The horizon book of the Elizabethan world
Elizabethan World
Lacey Baldwin Smith; Edited by Norman Kotker
- London Paul Hamlyn ltd. 1967
- 416 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), portraits (some color) 32 cm
- Horizon Books .
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.