Elizabethan England (Summarized Edition)

Elizabethan England offers a panoramic, first-hand survey of the realm under Elizabeth I, from topography and parish governance to markets, diets, apparel, sports, and social ranks. In the humanist chorographical mode and in plain yet capacious prose, Harrison blends lists and anecdote to register enclosures, urban growth, and new wealth. First written as the "Description of England" for Holinshed...