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to Elizabethan England The past is a foreign country - this is
your guide. We think of Queen Elizabeth I's reign (1558-1603) as
a golden age. But what was it actually like to live in
Elizabethan England? If you could travel to the past and walk
the streets of London in the 1590s, where would you stay? What
would you eat? What would you wear? Would you really have a
sense of it being a glorious age? And if so, how would that
glory sit alongside the vagrants, diseases, violence, sexism and
famine of the time? In this book Ian Mortimer reveals a country
in which life expectancy is in the early thirties, people still
starve to death and Catholics are persecuted for their faith.
Yet it produces some of the finest writing in the English
language, some of the most magnificent architecture, and sees
Elizabeth's subjects settle in America and circumnavigate the
globe. Welcome to a country tha