and William Lambarde (1536-1601), Nowell's protégé and eventually the first editor of the Old English Laws, are key figures in Elizabethan historical discourses and in its political and literary ...

Printing is one of three things identified by the great English philosopher Francis Bacon, as making the Elizabethan age so different from what went earlier.' DR IAN MORTIMER:'The other two are ...

In this study of privateering during the Elizabethan war with Spain, which was originally published in 1966, Dr Andrews shows that it was closely connected with trade, in particular having a ...

Half the entire Elizabethan population is under the age ... This is a major change and has to count as one of the turning points in English social history. From now on, helping the poor isn ...

Today that long week of transition comes to an end. In the earliest years of her reign, a new Elizabethan Age was proclaimed by some. Such was the excitement over the young queen, the marvels of ...