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Contents

• Henry VIII and His Wives
• Anne Boleyn (of course, she gets her own category on this website.)
• Queen Elizabeth I
• Everyday Tudor Life
• Fast, Food and Famine
• Wine & Beer
• Costume and Dress
• Arms and Armor
• Armada and Maritime
• For Kids
• Shakespeare and Drama
• Art
• Stained Glass
• Royal Pleasures and Pastimes
• Music
• Medicine
• Other Tudor Players
• Castles and Such
• Pre Tudor Times
• General History
• Fiction

"In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others"—Sir Richard Steele

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Henry VIII and His Wives

• Six Wives of Henry VIII Alison Weir
• Henry VIII and His Queens. David Loades
• Her Majesty; The Romance of the Queens of England, 1066-1910 (Essay Index Reprint Series) Elise Thornton Cook.
• Great Harry – Carrolly Erickson
• Henry VIII: Images of a Tudor King. Christopher Lloyd.
• Thorns and Thistles : Diplomacy Between Henry VIII and James V, 1528-1542. C Patrick Hotle
• The Children of Henry VIII. Alison Weir.
• Catherine of Aragon-coming in 1999 from Garrett Mattingly
• Jane Seymour (Out of Print) Frances Betty Clark
• Anne of Cleves (Out Of Stock) Mary Saaler.
• The Rose Without a Thorn (out of print) Jean Plaidy
• Katherine Parr - Anthony K Martienssen
  

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Anne Boleyn

• Eric Ives Anne Boleyn—Currently out of print. Even those who have little interest in the story of the second wife of Henry VIII could be attracted by Mr. Ives’ clear writing style, wit and "proper historical scepticism". To those with a keener interest, this book is as irresistible as Anne herself. With much of the book based on original research, the text offers new and absorbing insights into a complex person and of life at court under Henry VIII.  For the most part, Mr. Ives maintains a proper distance from his subject, but from time to time, he opens his cloak of objectivity to expose the admirer beneath.  If you are also an admirer of glimpses of court life, both in France and England, then you should order this book.
• Brief Gaudy Hour -- Margaret Barnes
• Anne Boleyn-Norah Lofts. Currently out of print..The book is heavily dependent on secondary sources, with no bibliography. (At least, none in my copy).
• The Rise and Fall of Anne Boleyn : Family Politics at the Court of Henry VIII. Retha M Warnicke
• Mistress Anne. Carolly Erickson (NOT YET RELEASED)

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Queen Elizabeth I

• A pithie exhortation to Her Maiestie for establishing her svccessor to the crowne Wherevnto is added a discovrse containing the authors opinion of the true and lavvfull successor to Her Maiestie
  Peter Wentworth
• Englands Elizabeth: her life and trovbles, during her minoritie, from the cradle to the crowne Historically laid open and interwouen with such eminent passages of state, as happened vnder the reigne of Henry the Eight, Edvvard the Sixt, Q. Mary; all of them aptly introducing to the present relation
  Thomas Heywood. (Currently out of print)
• Elizabeth and Essex: A Tragic History
• Elizabeth I- The Shrewdness of Virtue. Jasper Ridley
• Monarchy and Matrimony : The Courtships of Elizabeth I. Susan Doran
• The Word of a Prince : A Life of Elizabeth I from Contemporary Documents. Maria Perry
• Elizabeth I : The Competition for Representation. Susan Frye
• Public and Private Worlds of Elizabeth I. Susan Watkins

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Everyday Tudor Life

• The Writer's Guide to Everyday Life in Renaissance England : From 1485-1649 Kathy Lynn Emerson. If your interest in the Renaissance centers on 16^th century England, then this book’s for you. With chapters arranged by broad subjects, such as Everyday Life, Government and War, and Society, it’s easy to locate topics. If you are looking for a quick reference tool specific to the English Renaissance, this book belongs in your collection.Visit Ms Emerson's website for the latest updates on her work.
• Wives and Daughters, the Women of the Sixteenth Century. Kathy Lynn Emerson
• The Description of England : The Classic Contemporary Account of Tudor Social Life-William Harrison If you crave realism in your Renaissance readings, you can not do any better than Harrison’s book. An actual 1577 account.

