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Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
A thrilling account of the brutal decades-long battle between Christendom and Islam for the soul of Europe. This struggle's brutal climax came between 1565 and 1571, seven years that witnessed a fight to the finish decided in a series of bloody set pieces: the epic siege of Malta, in which a tiny band of Christian defenders defied the might of the Ottoman army; the savage battle for Cyprus; and the apocalyptic last-ditch defense of southern Europe...
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Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The saga now continues with Follett's magnificent new epic, A Column of Fire. In 1558, the ancient stones of Kingsbridge Cathedral look down on a city torn apart by religious conflict. As power in England shifts precariously between Catholics and Protestants, royalty and commoners clash, testing friendship, loyalty, and love. Ned Willard wants nothing more than to marry Margery Fitzgerald. But when the lovers find themselves on opposing sides of the...
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Language
English
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Description
As remarkable as Columbus and the conquistador expeditions but far more wide-ranging, the dynamic burst of Portuguese voyaging at the start of the sixteenth century is one of the tipping points of world history : the moment that the world went global. Within a short time span a tiny country, whose population did not exceed a million, created a maritime empire that stretched from Brazil to Nagasaki. Conquerors tells the almost forgotten story of how...
Author
Publisher
Smithsonian books
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
"An in-depth technical look at the weaponry of the age and the tactical drills that honed the skills of Renaissance soldiers. The new arms transformed society as cities were built and rebuilt to limit the effects of bombardment by cannon. Discusses the epic wars abroad between Western Christians and the Muslim Turks and the civil strife at home between despotic reulers and rebellious forces as modern artillery and portable firearms became the signature...
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
From the publisher. Acclaimed historian G. J. Meyer provides a fresh look at the fabled Tudor dynasty -- and some of the most enigmatic figures ever to rule a country. In 1485, Henry Tudor, whose claim to the English throne was so weak as to be almost laughable, nevertheless sailed from France with a ragtag army to take the crown from the family that had ruled England for almost four centuries. Fifty years later, his son, Henry VIII, aimed to seize...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A humorous look at the state of illness and medicine in Tudor England.
This lively, interactive series will enthrall young and reluctant readers by making them part of the story, inviting them to become the main character and revel in the gory, dark, horrific side of life throughout important eras in history. --Publisher's description.
10) Conquistadors
Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Following in the footsteps of the Spanish adventurers, filmmaker Wood retraces the path of the conquistadors from Amazonia to Lake Titicaca, and from the deserts of North Mexico to the heights of Machu Picchu. As he travels the same routes as Hernan Cortés, and Francisco and Gonzalo Pizarro, Wood describes the events that accompanied the epic sixteenth-century Spanish conquest of the Aztec and Inca empires. He also follows parts of Orellana's extraordinary...
11) The Armada
Author
Language
English
Description
Describes the English defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588 in the framework of European history. Also covers diplomacy, strategy, and politics.
Author
Series
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
In this Modern Library Chronicle, Kermode uses the context of the Elizabethan Era to link each of Shakespeare's plays to their probable years of creation. By portraying the bard's England in terms of its society, economy, and arts, Kermode provides an invaluable guide to understanding Shakespeare's works.
Publisher
Time-Life Books
Pub. Date
1998.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Photographs, illustrations, and text provide information about life in England before and during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, covering the years between 1533 and 1603, discussing the Queen's court, conditions in London, foreign affairs, and other topics.
Author
Series
Publisher
Chelsea House
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Provides background information on the theater world during Shakespeare's lifetime, including the major writers of the time period, the system of patronage that supported writers, and information on the Globe and other London theaters.
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Sixteenth-century Europe saw an explosion of female rule. Large swathes of the continent were under the firm hand of a dozen reigning women as queens, regents, mothers, wives, or counselors. From Isabella of Castile, her daughter Katherine of Aragon, and her granddaughter Mary Tudor, to Catherine de Medici, Anne Boleyn, and Elizabeth Tudor; from England and France to the Netherlands, and across the Holy Roman Empire, these women wielded enormous...
16) In search of a kingdom: Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the perilous birth of the British Empire
Author
Publisher
Custom House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"An exploration narrative of the highest order: the bestselling author of Over the Edge of the World brings alive the extraordinary life and adventures of Sir Francis Drake, whose mastery of the seas during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I changed the course of history-as a pirate raiding Spanish galleons, as the first explorer to successfully circumnavigate the globe, and as a naval hero who defeated the Spanish Armada and reshaped the global order"--...
Author
Publisher
Jonathan Cape
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Christmas in Tudor times was a period of feasting, revelry and merrymaking 'to drive the cold winter away?. A carnival atmosphere presided at court, with a twelve-day-long festival of entertainments, pageants, theatre productions and 'disguisings?, when even the king and queen dressed up in costume to fool their courtiers. Throughout the festive season, all ranks of subjects were freed for a short time from everyday cares to indulge in eating, drinking,...
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Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Drawing on her own adventures living in re-created Tudor conditions, Goodman serves as our ... guide to sixteenth-century living. Proceeding from daybreak to bedtime, this ... illustrative work celebrates the ordinary lives of those who labored through the era. From sounding the hue and cry to alert a village to danger to malting grain for homemade ale, from the gruesome sport of bear-baiting cuckolding and cross-dressing--the madcap habits and...
19) The Lady in Blue
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Language
English
Formats
Description
In Los Angeles, Jennifer Narody is having a series of disturbing dreams involving eerie images of a lady in blue. She doesn't know that this same spirit appeared to leaders of the Jumano Native American tribe in New Mexico 362 years earlier, linked to a Spanish nun who had the power to be in two places simultaneously. Meanwhile, journalist Carlos Albert stumbles upon a nearly forgotten seventeenth-century convent in Spain founded by this same legendary...
Author
Series
Bloomsbury sigma volume 51
Publisher
Bloomsbury Sigma
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"William Shakespeare found dozens of different ways to kill off his characters, and audiences today still enjoy the same reactions- shock, sadness, fear- that they did more than 400 years ago when these plays were first performed. But how realistic are these deaths, and did Shakespeare have the knowledge to back them up? In the Bard's day death was a part of everyday life. Plague, pestilence and public executions were a common occurrence, and the...