A collection of forty essays dealing with a critical period of English history. The period covered is an exceptionally long one, beginning with medieval England tired from the Wars of the Roses and established in peace with the victory of Henry VII, and ending at least with Elizabeth's death. It lasts from 1485 to 1603, and is carried beyond that date, almost into parliamentary England, by the later lives of Raleigh, Bacon, and Ben Jonson. Five reigns show the rise and extinguishment in death of a great dynasty.
A collection of forty essays dealing with a critical period of English history. The period covered is an exceptionally long one, beginning with medieval England tired from the Wars of the Roses and established in peace with the victory of Henry VII, and ending at least with Elizabeth's death. It lasts from 1485 to 1603, and is carried beyond that date, almost into parliamentary England, by the later lives of Raleigh, Bacon, and Ben Jonson. Five reigns show the rise and extinguishment in death of a great dynasty.