Birth,
Marriage, and Death: Ritual, Religion, and the Life-Cycle in Tudor and
Stuart England
by David Cressy
Book Description: From childbirth and baptism through to courtship,
weddings, and funerals, every stage in the lifecycle of Tudor and Stuart
England was accompanied by ritual. Even under the Protestantism of the
reformed Church, the spiritual and social dramas of birth, marriage, and
death were graced with elaborate ceremony. Powerful and controversial protocols
were in operation, shaped and altered by the influences of the Reformation,
the Revolution, and the Restoration. Each of the major rituals was potentially
an arena for argument, ambiguity, and dissent. Ideally, as classic rites
of passage, these ceremonies worked to bring people together. But they
also set up traps into which people could stumble, and tests which not
everybody could pass. In practice, ritual performance revealed frictions
and fractures that everyday local discourse attempted to hide or to heal.
Using fascinating first-hand evidence, David Cressy shows how the making
and remaking of ritual formed part of a continuing debate, sometimes strained
and occasionally acrimonious, which exposed the raw nerves of society in
the midst of great historical events. In doing so, he vividly brings to
life the common experiences of living and dying in Tudor and Stuart England.
Paperback: 664 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.36 x
9.15 x 6.17
Publisher: Getty Ctr for Education in the Arts; (July
1999)
ISBN: 0198207883
Bloody
Mary
by Carolly Erickson
Daughter of Henry VIII and crowned in 1553, Mary Tudor was the only
Catholic Queen of England. Her penchant for sending Protestants to the
stake earned her the nickname.
Paperback: 560 pages
Griffin Trade Paperback; ISBN: 0312187068; Reprint edition
(September 1998)
A
Brief History of the Tudor Age
by Jasper Ridley
Book Description: 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 England’s most eventful and contradictory
age. Its presentation of the life both in the burgeoning capital of London
and in the countryside includes 16 pages of full-color and black-and-white
photographs, as well as 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.
Paperback: 304 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.98 x
7.70 x 5.14
Publisher: Carroll & Graf; ; (September 2002)
ISBN: 0786710349
The
Closing of the Middle Ages: England, 1471-1529 (History of Medieval Britain)
by Richard Britnell
Courtship
and Constraint: Rethinking the Making of Marriage in Tudor England
by Diane O'Hara
Publisher: Manchester Univ Pr; (October 4, 2002)
The
Description of England
by William Harrison, Georges Edelen (Editor)
Publisher: Dover Pubns; (February 1995)
England
and Wales Under the Tudors
by Sinclair Atkins.
England
Under the Tudors
by Geoffrey R. Elton
Elizabeth and Essex: A Tragic History
by Lytton Strachey
Listed under Elizabeth I
Mary Queen of Scots
by Antonia Fraser
Listed under Mary Queen of Scots
Henry VIII: The King and His Court
by Alison Weir
Listed under Henry VIII
Mistress
Anne
by Carolly Erickson
A somewhat ponderous study of the life of Anne Boleyn.
Paperback: 304 pages
Griffin Trade Paperback; ISBN: 0312187475; Reprint edition
(August 1998)
Great Harry
by Carolly Erickson
Listed under Henry VIII
Faith
and Treason: The Story of the Gunpowder Plot
by Antonia Fraser
Our term "guy," slang for any man, comes from the name of Guy Fawkes,
the alleged ringleader of the bungled plot to blow up King James I and
the subject of Bonfire Night, the odd English holiday celebrated on November
5 by burning the execrable Guy in effigy. This and other facts tumble from
the pages of this fascinating account of the Gunpowder Plot, written by
the distinguished novelist and historian Antonia Fraser. Fraser delves
into English religious history to show the harsh persecution of Roman Catholics
under Jacobean rule and how James I disappointed those Catholics who hoped
for a more liberal reign. - Amazon.com
Paperback: 416 pages
Doubleday; ISBN: 0385471904; (November 1997)
The First Elizabeth
by Carolly Erickson
Listed under Elizabeth I
Daily
Life in Elizabethan England
by Jeffrey L. Singman, Will McClean
Hardcover: 248 pages
Greenwood Publishing Group; ISBN: 031329335X; (August
1995)
A Coffin for King Charles
by C. V. Wedgwood
Listed under Charles I
The
Royal Palaces of Tudor England: Architecture and Court Life 1460-1547
by Simon Thurley
Hardcover: 283 pages
Yale Univ Pr; ISBN: 0300054203; (November 1993)
John
Donne's 1622 Gunpowder Plot Sermon: A Parallel-Text Edition (Duquesne Studies.
