Eminent Elizabethans
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: usual aging - in good condition. Pages bright and clean.
A masterwork of biographical history, Eminent Elizabethans presents vivid portraits of four towering figures from one of England's most dramatic and consequential eras. A. L. Rowse, one of the twentieth century's foremost authorities on the Elizabethan age, chronicles the lives of Bess of Hardwick, Sir Walter Ralegh, the Earl of Essex, and Sir Christopher Hatton with the sharp, opinionated authority of a scholar who spent a lifetime immersed in the period. Written with wit and confidence, Rowse illuminates the ambitions, rivalries, and personal dramas that shaped the Elizabethan court, arguing that these individuals were as instrumental in defining their age as the queen herself. The prose is lively and assured, making complex historical personalities accessible without sacrificing intellectual depth, and each portrait uncovers the human forces that drove England's golden age of exploration, politics, and culture.
Author: A. L. Rowse
Format: Hardback
Published: 1983, The University of Georgia Press
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: usual aging - in good condition. Pages bright and clean.
A masterwork of biographical history, Eminent Elizabethans presents vivid portraits of four towering figures from one of England's most dramatic and consequential eras. A. L. Rowse, one of the twentieth century's foremost authorities on the Elizabethan age, chronicles the lives of Bess of Hardwick, Sir Walter Ralegh, the Earl of Essex, and Sir Christopher Hatton with the sharp, opinionated authority of a scholar who spent a lifetime immersed in the period. Written with wit and confidence, Rowse illuminates the ambitions, rivalries, and personal dramas that shaped the Elizabethan court, arguing that these individuals were as instrumental in defining their age as the queen herself. The prose is lively and assured, making complex historical personalities accessible without sacrificing intellectual depth, and each portrait uncovers the human forces that drove England's golden age of exploration, politics, and culture.