Author: Lauren Johnson
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1681775913
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 186
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England, 1509. Henry VII, the first Tudor monarch, is dead; his successor, the seventeen-year-old Henry VIII, offers hope of renewal and reconciliation after the corruption and repression of the last years of his father's reign.The kingdom Henry inherits is not the familiar Tudor England of Protestantism and playwrights. It is still more than two decades away from the English Reformation, and ancient traditions persist: boy bishops, pilgrimages, Corpus Christi pageants, the jewel-decked shrine at Canterbury. So Great a Prince offers a fascinating portrait of a country at a crossroads between two powerful monarchs and between the worlds of the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Historian Lauren Johnson tells the story of 1509 not just from the perspective of the young king and his court, but from the point of view of merchants, ploughmen, apprentices, laundresses, and foreign workers. She looks at these early Tudor lives through the rhythms of annual rituals, juxtaposing political events in Westminster and the palaces of southeast England with the religious, agrarian, and social events that punctuated the lives of the people of young Henry VIII's England.
Author: Samuel Eliot Morison
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 786
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Emphasizes the discoveries and explorations of Columbus, Magellan and Drake during the period.
Author: Ingeborg Marshall
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773517745
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 702
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Marshall (honorary research associate with the Institute of Social and Economic Research at Memorial U., Canada) documents the history of Newfoundland's indigenous Beothuk people, from their first encounter with Europeans in the 1500s to their demise in 1829 with the death of Shanawdithit, the last survivor. The second part provides a comprehensive ethnographic review of the Beothuk. Ample bandw illustrations with a few in color. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: William Moss
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351193333
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 427
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"This volume is the result of collaboration between SPMA and the Association des archeologues du Quebec (AAQ); its guest editor is William Moss, Chief Archaeologist for the City of Quebec. The publication has arisen from the celebration of the 400th anniversary of the city's founding by Samuel de Champlain in 1608, an occasion which gave momentum to a number of important archaeological projects in the city and surrounding region, and provided an excellent opportunity to present their results. It contains sixteen papers, all translated from French, the language of Quebec City. They include accounts of exciting discoveries relating to the port, the great chateau on the crag above it, the defences, and the newly discovered remains of the short-lived colony of the 1540s. The papers underline Quebec's status as one of the leading centres of urban research in North America. The volume provides the only modern overview of archaeological work in the city in the English language."
Author: Mary Beth Norton
Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 552
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Author: Mary Beth Norton
Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 600
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Covering US history to 1877, this first volume features a strong social and thematic narrative. The authors weave the rich fabric of social history - the experience of ordinary men, women and children - into the political, diplomatic and economic history. Ancillary package available upon adoption.
Author: Thomas Brady
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004391657
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 735
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The Handbook of European History 1400-1600 brings together the best scholarship into an array of topical chapters that present current knowledge and thinking in ways useful to the specialist and accessible to students and to the educated non-specialist. Forty-one leading scholars in this field of history present the state of knowledge about the grand themes, main controversies and fruitful directions for research of European history in this era. Volume 1 (Structures and Assertions) described the people, lands, religions and political structures which define the setting for this historical period. Volume 2 (Visions, Programs, Outcomes) covers the early stages of the process by which newly established confessional structures began to work their way among the populace.
Author: William Wilson Hunter
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 796
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Author: Birmingham Free Libraries
Publisher:
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 396
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Author: Mary Beth Norton
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 564
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