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Title:
Tudors : the history of England from Henry VIII to Elizabeth I
Author:
Ackroyd, Peter, 1949-
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
New York : Thomas Dunne Books, c2012.
Physical Description:
x, 507 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
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.
General Note:
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.
Language:
English
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.
ISBN:
9781250003621
Format :
Book