Bibliograph

Tudors, the history of England from Henry VIII to Elizabeth I, Peter Ackroyd

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Tudors, the history of England from Henry VIII to Elizabeth I, Peter Ackroyd

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 473-481) and index

Illustrations

illustrationsplates

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Tudors

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

852031326

Responsibility statement

Peter Ackroyd

Series statement

History of England, [2]

Sub title

the history of England from Henry VIII to Elizabeth I

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

Table Of 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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History of England from Henry VIII to Elizabeth I

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