• Medieval Life Illustrations (Dover Pictorial Archive Series) Carol Belanger Grafton

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• Birth of the Elizabethan Age: England in the 1560s. Norman Jones

• England Under the Tudors. Geoffrey Elton
• A History of the Modern British Isles: 1529-1603. Mark Nicholls (Not Yet Published)
• Everyday Life Through the Ages. Michael Worth Davidson (ed.)
• A Medieval Family : The Pastons of Fifteenth-Century England. Frances Gies and Joseph Gies. Joseph and Frances Gies have been writing books about medieval history for thirty years. Together and separately they are the authors of more then twenty books, including Life in a Medieval City, Life in a Medieval Castle, Life in a Medieval Village, and Cathedral, Forge, and Waterwheel: Technology and Invention on the Middle Ages. They live near Ann Arbor, Michigan.
• Life in a Medieval City. Joseph and Frances Gies
• Life in a Medieval Castle. Joseph and Frances Gies
• Life in a Medieval Village. Joseph and Frances Gies
• Daily Life in Elizabethan England. Jeffrey Singman
• Religion and the Decline of Magic. Keith Thomas
• Tudor Rebellions. A Fletcher
• Ireland in the Age of the Tudors, 1447-1603 : English Expansion and the End of Gaelic Rule (Longman History of Ireland) Coming soon
• This Realm of England 1399-1688. Lacey Baldwin Smith
• Birth, Marriage, and Death : Ritual, Religion, and the Life-Cycle in Tudor and Stuart England David Cressy
• Untam’d Desire: Sex in Elizabethan England. Alan Haynes.
• Uppity Women of Medieval Times. Vicki Leon
• Constructing Medieval Furniture: Plans and Instructions with Historical Notes. Daniel Diehl.
• England and Europe in the Sixteenth Century. Susan Doran. (COMING SOON)
• Europe and England in the Sixteenth Century. T. A. Morris
• The Tudor Age. Jasper Ridley
• Gold & Spices-The Rise of Commerce in the Middle Ages. Jean Favier, translated by Caroline Higgitt.
• The Canting Crew, London’s Criminal Underworld.
• Trade and Industry in Tudor and Stuart England. Sybil M. Jack
• English Handwriting, 1400-1650 : An Introductory Manual. Jean F Preston
• The Rise and Fall of Merry England : The Ritual Year 1400-1700. Ronald Hutton
• The Manor, the Plowman, and the Shepherd : Agrarian Themes and Imagery in Late Medieval and Early Renaissance English Literature. Ordelle Hille
• The Politics of Obedience : The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude. Etienne De La Boetie

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Fast, Food and Famine

• Food and Feast in Tudor England (Coming Soon) All those interested in daily life in Tudor times and in the way that food and eating have changed over the centuries will enjoy this book.
• A Medieval Feast. Aliki  (Children's Book)
• The I Love Elvis Cookbook: More than 50 Hit Recipes. "The King" tells us how to make those fried peanut butter and ‘nanna sandwiches, and much, much more.
• Famine in Tudor and Stuart England. Andrew Appleby
• All Manners of Food: Eating and Taste in England and France from the Middle Ages to the Present. Stephen Mennell.
• Food & Drink in Britain: From the Stone Age to the 19^th Century. C. Anne Wilson
• A Medieval Cookbook. Maggie Black
• Fast and Feast: Food in Medieval Society. Bridget Anne Henisch
• History of Food. M. Toussaint-Samat.
• Food & Drink in Britain : From the Stone Age to the 19th Century C. Anne Wilson
• Food & Feast In Medieval England  P . W. Hammond
• Fabulous Feasts: Medieval Cookery and Ceremony. Madeleine Pelner Cosman.
• Six Thousand Years of Bread: Its Holy and Unholy History. H.E. Jacob.
• Brother Cadfael’s Herb Garden. Rob Talbot & Robin Whiteman.

