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Valerie E. Chancellor.
Medieval and Tudor Britain.
Published Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1979 reprint (previously issued 1967).
Series: A History of Britain.
ISBN 0140803025.
Binding: paperback, perfect bound.
Printed in Hong Kong by Sheck Wah Tong Printing Press Ltd.
Size: 180×220×12mm.
Page count: 224pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair to good: this copy has some wear on its corners and edges; the spine is somewhat faded but is not creased from reading, and the text appears to be free of marking.

This item £5.00
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(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

Weight without packaging: 427g.

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School text aimed at secondary-level pupils.

Contents: Finding out about the middle ages; Arthur & coming of the Saxons; Augustine & coming of Christianity; Life in Saxon England; Alfred & the Vikings; William & the Norman conquest; Becket & struggle between church & state; Richard Lion-heart & 3rd crusade; An English traveller in the middle ages; Edward I & beginning of a united Britain; Life in medieval England; Joan of Arc & the 100 Years War; Wat Tyler & the Peasants’ Revolt; Wolsey & Cromwell; Henry VIII; Cranmer & Reformation in England; Elizabeth I; Life in Elizabethan England; Gerard & Wentworth — Catholic & Puritan in reign of Elizabeth; Hakluyt & beginnings of British empire. Each chapter is rounded off with short lists of dates to remember, things to do, and books to read.

Illustrations: monochrome, throughout
Maps & plans: 19

Notes: no
Tables: no
Genealogies: 3
Chronology: a few dates in each chapter
Glossary: no
Bibliography: a few references in each chapter
Index: yes

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