The Elizabethans
By: A.N. Wilson
Publisher: Hutchinson
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9780091931513
Subjects: Intellectual life; Civilization; History
Description: With all the panoramic sweep of his bestselling study of The Victorians, A.N. Wilson relates the exhilarating story of the Elizabethan Age. It was a time of exceptional creativity, wealth creation and political expansion.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The early reign.; title: The difficulty; title: The new world; title: Ceremonial; title: twixt earnest and twixt game; title: Men in power; title: Which church?; title: The new learning; title: A library at Mortlake; title: The northern rebellion; title: 1570s.; title: St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre; title: Elizabethan women; title: Histories; title: Kenilworth; title: Ireland; title: Sir Francis Drake's circumnavigation; title: A frog he would a-wooing go; title: 1580s.; title: Religious dissent; title: Sir Philip Sidney; title: Hakluyt and empire; title: The Scottish queen; title: The Armada.; title: London and theatre; title: Marprelate and Hooker; title: The close of the reign; title: A hive for bees; title: Sex and the city; title: The occult philosophy; title: My America.