Historical Dictionary of the Elizabethan World: Britain, Ireland, Europe and America

This volume has all the attributes of a fine book of reference. It begins with a guide to selected topics such as exploration, law and parliament, royal residences, and trade and industry, and under each of these headings the reader will find an alphabetical list of the entries to be found in the main body of the work. This is a great time‐saver for those who are specialising on individual subjects. Following this there is a brief preface, not to be ignored, and then a chronology of the most important events which occurred between 1485 and 1603. This time‐scale is...