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The horizon book of the Elizabethan world

by Smith, Lacey Baldwin frey50
, Elizabethan World
Additional authors: Ed. -- Kotker, Norman
Series: Horizon Books Published by : Paul Hamlyn ltd. (London) , 1967 Physical details: 416 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), portraits (some color) 32 cm
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Item type Current location Call number Status Date due Barcode
900 - 999 909.5 Smi (Browse shelf) Available 43103

Includes index

The old order passes -- A world reborn: a picture portfolio -- Sin and schism -- The king's pleasure: a picture portfolio -- The calm and quiet season -- Gloriana: a picture portfolio -- Rage in heaven -- Portrait of an age: an anthology -- The realm of England: a picture portfolio -- The ordeal of France -- Empires of the east: a picture portfolio -- God's obvious design -- The Spanish empire: a picture portfolio -- Plot and counterplot -- The noble voice: an anthology -- The world of London: a picture portfolio -- The great enterprise -- The Elizabethan theatre: a picture portfolio -- A decade of heroes -- The world emcompassed: an anthology -- Adventures across the sea: a picture portfolio -- New horizons -- Science and superstition -- End of an era -- A changing nation: a picture portfolio.

Describes the colorful and adventurous 16th century when the world swung suddenly from the medieval to the modern age.