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ISBN: 9780747812142 - The Tudor Garden The Tudor Garden
Twigs Way

ISBN10: 0747812144  ISBN13: 9780747812142
Publisher: Shire Publications Ltd
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 10 Jun 2013
Artificiality was the fashion of the age, with clipped and twining plants vying for space with brightly painted woodwork and patterned beds. Renaissance discoveries reared their heads in royal gardens, where gilded and painted heraldic figures... More

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ISBN: 9781137303097 - The Emblematic Queen The Emblematic Queen
Debra Barrett-Graves

ISBN10: 1137303093  ISBN13: 9781137303097
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 08 May 2013
This study examines representations of early modern female consorts and regnants via extra-literary emblematics such as paintings, jewelry, miniature portraits, carvings, placards, masques, funerary monuments, and imprese. Our interdisciplinary... More

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ISBN: 9780192840905 - The Children of Henry VIII Bestseller The Children of Henry VIII
John Guy

ISBN10: 0192840908  ISBN13: 9780192840905
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 25 Apr 2013
The fascinating family drama of Henry VIII and his four children, re-created from the original sources by best-selling Tudor historian John Guy Behind the facade of politics and pageantry at the Tudor court, there was a family drama. More

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ISBN: 9781137272010 - The Name of a Queen The Name of a Queen
Charles Beem, Dennis Moore

ISBN10: 1137272015  ISBN13: 9781137272010
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 18 Apr 2013
A critical edition of William Fleetwood's landmark Itinerarium ad Windsor. Why should a woman be allowed to rule with the same powers as a king? Readers may be surprised to discover that the man who asks this controversial question is none other... More

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ISBN: 9781908402516 - Historical Map of Tudor London, C.1520 Historical Map of Tudor London, C.1520
Historic Towns Trust

ISBN10: 1908402512  ISBN13: 9781908402516
Publisher: Osprey Publishing Old House Books
Format: Sheet Map
Publication date: 10 Apr 2013
Deals with the capital city during the reign of Henry VIII around 1520, showing streets, lanes, churches, great houses, monasteries and public buildings. This map reveals medieval London at its impressive, before the city was overwhelmed by a... More

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ISBN: 9780674072978 - The Pulpit and the Press in Reformation Italy The Pulpit and the Press in Reformation Italy
Emily Michelson

ISBN10: 0674072979  ISBN13: 9780674072978
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 09 Apr 2013
Italian sermons tell a story of the Reformation that credits preachers with using the pulpit, pen, and printing press to keep Italy Catholic when the region's violent religious wars made the future uncertain, and with fashioning a post... More

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ISBN: 9781137289766 - Calamities and the Economy in Renaissance Italy Calamities and the Economy in Renaissance Italy
Guido Alfani

ISBN10: 1137289767  ISBN13: 9781137289766
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 28 Mar 2013
Italy faced a number of catastrophes in the long sixteenth century. This economic and demographic history follows the consequences of these catastrophes - the action of the Horsemen of the Apocalypse - War, Famine and Plague, all followed by Death. More

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ISBN: 9780300194098 - The Arch Conjuror of England Bestseller The Arch Conjuror of England
Glyn Parry

ISBN10: 0300194099  ISBN13: 9780300194098
Publisher: Yale University Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 26 Mar 2013
Outlandish alchemist and magician, political intelligencer, apocalyptic prophet, and converser with angels, John Dee (1527 - 1609) was one of the most colourful and controversial figures of the Tudor world. In this book, the author explores Dee's... More

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ISBN: 9780300194166 - Mary I Bestseller Mary I
John Edwards

ISBN10: 0300194161  ISBN13: 9780300194166
Publisher: Yale University Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 26 Mar 2013
Tells the lifestory of Mary I - daughter of Henry VIII and his Spanish wife, Catherine of Aragon - is often distilled to a few dramatic episodes: her victory over the attempted coup by Lady Jane Grey, the imprisonment of her half-sister Elizabeth... More

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ISBN: 9781607321941 - Came Men on Horses Came Men on Horses
Stan Hoig

ISBN10: 1607321947  ISBN13: 9781607321941
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 26 Mar 2013
Guided by myths of golden cities and worldly rewards, policy-makers, conquistador leaders, and expeditionary aspirants alike came to the new world in the sixteenth century and left it a changed land. 'Came Men on Horses' follows two conquistadors... More