Meyer's fresh storytelling ability breathes new life into the history of the Tudor family and Tudor England's precarious place in world politics, the critical role religion played in government, and the blossoming of English theater and literature.
"Filling a gap in the study of early modern literature, Massimiliano Morini here exhaustively examines the aims, strategies, practice and theoretical ideas of the sixteenth-century translator. Morini analyzes early modern English translations of works by French and Italian essay…
"Filling a gap in the study of early modern literature, Massimiliano Morini here exhaustively examines the aims, strategies, practice and theoretical ideas of the sixteenth-century translator. Morini analyzes early modern English translations of works by French and Italian essay…
They were present at some of the defining moment of the Tudor age. They were christened, married and buried by the Church. And their stories have been untold for many years. Kaufman has unearthed the remarkable stories of Africans who lived free in Tudor ENgland, and in doing so…
Scholarly opinion generally holds that the seventeenth or even the eighteenth century gave birth to the science of political economy, often associated with the transition from "commercial" to "industrial" capitalism. Not so, claims Neal Wood, who traces the origins of political …
The Tudor period has long gripped our imaginations. Because we have consumed so many costume dramas on TV and film, read so many histories, factual or romanticized, we think we know how this society operated. We know they 'did'romance but how did they do sex?In this affectionate…
In this new study of Tudor international relations, the editors have assembled a team of scholars who bring fresh developments in cultural, gender and institutional history to bear upon the question of England's place in Europe and beyond between 1485 and 1603.