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Historical Dictionary of the Elizabethan World: Britain, Ireland, Europe, and America Paperback – January 1, 2002
- Print length392 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherCheckmark Books
- Publication dateJanuary 1, 2002
- Dimensions7.25 x 1 x 10 inches
- ISBN-100816046573
- ISBN-13978-0816046577
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- Publisher : Checkmark Books; New Ed edition (January 1, 2002)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 392 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0816046573
- ISBN-13 : 978-0816046577
- Item Weight : 1.65 pounds
- Dimensions : 7.25 x 1 x 10 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #5,324,106 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #5,544 in History Encyclopedias
- #31,557 in Great Britain History (Books)
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- Reviewed in the United States on July 2, 2024I haven't been in school for a very long time, I came across this book because I still have all of my old Romeo and Juliet and all those mushy books. Great for readers..
- Reviewed in the United States on October 11, 2017Thank you!
- Reviewed in the United States on February 19, 2015Interesting review
- Reviewed in the United States on August 30, 2002This book is fun to read, or to just pull off the shelf when something requires looking up. The scope of the topics is quite helpful. There are entries on Queen Elizabeth herself, subjects like her portraiture, various players at court, important families like the Howards, Dudleys and Seymours, as well as entries on political, cultural and religious issues. Where else can you look up why transubstantion was so important to the religious squabbles of the time, and learn about the sisters of William Cecil's wife. (The three women were the most educated in England.) The book also conveys a great deal of information visually with particulary explanatory maps of Elizabethan England (find out how far it is from Sussex to Warwick to Northumberland, for example,) and Elizabethan London (find out how far it was from Whitehall to the Globe Theater,) impressive pictures of characters like Essex, Nicholas Bacon and Throckmorton, and tables which show who held which post in privy council when (as well as explanations of what those posts meant.) The genealogical charts, of the Tudors, Stuarts, Greys, Howards, Valois and Hapsburg cannot fail to interest. (One error I caught though: the French King Henry IV's first wife, Margaux, was not the mother of Louis XIII, but that's not so relevant for the Elizabethan period.) There are also entries and illustrations of royal castles and properties of the time, as well as appendixes of Tudor related fiction, films and websites. There's also a heck of a bibliography. All in all a handy dandy reference book, visually appealing and informative, and entertaining taboot.
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- Dr Stuart Brian JenningsReviewed in the United Kingdom on December 30, 2019
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Purchase
Prompt delivery of an excellent resource book