The Magic of Rogues: Necromancers in Early Tudor England (Klaassen Frank)(Paperback)

The Magic of Rogues: Necromancers in Early Tudor England (Klaassen Frank)(Paperback)

Examines legal documents and magic texts relevant to two cases where authorities in Tudor England confronted practicing magicians. Explores how magicians thought about the world, where they got their ideas, and how their magic was supposed to

Early Modern England 1485-1714: A Narrative History (Bucholz Robert)(Paperback)

The new, fully-updated edition of the popular introduction to the Tudor-Stuart period--offers fresh scholarship and improved readability. Early Modern England 1485-1714 is the market-leading introduction to the Tudor-Stuart period of English history. This accessible and engaging volume enables

The Tudor Reformation (Hayman Richard)(Paperback)

The Reformation transformed England forever. From peasants in the lanes and fields to the court of Henry VIII, no life was left untouched as the Roman Catholic Church was replaced as the centre of the nation's religious life. Emerging from a dense mesh of European ecclesiastical and political

Winter King - The Dawn of Tudor England (Penn Thomas)(Paperback / softback)

The Tudor Queens of England (Loades David)(Paperback)

From Elizabeth of York - wife of Henry VII, the first Tudor monarch - through to Elizabeth I, her grand-daughter and the last in the line, this book explores some of the most colourful and dramatic women in British history. Queen consorts were central to the Royal Court but their role has rarely

Visitor's Companion to Tudor England (Lipscomb Suzannah)(Paperback / softback)

Reveals the hidden secrets of palaces, castles, theatres and abbeys to uncover the stories of Tudor England. This book reveals the history of the Tudors and paints a vivid and captivating picture of what it would have been like to live in Tudor

Mary Tudor - The First Queen (Porter Linda)(Paperback / softback)

A groundbreaking new history of the first woman to rule England in her own

Merchant Adventurers - The Voyage of Discovery that Transformed Tudor England (Evans James)(Paperback / softback)

A Tudor voyage of exploration - an extraordinary story of daring, discovery, tragedy and pioneering

Sabriel: The Old Kingdom 2 (Nix Garth)(Paperback / softback)

The Old Kingdom is a place of free magic, necromancers and ancient spirits bound to elemental forces. Who will guard the living when the dead arise?Sabriel has spent most of her young life far away from the magical realm of the Old Kingdom, and the Dead that roam

To the Ends of the Earth (Golding William)(Paperback / softback)

Presents a sequence of sea novels set in the early nineteenth century, about a voyage from England to

In Pursuit of Civility - Manners and Civilization in Early Modern England (Thomas Keith)(Paperback / softback)

Green Darkness (Seton Anya)(Paperback / softback)

The classic historical saga of Tudor England, the brutal Reformation and its perilous legacy to a modern young woman, from the bestselling author of

The Quest of the Holy Grail (Anonymous)(Paperback)

Composed by an unknown author in early thirteenth-century France, The Quest of the Holy Grail is a fusion of Arthurian legend and Christian symbolism, reinterpreting ancient Celtic myth as a profound spiritual fable. It recounts the quest of the knights of Camelot - the simple Perceval, the

Fires of Faith: Catholic England Under Mary Tudor (Duffy Eamon)(Paperback)

The renowned author of The Stripping of the Altars takes a new and controversial look at the reign of England's 'Bloody Mary' The reign of Mary Tudor has been remembered as an era of sterile repression, when a reactionary monarch launched a doomed attempt to reimpose Catholicism on an unwilling

Death in the Clouds (Christie Agatha)(Paperback)

Hercule Poirot is travelling from France to England by plane. During the journey one of his fellow passengers is murdered - but which of the 12 people on the plane is guilty of the crime? What motive could they have for murdering an elderly lady? And, most curiously of all, why did nobody see a

The Commotion Time: Tudor Rebellion in the West, 1549 (Fox E. T.)(Paperback)

In 1549, two major rebellions and several minor uprising occurred spontaneously throughout England. In East Anglia, Robert Kett, aggrieved at the abuses of enclosure, laid siege to Norwich until defeated by Royal forces at the bloody battle of Dussindale. At the same time, thousands of commoners of

Things of Darkness: Economies of Race and Gender in Early Modern England (Hall Kim F.)(Paperback)

The Ethiope, the tawny Tartar, the woman blackamoore, and knotty Africanisms--allusions to blackness abound in Renaissance texts. Kim F. Hall's eagerly awaited book is the first to view these evocations of blackness in the contexts of sexual politics, imperialism, and slavery in early modern

Letters Written in France (Williams Helen Maria)(Paperback)

The first and most important of eight volumes chronicling the French Revolution to an England fearful of another civil war. The author's twenty-six letters recounting old regime tyranny and revolutionary events provide both an apology for the Revolution and a representation of it as sublime

Alehouses and Good Fellowship in Early Modern England (Hailwood Mark)(Paperback)

This book provides a history of the alehouse between the years 1550 and 1700, the period during which it first assumed its long celebrated role as the key site for public recreation in the villages and market towns of England. In the face of considerable animosity from Church and State, the patrons

Cranford (Gaskell Elizabeth Cleghorn)(Paperback)

A vivid and affectionate portrait of a provincial town in early Victorian England, Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford describes a community dominated by its independent and refined women. This edition includes two related short pieces by Gaskell, 'The Last Generation in England' and 'The Cage at

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Anonymous)(Paperback)

An early English poem of magic, chivalry and seduction Composed during the fourteenth century in the English Midlands, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight describes the events that follow when a mysterious green-coloured knight rides into King Arthur's Camelot in deep mid-winter. The mighty knight

Early Tudors: England 1485-1558 (Hudson David)(Paperback / softback)

This title investigates the history of Britain under the early Tudors from Henry VII to Mary. It gives students an insight into the nature, achievements and failures of the governments of the Tudor dynasty; the changing nature of English society at this time; and the ongoing historiographical

Tudor Housewife (Sim Alison)(Paperback / softback)

This book unveils the powerful position of ordinary women in Tudor society and provides a captivating insight into their

Apologia Pro Vita Sua (Newman John)(Paperback)

John Henry Newman, one of the towering figures of the early Victorian Church of England, caused shock and outrage in equal measure when he announced his espousal of Roman Catholicism in 1845. His Apologia, written nearly twenty years later in response to a scurrilous public attack by Charles