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5 days ago · Elizabethan Age, in British history, the time period (1558–1603) during which Queen Elizabeth I ruled England. Popularly referred to as a “golden age,” it was a span of time characterized by relative peace and prosperity and by a flowering of artistic, literary, and intellectual culture to such a.
2 days ago · The Elizabethan poet Edmund Spenser, who served as a secretary in the English administration in Ireland, used two, and possibly three, distinct hands in his official and personal business.
2 days ago · So too would have been the cultural explosion that produced William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, Edmund Spenser, Francis Bacon, and John Donne.
1 day ago · Rome, North Africa, and the Olive Trade . In the Mediterranean world of 200-40 B.C, olives and olive products were of primary importance for everything from food to sheep dip. As Rome’s population grew, the agricultural potential of Italy was inadequate to provide sufficient supplies of these
2 days ago · The last of the family, an engineer, died in 1865, in the West Indies. In the reign of Richard II. the manor of Shoreditch was granted to Edmund, Duke of York, and his son, the Earl of Rutland, which accounts for the fact that St. Leonard's Church, Shoreditch, is full of the Manners family.
13 hours ago · Personal Recollections opens with two claims about Joan made by Jean Francois Alden, the translator of de Conte’s memoirs. First, that Joan possessed a character so spotless, so pure, so selfless that she could be measured against the standards of any day and still be found “flawless” and “ideally perfect” (vii). 1 Second, he judges that her military and political accomplishments are ...
4 days ago · St Paul's: The churchyard. Old and New London: Volume 1. Originally published by Cassell, Petter & Galpin, London, 1878. This free content was digitised by double rekeying. Public Domain. Citation: Walter Thornbury, 'St Paul's: The churchyard', in Old and New London: Volume 1 ( London, 1878), British History Online https://www.british-history ...