Language and Literature Series, Vol 22)
by John Donne, et al
(Hardcover - December 1996)
Special Order
What
Gunpowder Plot Was
by Samuel R. Gardiner
(Hardcover - June 1971)
Special Order
The
Gunpowder Plot
by Hugh Ross Williamson
(Hardcover - March 1996)
Special Order
The Great Fire of London: In That Apocalyptic Year, 1666
by Neil Hanson
Listed under Great Fire of London
Historical
Dictionary of Tudor England, 1485-1603
by Ronald H. Fritze (Editor)
Book Description: Fritze and his associate editors have identified
the political, military, religious, social, and economic issues that were
crucial to the age of the English Tudors and have compiled articles, a
chronology and suggestions for further reading on each topic. Nearly 300
entries, ranging from 250-2,000 words, discuss people, events, laws, institutions
and special topics such as exploration...
Library Binding: 616 pages ; Dimensions (in inches):
1.48 x 9.61 x 6.43
Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group; ; (November 1991)
ISBN: 0313265984
The
Later Tudors: England 1547-1603
by Penry Williams
The
Making of the Tudor Dynasty
by Ralph A. Griffiths and Roger S. Thomas
New
Worlds, Lost Worlds: The Rule of the Tudors, 1485-1603
by Susan Brigden
Book Description No period in British history retains more resonance
and mystery for contemporary readers than the sixteenth century. For history
buffs, or almost any reader, the figures and events of Tudor Britain approach
those of myth. Already published to critical acclaim in Great Britain,
The Rule of the Tudors traces the course and currents of this formative
era from the secretive Henry VII and his charming, capricious, ruthless
Renaissance son, Henry VIII, to "Bloody Mary" Tudor and her nemesis, Elizabeth
I, who trumpeted her adroit rule of a man's world with "the body of a weak
and feeble woman but...the heart and stomach of a king."
Above all, the Tudor epoch emerges as a battleground between the new
world of Protestantism and the old one of unquestioned Catholicism-a great
religious rent in the fabric of English society that underlies turbulence
and carnage from Henry VIII's break with Rome to the threat of conquest
by Spain. The Rule of the Tudors is an authoritative, impeccably written,
and startlingly atmospheric history.
Publisher: Viking Press; (June 25, 2001)
The
Oxford Illustrated History of Tudor & Stuart Britain
by J. S. Morrill (Editor)
Publisher: Oxford University Press; (January 2001)
Princes,
Pastors and People: The Church and Religion in England, 1500-1700
by Susan Doran et al.
Publisher: Routledge; 2 edition (January 1, 2003)
Rethinking
the Henrician Era
by Peter C. Herman
Publisher: Univ of Illinois Pr (Pro Ref); (February 1994)
The
Royal Palaces of Tudor England: Architecture and Court Life 1460-1547
by Simon Thurley
(Hardcover - November 1993)
Sir Francis Drake: The Queen's Pirate
by Harry Kelsey
Listed under Spanish Armada
Six Wives of Henry VIII
by Alison Weir
Listed under Henry VIII
Spectacle
Pageantry and Early Tudor Policy
by Sydney Anglo
Travesties
and Transgressions in Tudor and Stuart England: Tales of Discord and Dissension
by David Cressy
Book Description: This book examines how the orderly, Protestant,
and hierarchical society of post-Reformation England coped with the cultural
challenges posed by various beliefs and events outside the social norm.
David Cressy employs a series of linked stories and close readings of local
texts and narratives to investigate such unorthodox happenings as bestiality
and monstrous births, seduction and abortion, excommunication and irregular
burial, and nakedness and cross-dressing.