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Wine & Beer

• Recipes from the Wineries of the Great Lakes Joe Borrello
• The Beer Navigator Pick the Perfect Beer for every meal. Doug Hexter. It's not just for breakfast, anymore.
• The Hangover Handbook: 101 Cures for Humanity’s oldest malady. Nick Van Oudtshoorn. This book’s for you.101 actual hangover remedies--from the ancient Greeks to modern "Greeks" (i.e. fraternities)--plus fascinating drinking trivia and anything but sober illustrations, THE HANGOVER HANDBOOK is fun. Unique beer-can shape. 25 illustrations.
• Food & Drink in Britain: From the Stone Age to the 19^th Century. C. Anne Wilson
• You Brew Good Ale: A History of Home-Brewed Ales. Ian P. Peaty
• The New Sotheby’s Wine Encyclopedia. T Stevenson.

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Costume and Dress

• Authentic Everyday Dress of the Renaissance
• Tudor Costume and Fashion-Herbert Norris
• Vecellio’s Renaissance Costume Book-All 500 Woodcut Illustrations
• Vecellio’s Pattern Book of Renaissance Lace
• The Little Bodice Construction Book Bonnie Holt Ambrose. Drawing on 22 years of experience in period costume, Bonnie Holt Ambrose has put together a series of superb little step-by-step books for sewers.  The books include lists of materials and tools needed and tips on how to change the trim and the fabric to change the look and period of the project. Theatre patterns and instructions to make Victorian, Rococo, Restoration and Elizabethan bodices with a variety of sleeves are also included. With these books and a little imagination one can readily create a wardrobe of outfits spanning several centuries. Other books in the series include: The Little Hatmaking Book, The Little Bodice Book, The Little Dressmaking Book and the Little Corset Construction Book.
• What People Wore. Douglas Gorsline
• History of Children’s Costume. Marion Sichel (Young Adult)
• History of Men’s Costume. Marion Sichel (Young Adult)
• History of Women’s Costume. Marion Sichel (Young Adult)
• High Fashion in Shakespeare’s Time: A Study of the Period With Pull-Up Scenes. Andrew Brownfoot (Ages 9-12)
• Clothes and the Child: A Handbook of Children’s Dress in England 1500-1900. Anne Buck
• Broadway Costumes on a Budget: Big Time Ideas for Amateur Producers. Janet Litherland
• Stage Costume Step By Step: The Complete Guide to Designing and Making Stage Costumes for All Drama Periods. Mary T. Kidd.
• Elegantly Frugal Costumes: The Poor Man’s Do-It-Yourself Costume Maker’s Guide. Shirley Dearing. Just about every basic period is covered: including Medieval and Renaissance. Many helpful hints on making or buying realistic period theatrical costumes on a shoestring budget from cast-offs, donations, scraps, and other easily-obtained materials. Also included are special effects costumes, helpful hints for getting into and out of costumes, and a glossary of costuming terms.
• Patterns for Theatrical Costumes Garments, Trims & Accessories from Ancient Egypt to 1915. Katherine Strand Holkeboer.
• After a fashion: How to reproduce, restore, and wear vintage styles. Francis Grimble. Line drawings. Covers clothing styles from medieval to modern.
• Elizabethan Costuming. Schultz.
• Historic Costume for the Stage. Lucy Barton. Written for stage costumes, may not be well suited for faires.
• Historical Costume of England  Nancy Bradfield
• Costumes and Scripts in the Elizabethan Theatres. Jean McIntyre. Includes background on the traditions of costume and costume change developed during the sixteenth century, on the costume practices of the court as recorded by the Office of Revels and on those documented in the records of Philip Henslowe. The author asserts that adoption of these Elizabethan practices by modern repertory companies, especially Shakespeare festivals, might help to mitigate some of the costliness of theatre in our time. (Sorry, "scripts" are not exactly lines to recite).
• English Costume for Sports and Outdoor Recreation: From the 16^th to 19^th Centuries. Phyllis Emily Cunnington. (OOP, but recomended)
• The Costume Designer’s Handbook: A Complete Guide for Amateur and Professional Costume Designers. Rosemary Ingham, Elizabeth Covey, Liz Covey.
• The Costume Technicians Handbook: A Complete Guide for Amateur and Professional Costume Technicians. Rosemary Ingham, Elizabeth Covey, Liz Covey
• Medieval Costume in England and France. Mary G. Houston
• Patterns of Fashion: The Cut and Construction of Clothes 1560-1620. Janet Arnold
• Western European Costume 13th to 17th Century. Iris Brooke, William-Alan Landes
• Period Costume for Stage and Screen: Patterns for Women's Dress Medieval to 1500. Jean Hunnisett, Kathryn Turner
• Period Costume for Stage and Screen 1500-1800. Jean Hunnisett, Janette Haslam
• Dress in the Age of Elizabeth I. Jane Ashford (OOP)
• Women's Headdress and Hairstyles in England from AD 600 to the Present Day. Georgine De Courtais (OOP, but recommended)
• Treasury of Historic Pattern Design. J Englehorn
• Basic Pattern Drafting for the Theatrical Costume Designer. William Harlan Shaw. (OOP)
• Tailor's pattern book, 1589 : facsimile (OOP) A reproduction of the original 1589 book. Requires advanced sewing abilities.
• Monumental Brasses as Art and History. Jerome Bertram. An attractive and scholarly study invaluable to a wide range of historians, especially those with antiquarian, costume and heraldic interests.
• Costume and Fashion: A Concise History. James Laver.
• The Art of Manipulating Fabric. Collette Wolff
• European Costume of the 16^th through 18^th Centuries in Full Color. 150 Illustrations.

