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This mighty tome on #EnglishHistory by Susan Doran traces the dynastic change from #QueenElizabeth to #KingJames - from #Tudor to #Stuart in #RenaissanceEngland - on over 600 page, citing sources from #Literature to #MaterialCulture
Did you know about the house in York which was for A brief time the home of Henry VIII and his fifth wife, Katherine Howard?
Come along to King's Manor to find out more!
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A bheil fhios agaibh gu bheil taigh ann an Eabhraig, far an do dh'fhuirich Eanraig VIII Shasainn agus a chòigeamh bean, Katherine Howard?
Thigibh gu Taigh-maineir an Rìgh gus tuilleadh fhaighinn a-mach!
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‘Religion and the Decline of Magic’ by Keith Thomas is a classic, beautifully written study of magical belief in Renaissance England. Worth reading on its own merits, but hugely valuable to me as a fantasy worldbuilder.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6621365952
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4/5: I read this book on Hilary Mantel's recommendation—by which I mean that she wrote about it, in one of the essays collected in A memoir of my former self. It should be obvious why it was of interest to her, as Keith Thomas's Religion and the decline of magic is a historical account of magical beliefs in the English Renaissance, the place and time in which Mantel's best known work is set. Her Cromwell trilogy is singularly well-crafted, in the way that it gives contemporary readers the sense that they are looking out at the world through the eyes of a man native to Tudor England. Understandin...
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