Each story--and the reaction it generated--exposes the strains and stresses
of this unique phase of British history. As Cressy points out, the reigns
of Elizabeth, James, and Charles I saw endless religious disputes, tussles
for power within the aristocracy, and countless arguments about the behavior
and beliefs of common people. Questions raised by "unnatural" episodes
were widely debated at both the local and national levels, and drew the
attention of magistrates, bishops, crown, and court. The resolution of
such questions was not taken lightly in a world where God and the devil
were still fighting for people's souls.
Publisher: Oxford University Press; (January 2000)
The
Tudor Dynasty
by Richard Rex
Publisher: Tempus Pub Ltd; (October 2002)
Tudor
Cousins: Rivals for the Throne
by Dulcie M. Ashdown
The
Tudor Monarchy
by John Guy (Editor)
The
Tudor Monarchies, 1485-1603
by John McGurk
Paperback: 128 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.30 x
8.98 x 6.05
Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr (Trd); ; (April 1999)
ISBN: 0521596653
Tudor
England
by John Guy
Book Description: John Guy here provides the most complete narrative
history of Tudor England in more than 30 years. A compelling account of
political and religious developments from the advent of the Tudors in the
1460s to the death of Elizabeth I in 1603, his authoritative study discusses
the far-reaching changes in government and the Reformation of the Church
under Henry VII, Edward VI, Mary, and Elizabeth, and is enriched with illuminating
character studies of the monarchs and politicians of the era. Taking into
account new debates on the progress of the English Reformation and the
strengths and weaknesses of Tudor Government at a local and national level,
the book includes contextual analyses of the Tudor English economy, society,
and political culture.
Publisher: Oxford University Press; Reprint edition (March 1990)
The
Tudor Age and Beyond: England from the Black Death to the End of the Age
of Elizabeth
by Arthur J. Slavin
Publisher: Krieger Publishing Company; (January 1987)
The
Tudor and Stuart Monarchy: Pageantry, Painting, Iconography
by Roy Strong
The
Tudor Image
by Maurice Howard
Tudor
Costume and Fashion
by Herbert Norris
The
Tudor Housewife
by Alison Sim
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press; Reprint edition (January
2001)
Tudor
Women: Queens and Commoners
by Alison Plowden
Publisher: Sutton Publishing; (August 2002)
The
Tudors (Royal History of England)
by Neville Williams and Antonia Fraser
Book Description: This volume provides the essential history
of the Tudors up to the death of Elizabeth I, who kept power with a rare
skill and subtlety, and whose death led to the union of the crowns of England
and Scotland and the end of the Tudor line.
Paperback: 112 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.43 x
9.72 x 7.42
Book Publisher: University of California Press; ; (November
6, 2000)
ISBN: 0520228049
Women
According to Men
by Suzanne W. Hull
Publisher: Altamira Pr; (March 26, 1996)
Who's
Who in Tudor England: 1485-1603
by C. R. N. Routh, Peter Holmes
Book Description: Among the noted figures of the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries featured in this volume are Guy Fawkes, the Yorkshire
Protestant who joined the Spanish Army and converted to Catholicism, later
to return to become the prime mover in the Gunpowder Plot. Also making
an appearance is Nell Gwynne, the former orange seller who became a favored
mistress of Charles II; and Oliver Cromwell, the Lord Protector of England
and nemesis of the monarchy.
Publisher: Stackpole Books; (May 1, 2002)
Knives and Scabbards: Medieval Finds from Excavations in London
by J. Cowgill, et al
(Hardcover -- April 2001)
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A History of the Gunpowder Plot
by Philip Sidney
Published to mark the 300th anniversary of the November 5th, 1605 plot
to blow up the Houses of Parliament along with King James the First and
his entire court. The perpetrators, including Guy Fawkes (Guido), were
tried, tortured and executed as traitors - drawn, hung and quartered.
Db.
Paperback: 303 pages
Hartland Publications; ISBN: 0923309578; (April 30, 1998)
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The House of Tudor
by Alison Plowden
The Tudors ruled England for little more than a century, but very few
Royal Dynasties have made such an impact on history. In this personal rather
than political history of the Tudors, the author tells the story of this
astonishing family.
Hardcover: 288 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.97 x
9.93 x 7.13
Publisher: Sutton Publishing; ; Revised edition (January
1999)
ISBN: 075091890X
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Tudor and Jacobean Tournaments
by Alan R. Young
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