The England of Elizabeth: The Structure of Society - Softcover

Rowe, Dr. Alfred Lestie

 
9780299077242: The England of Elizabeth: The Structure of Society

Synopsis

The upheaval of the Reformation and the social mobility of the age are the dominant themes of a scholarly interpretation of Elizabethan society

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Review

'[Rowse] was an extraordinary pioneer.' - David Starkey

'Rowse's study is by far the best of Elizabethan Society.' - New Statesman

'The most attractive and the greatest age of England portrayed in detail as it actually was.' - Sunday Times
'I am above all glad that the most attractive and the greatest age of England should be portrayed in detail as it actually was, with shrewd but sympathetic comment.' - G.M. Trevelyan, Sunday Times

'Mr Rowses's study is by far the best, the most scholarly account, of Elizabethan Society.' - H.R. Trevor-Roper, New Statesman

About the Author

A.L. ROWSE was Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford and Fellow of the British Academy. He wrote over 50 books including Tudor Cornwall, The Spirit of English History, Bosworth Field and the War of the Rose, Cornishman at Oxford and Homosexuals in History as well as a biography of Shakespeare.

CHRISTOPHER HAIGH is a Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Oxford. He is the author of many books including Elizabeth I and English Reformations: Religion, Politics and Society Under the Tudors.

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