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Tudors : the history of England from Henry VIII to Elizabeth I
Author
Title
Tudors : the history of England from Henry VIII to Elizabeth I / Peter Ackroyd.
ISBN
9781250003621 (hbk.)
1250003628 (hbk.)
9781250037596 (ebk.)
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Publication
New York : Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2013.
Copyright Notice Date
©2012.
Physical Description
x, 507 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), color map ; 25 cm
Notes
First published in Great Britain by Macmillan as a set, complete in 6 volumes, under the common title: The history of England; Tudors is volume 2 in that series.
Summary
Ackroyd brings the age of the Tudors to vivid life, charting the course of English history from Henry VIII's cataclysmic break with Rome to the epic rule of Elizabeth I.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 20, 2013
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 473-481) and index.
Contents
Hallelujah
All in scarlet
Heretic!
The woes of marriage
Into court
Old authentic histories
The king's pleasure
A little neck
The great revolt
The confiscation
The old fashion
The body of Christ
The fall
War games
A family portrait
The last days
The breaking of the altars
Have at all papists!
The barns of Crediton
The lord of misrule
The nine-day queen
In the ascendant
Faith of our fathers
An age of anxiety
Nunc Dimittis
A virgin queen
Two queens
The thirty-nine steps
The rivals
The rites of spring
Plots and factions
The revels now are ended
The frog
The great plot
The dead cannot bite
Armada
Repent! Repent!
The setting sun
A disobedient servant
The end of days
Reformation.
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