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Author/Creator:Ackroyd, Peter, 1949-
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Title:Tudors : the history of England from Henry VIII to Elizabeth I / Peter Ackroyd.
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ISBN:9781250003621 (hbk.)
1250003628 (hbk.)
9781250037596 (ebk.)
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Edition:First U.S. edition.
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Publication:New York : Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2013.
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Copyright notice date: ©2012.
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Physical Description:x, 507 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), color map ; 25 cm
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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.
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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.
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BibliographyIncludes bibliographical references (pages 473-481) and index.
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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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Subjects:Tudor, House of.
Great Britain--History--Tudors, 1485-1603.
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Also listed under:Ackroyd, Peter, 1949- History of England.
Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/11751977