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Arms and Armor

• Arms and Armor of the Medieval Knight. Michael Edge
• Armourers. (Medieval Crafts Series) Matthias Pfaffenbichler
• Heraldic Crests : A Pictorial Archive of 4,424 Designs for Artists and Craftspeople (Dover Pictorial Archive Series) James Fairbarin
• Strong of Body, Brave and Noble. Chivalry and Society in Medieval France. Constance Bouchard.
• Armies and Warfare in the Middle Ages: The English Experience. Michael Prestwich
• The Crossbow. Sir Ralph Payne-Gallwey.
• Siege Warfare: Fortress in the Early Modern World. Christopher Duffy.
• The Medieval Military Revolution. Andrew Ayton
• The Military Revolution in Sixteenth Century Europe. David Eltis.
• The Medieval Archer. Jim Bradbury
• Armourers (Medieval Craftsmen Series). Matthais Pfaffenbichler
• Arms & Armor of the Medieval Knight. David Edge
• An Historical Guide to Arms and Armor. Stephen Bull
• The Knight in Medieval England 1000-1400. Peter Coss.
• English Weapons and Warfare 449-1660. A. Vessey B Norman. (OOP)
• The Battlefields of Britain. David Smurthwaite.
• The Historical Guide to Arms and Armor. Tony North and Stephen Bull
• The Battlefield Walks: Scotland. David Clark
• The Battlefield Walks: The South:Hastings, Lewes and Sedgemoor David Clark
• The Battlefield Walks: The North. Battlefields of Northumberland, Yorkshire and others.David Clark
• The Battlefield Walks: The Midlands. Wars of the Roses sites. David Clark.
• Chivalry. Maurice Keen.
• The Archaeology of Weapons : Arms and Armour from Prehistory to the Age of Chivalry. R. Ewart Oakeshott.
• Aubrey Beardsley Designs from the Age of Chivalry. Barbara Holdridge.
• Knights in Shining Armor Gail Gibbons ( Recommended for ages 4-8)
• Knights in Armor -- John D. Clare (ages 9-12)
• Chronicles of the Age of Chivalry.1998 ed. Elizabeth Hallam (NOT YET RELEASED)
• Clans and Families of Ireland : The Heritage and Heraldry of Irish Clans and Families. John Grenham. Provides full-color illustrations of clan coats of arms and tartans, along with photographs of the Irish landscape.
• Clans & Tartans. Charles MacLean. Scotland’s woven heraldry.
• Royal & princely heraldry in Wales (OOP)
• American and British Genealogy and Heraldry. P William Filby
• Design Your Own Coat of Arms.
• The Oxford Guide to Heraldry. Thomas Woodcock
• Dog Heraldry: Official Collection of Canine Coats of Arms.
• Handbook of Designs and Devices. Clarence P Hornung
• Heraldic Alphabet. J P Brooke-Little
• The Heraldic Art Sourcebook. Peter Spurrier.
• Heraldry : For the Local Historian and Genealogist. Stephen Friar.
• Heraldry for the American Genealogist. Jean Stephenson
• Methods and Practice of Elizabethan Swordplay. Craig Turner. Stage swordfighting.
• Renaissance Swordsmanship: The Illustrated Use of Rapiers and Cut Throat Swords. John Clements. Stage swordfighting.
• Actors on Guard : A Practical Guide for the Use of the Rapier and Dagger for Stage and Screen. Dale Anthony Girard. Stage swordfighting.
• A Knight and His Weapons. E. Oakshott
• Records of the Medieval Sword. E. Oakshott

