Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.Ģ-10 days after all items have arrived in the warehouse Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. It is a country in which life expectatncy at birth is in the He shows a society making great discoveries and winning military victories and yet at the same time being troubled by its new-found awareness. Applying the groundbreaking approach he pioneered in his bestselling Time Traveller s Guide to Medieval England, the Elizabethan world unfolds around the reader. But what was it actually like to live in Elizabethan England? If you could travel to the past and walk the streets of London in the 1590s, where would you stay? What would you eat? What would you wear? Would you really have a sense of it being a glorious age? And if so, how would that glory sit alongside the vagrants, diseases, violence, sexism and famine of the time? In this book Ian Mortimer answers the key questions that a prospective traveller to late sixteenth-century England would ask. We think of her reign (1558-1603) as a golden age of maritime heroes, like Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Richard Grenville and Sir Francis Drake, and of great writers, such as Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson and William Shakespeare. "We think of Queen Elizabeth I as Gloriana - the most powerful English woman in history.
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