by Jasper Ridley · Avalon Publishing Group · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781841194714
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«The Tudor Age» is Jasper Ridley's historical essay in paperback (368 pages, in English).
It covers the history of England from the arrival of Henry Tudor in 1485 to the death of Elizabeth I in 1603. It describes the expanding London and courtly life, with costumes, gastronomy, travel, medicine and festivities, against the harshness of the peasantry, bad roads, the persecution of heretics and traitors, and the scourge of the plague.
The work was originally published in 1988; this English edition is from 2002 and is part of the Brief Histories series.
A popular work for general readers interested in the history of England and the Tudor period.
Jasper Godwin Ridley, FRSL was a British writer, known for historical biographies. He received the 1970 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his biography of Lord Palmerston.