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Armada and Maritime

• The Armada. Garrett Mattingly
• How We Found the Mary Rose
• The Mary Rose Museum. Christopher Alexander, Gary Black.
• The Evolution of the Sailing Ship, 1250-1580 (Keynote Studies from the Mariner's Mirror). Basil Greenhill. David Starkey.
• The Evolution of the Sailing Navy, 1509-1815 (British History in Perspective). Richard Harding.

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For Kids

• Knights in Shining Armor Gail Gibbons ( Recommended for ages 4-8)

• Knights in Armor -- John D. Clare (ages 9-12)
• Arms and Armor (Pointers) Chris Gravett. Ages 9-12

• Tudor Odours – Smells like Tudor Spirit. If you’ve got a "nose for news", (like the Times), then this is for you. I do actually own a copy, but, it’s still safe in the clear plastic wrapper. "Stinking Streets, riddled with rats and plague"… "Sailors on the high seas"…"Revolting Royals", and more. Just reading the back cover sends me straight to a clove studded orange.Part of the "Smelly Old History" series: "Roman Aromas"and"Victorian Vapours". Good for a giggle.

• Knights (Not yet published)
• Young Queen Elizabeth. Frances Sabin (For ages 9-12)
• Queen Elizabeth Coloring Book (ages 9-12)
• Italian Renaissance Costumes Paper Dolls (Paper Doll Series) Tom Tierney
• Elizabethan Costumes Paper Dolls. Tom Tierney
• Elizabethan Country Home. Reeves. (Young Readers)
• A Medieval Feast. Aliki
• History of Children’s Costume. Marion Sichel (Young Adult)
• History of Men’s Costume. Marion Sichel (Young Adult)
• History of Women’s Costume. Marion Sichel (Young Adult)
• High Fashion in Shakespeare’s Time: A Study of the Period With Pull-Up Scenes. Andrew Brownfoot (Ages 9-12)
• Clothes and the Child: A Handbook of Children’s Dress in England 1500-1900. Anne Buck
• It’s Disgusting, and We Ate It! True Food Facts from around the world and through history. James Solheim Illustrations by Eric Brace
• Dragons Stained Glass Coloring Book. John Green
• Medieval Knights Stained Glass. John Green. (Not Yet Published)
• Little Celtic Stained Glass Coloring Book. John Green
• Fairies Stained Glass Coloring Book. Marty Noble
• Fairies and Flowers Stained Glass Coloring Book. Marty Noble
• The Prince and the Pauper (Children's Thrift Classics). Mark Twain’s classic story set in the court of Edward VI, son of Henry VIII. A bargain. Ages 9-12
• The Outlaws of Sherwood. Robin McKinley.
• The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood : Of Great Renown, in Nottinghamshire. Howard Pyle.
• Drake & the 16^th Century Explorers (Great Explorer Series) J. A. Guy. (Ages 9-12)
• The Castle : A Pop-Up Fantasy. Tom Partridge. Four three dimensional pages standing over 1 foot high, with 25 figures. We know it’s a Tudor Castle, because it comes complete with an executioner. (Ages 4-8, but fun for all ages)
• Castle: An Interactive Guide. Models, Book, Stickers and More! (Ages 9-12)
• Castle at War: The Story of a Siege. Andrew Langley. (Ages 9-12)
