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"A contribution to social history, The Elizabethan Renaissance portrays the life of each class from the Court downwards - nobles, gentry, the middle class, country folk - and their mentality, conscious or unconscious, to which their way of life gave rise, with its folklore and beliefs, customs and sport."--Jacket.

"Elizabeth Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury (c. 1521[1]? 13 February 1608), known as Bess of Hardwick, was the daughter of John Hardwick, of Derbyshire and Elizabeth Leeke, daughter of Thomas Leeke and Margaret Fox. She was married four times, firstly to Robert Barlow, who died in his teens; secondly to the courtier Sir William Cavendish; thirdly to Sir William St Loe; and lastly to George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury, sometime keeper to the captive...

Paints a vivid picture of what life was like during the time of Henry VIII by visiting more than fifty Tudor palaces, theaters, and abbeys, including Anne Boleyn's childhood home and the castle where Mary Queen of Scots was imprisoned.

"Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, KG (3 February 1478? 17 May 1521) was an English nobleman. He was the son of Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, and Katherine Woodville, whose sister, Queen Elizabeth Woodville, was the wife of King Edward IV. He was convicted of treason, and executed on 17 May 1521"--Wikipedia.

From childbirth and baptism through to courtship, weddings, and funerals, every stage in the lifecycle of Tudor and Stuart England was accompanied by ritual. Even under the Protestantism of the reformed Church, the spiritual and social dramas of birth, marriage, and death were graced with elaborate ceremony. Powerful and controversial protocols were in operation, shaped and altered by the influences of the Reformation, the Revolution, and the Restoration....