385491673
Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
Author : Norah Lofts
Publisher : Doubleday Books
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 26,93 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Discusses the personal and public lives of women who have been English queens, from Boadicea in the first century to the present Queen Elizabeth II.
Author : G.R. Elton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 49,31 MB
Release : 2018-08-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0429854412
‘Anyone who writes about the Tudor century puts his head into a number of untamed lions’ mouths.’ G.R. Elton, Preface Geoffrey Elton (1921–1994) was one of the great historians of the Tudor period. England Under the Tudors is his major work and an outstanding history of a crucial and turbulent period in British and European history. Revised several times since its first publication in 1955, England Under the Tudors charts a historical period that witnessed monumental changes in religion, monarchy, and government – and one that continued to shape British history long after. Spanning the commencement of Henry VII's reign to the death of Elizabeth I, Elton’s magisterial account is populated by many colourful and influential characters, from Cardinal Wolsey, Thomas Cranmer, and Thomas Cromwell to Henry VIII and Mary Queen of Scots. Elton also examines aspects of the Tudor period that had been previously overlooked, such as empire and commonwealth, agriculture and industry, seapower, and the role of the arts and literature. This Routledge Classics edition includes a new foreword by Diarmaid MacCulloch.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 23,67 MB
Release : 1847
Category : Great Britain
ISBN :
Author : Julian Barnes
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 16,60 MB
Release : 2009-01-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 030755595X
BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • From the internationally acclaimed bestselling author The Sense of an Ending comes a "wickedly funny” novel (The New York Times) about an idyllic land of make-believe in England that gets horribly and hilariously out of hand. Imagine an England where all the pubs are quaint, where the Windsors behave themselves (mostly), where the cliffs of Dover are actually white, and where Robin Hood and his merry men really are merry. This is precisely what visionary tycoon, Sir Jack Pitman, seeks to accomplish on the Isle of Wight, a "destination" where tourists can find replicas of Big Ben (half size), Princess Di's grave, and even Harrod's (conveniently located inside the tower of London). Martha Cochrane, hired as one of Sir Jack's resident "no-people," ably assists him in realizing his dream. But when things go awry, Martha develops her own vision of the perfect England. Julian Barnes delights us with a novel that is at once a philosophical inquiry, a burst of mischief, and a moving elegy about authenticity and nationality.
Author : Kristine L. Haglund
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 29,59 MB
Release : 2021-12-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0252052862
Eugene England championed an optimistic Mormon faith open to liberalizing ideas from American culture. At the same time, he remained devoted to a conservative Mormonism that he saw as a vehicle for progress even as it narrowed the range of acceptable belief. Kristine L. Haglund views England’s writing through the tensions produced by his often-opposed intellectual and spiritual commitments. Though labeled a liberal, England had a traditional Latter-day Saint background and always sought to address fundamental questions in Mormon terms. His intellectually adventurous essays sometimes put him at odds with Church authorities and fellow believers. But he also influenced a generation of thinkers and cofounded Dialogue, a Mormon academic and literary journal acclaimed for the broad range of its thought. A fascinating portrait of a Mormon intellectual and his times, Eugene England reveals a believing scholar who emerged from the lived experiences of his faith to engage with the changes roiling Mormonism in the twentieth century.