• A Ghost in the Castle. Sigrid Heuck. A captive owl against a backdrop of medieval Europe. This rare bird, traveling with a circus, is sheltered and fed. It has forgotten how to forage for food and doesn't remember ever flying. When the opportunity for escape presents itself, the owl hesitates. Freedom means taking responsibility and risks. (This is a children’s book, so the Tudor Times editors will leave off drawing any comparisons to present day welfare programs.)
• Goblins in the Castle. Bruce Coville. (Ages 9-12)

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Shakespeare and Drama

• The Breath of an Unfee’d Lawyer-Shakespeare on Lawyers and the Law.
  From the publisher, Catbird Press, catbird@pipeline.com, 01/04/97:
  Shakespearean wit and wisdom about and applied to the law. Edward J. Bander has collected the choicest morsels of Shakespearean wit and wisdom about lawyers and the law. He has also applied Shakespeare’s words to legal matters, with very humorous results. A perfect gift for any lawyer, paralegal, legal secretary, law student, or anyone who delights in a well turned phrase turned against the legal system.
• Shakespeare’s Bawdy Thank goodness for Eric Partridge's dictionary of Elizabethan smut, so we can get the double-entendres, too. Thus, "hardening of one's brows" (The Winter's Tale) refers to being cuckolded, "laced mutton" (Two Gentleman of Verona) is a prostitute, "riggish" (Cleopatra) means lascivious, and "groping for trout in a peculiar river" (Measure for Measure) means copulating with a woman.
• Medieval & Tudor Drama – John Gassner
• Tudor Plays—An Anthology of Early English Drama. Edmund Creeth. Serious students only. (Or, those with a highly refined sense of medieval mirth). Useful for students of Shakespeare for glimpses of his inspiration. Also useful for students of early language use. (N.B.-- This is written in the language of the time, with the exception of the introductions and notes. Not recommended for light readers, these are the actual plays presented in the 15^th -16^th centuries, in period language. For any reader, we recommend you find this through an  inter-library loan before you commit to a purchase).
• A Dictionary of Shakespeare's Sexual Puns and Their Significance-Frankie Rubinstein A great gift for an undergraduate who is bored with the Bard. "Useful for serious scholars of literature, or those interested in sexual expression in earlier times." Booknews, Inc. The 35-page supplement to the second edition focuses on the sonnets and on puns used by other Elizabethan writers. Indexed by character for those who have favorites.
• Shakespeare's Insults : Educating Your Wit
• The Reader’s Encyclopedia of Shakespeare
• John Hall and His Patients: The Medical Practice of Shakespeare’s Son-in-Law. Joan Lane.
• Painted Faces on the Renaissance Stage : The Moral Significance of Face-Painting Conventions. Annette Drew-Bear. Anyone curious about cosmetics and attitudes will enjoy reading about the ingredients of the makeup worn by both women and men in the Renaissance to achieve the fashionable white face, rosy cheeks, and light hair. Also entertaining is the discussion of the effects of toxic ingredients like lead, mercury, and vitriol.
• Plays of Persuasion : Drama and Politics at the Court of Henry VIII. Greg Walker
• After Dinner Shakespeare: 100 Parlor Cards with Questions and Answers to Stimulate the Mind and Provoke Lively Conversation. Barry Kraft.

