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The past is a foreign country - this is your guide.We think of Queen Elizabeth I as 'Gloriana': the most powerful English woman in history. 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 and William Shakespeare. 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. Applying the ground breaking approach he pioneered in his bestselling Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England the Elizabethan world unfolds around the reader.He shows a society making great discoveries and winning military victories and yet at the same time being troubled by its new-found awareness. It is a country in which life expectancy at birth is in the early thirties people still starve to death and Catholics are persecuted for their faith. Yet it produces some of the finest writing in the English language and some of the most magnificent architecture and sees Elizabeth's subjects settle in America and circumnavigate the globe. Welcome to a country that is in all its contradictions the very crucible of the modern world.Key Features:420 pagesPaperbackPublished in 2013

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