A brief history of the Tudor Age / Jasper Ridley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ridley, Jasper Godwin.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Great Britain--History--Tudors, 1485-1603.

Great Britain.

History.

Tudor, House of.

Physical Description:

xx, 344 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 20 cm

Edition:

First Carroll and Graf edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2002.

Summary:

Beginning with the arrival of Henry Tudor and his army at Milford in 1485 to depose Richard III, and ending with the death of the great Queen Elizabeth I in 1603, this incisive and informative brief history provides a vivid account of an England's most eventful and contradictory age. Its presentation of the life both in the burgeoning capital of London and in the countryside includes discussion of the costumes of the period, modes of travel, food and medicine, sports and pastimes, and the amazing explosion of English drama that would make the name of William Shakespeare a household word for all time. Nor does this volume overlook the stultifying narrowness of peasant life, the harsh treatment of heretics and traitors, the intrigues and machinations at the court, and the miseries of the plague. In all, A Brief History of the Tudor Age paints an astonishing panorama of an England of great beauty and violence, of splendor and squalor, of achievement and despair.

Notes:

"First published in the UK by Constable and Co. Ltd, 1998"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [305]-317) and index.

ISBN:

0786710349

OCLC:

50478508