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Art

• Dynasties; Painting in Tudor and Jacobean England, 1530-1630
  Karen Hearn --150 full color paintings of English Monarchs through Chas I.
• Cardinal Wolsey, Church, State and Art (pricey)
• Painting in Britain, 1530-1790. Ellis K. Waterhouse
• Decorative Ornaments and Alphabets of the Renaissance : 1,020 Copyright-Free Motifs from Printed Sources (Dover Pictorial Archive Series) OK, Clip art.
• Early Medieval Designs from Britain for Artists and Craftspeople (Pictorial Archive Series) Eva Wilson. More Clip art.
• Heraldic Crests : A Pictorial Archive of 4,424 Designs for Artists and Craftspeople (Dover Pictorial Archive Series) James Fairbarin
• Ready-To-Use Medieval Herb, Plant and Flower Illustrations : 294 Different Copyright-Free Designs Printed One Side (Clip Art Series) Carol Belanger Grafton
• The Pre-Raphelites: Their Lives and Letters in Diaries.
  Right you are-this has nothing to do with the Renaissance. These are some of the painters whose works grace the album covers of the New World Renaissance Band.
• Holbein and the Court of Henry VIII : Drawings and Miniatures from the Royal Library Windsor Castle
• Holbein Portrait Drawings : 44 Plates
• Holbein's 'Ambassadors : Making & Meaning. Susan Foister.If you have an extremely keen interest in this one particular painting, this is your book Perhaps you might visit the BBC News and take the "Internet Lesson on the Ambassadors" Link, instead.
• Hans Holbein: Portrait of an Unknown Man. Derek Wilson
• Holbein (Colour Library) Helen Langdon
• Celtic Ornament: The Art of the Scribe
• The Art of Devotion in the Late Middle Ages in Europe, 1300-1500. Henk van Os
• The Brummer Collection of Medieval Art. Caroline Bruzelius
• French Tapestries and Textiles in the J Paul Getty Museum. Charissa Mremer-David
• Book Illumination in the Middle Ages. Otto Pacht.
• The Huntin Book of Gaston Phebus. Marcel Thomas.
• Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery. Lilian MC Randall
• The Invention of Infinity: Mathematics and Art in the Renaissance. J. V. Field
• Michelangelo: The Vatican Frescoes. Pierluigi De Vecchi
• The Arnolfini Betrothal : Medieval Marriage and the Enigma of Van Eyck's Double Portrait (Discovery Series, 3). Edwin Hall
• Beasts and Animals in Decorative Woodcuts of the Renaissance. Konrad Gesser.
• Dynasties; Painting in Tudor and Jacobean England, 1530-1630 Karen Hearn 150 full color paintings of English Monarchs through Chas I.
• Art and Decoration in Elizabethan and Jacobean England : The Influence of Continental Prints, 1558-1625. Anthony Wells-Cole
• Images of Rule : Art and Politics in the English Renaissance, 1485-1649. David Howarth
• Treasures of the French Renaissance. Ivan Coulas

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Stained Glass

• The Beauty of Stained Glass. Patrick Reyntiens (OOP)
• 415 Original Designs for Stained Glass. Michael Gowen
• 390 Traditional Stained Glass Designs. Hywel G. Harris
• Discovering Stained Glass in Detroit. Nola Huse Tutag with Lucy Hamilton.
• Stained Glass in England. June Osborne
• Stained Glass in England During the Middle Ages. Richard Marks
• William Morris Stained Glass Pattern Book. (Not Yet Published). William Morris is perhaps the best known of the Victorian Era artists who popularized the Renaissance "arts and crafts" style. At this price, could be worth a look when published.

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Royal Pleasures and Pastimes

• Royal Pleasures and Pastimes : Crafts from the Royal Courts
• Monarchy and Incest in Renaissance England: Literature, Culture, Kinship and Kingship. Bruce Thomas Boehrer
• Untam’d Desire: Sex in Elizabethan England. Alan Haynes.
• Kings & Queens of Europe: A Genalogical Chart of the Royal Houses of Great Britain and Europe. Complied by Anne Taute.
• Tudor and Jacobean Jewelry – Diana Scarisbrick
• The Medieval Garden By Sylvia Landsberg.
• The English Formal Garden: Five Centuries of Design. Gunter Mader. Translated by Ingrid Taylor
• Rose Recipes From Olden Times Eleanour Sinclair Rohde. Recipes from the 16th -19th centuries. Any book that sources Dr William Bullein is an instant favorite of mine.
• Flowers, Birds and Unicorns: Medieval Needlepoint. Candace Bahouth
• Medieval Tapestry Designs. Delores M. Andres
• Medieval Cross Stitch Samplers. Angela Wainwright. Adapted from tapestries, stained glass, and illuminated manuscripts, the projects include samplers, desk accessories, cushions, and a dressing table set. The author’s choice of color can easily be changed to suit your tastes.
• Celtic Cross Stitch. Mike Vickery. 30 patterns, plus the Celtic alphabet, can easily be transferred to other types of needlework. Each pattern includes: materials needed, pattern size, stitch count, Anchor/DMC threads needed and color graph.
• Celtic Cross Stitch: 30 Animal, Alphabet and Knotwork Projects. Gail Lawther
• The Carver's Art : Medieval Sculpture in Ivory, Bone, and Horn. Archer St. Clair
• The Decline and Fall of the House of Windsor. Donald Spoto. 
• Art and Power: Renaissance Festivals 1450-1650. Roy Strong. Explains why your webmistress was last seen at Faire mumbling to herself: "Oh, lighten up, olde girl!".
• Letters of the Queens of England, 1100-1547. Anne Crawford.
• Pleasures and Pastimes in Medieval England. Compton Reeves.
• The Medici Wedding of 1589. James Saslow
• The Art of Tassel Making. Susan Dickens
• The Lady and the Unicorn. (Not Yet Published) Alain Erlande-Brandenburg
• Medieval Tapestry Designs. Delores M Andrew
• Celtic Knotwork Designs. Shelia Sturrock.
• Embroidery in Britain From 1200 to 1750: The Victoria & Albert Museum's Textile Collection. Donald King
• The Politics of Courtly Dancing in Early Modern England (Massachusetts Studies in Early Modern Culture) Skiles Howard
• Tudor Political Culture. Dale Hoak
• Press Censorship in Elizabethan England. Cyndia Susan Clegg
• Love & Longing in the Age of Chivalry. M Yeilding Scribner
• The Art of Courtly Love. Andreanus Cappelanus.
• The Book of the Courtier. Baldesar Castiglione
• The Meaning of Courtly Love. Francis X Neumann
• Floure and the Leafe, the Assembly of Ladies, the Isle of Ladies. Derek Pearsall. Serious students, written in Middle English.
• Silver Poets of the 16^th Century. Douglas Brooks-Davies (ed). Featuring Sir Thomas Wyatt, Henry Howard Earl of Surrey, Sir Walter Raleigh and Sir John Davies includes devotional poetry, musings on the cult of Elizabeth, love lyrics and apocalyptic prophecies. Also visit this website for selected poems from Howard and Wyatt.
• The Royal Palaces of Tudor England : Architecture and Court Life 1460-1547. Simon Thurley
• Early Tudor Parliaments, 1485-1558 (Seminar Studies in History). Michael A. R. Graves.
• Courtly Letters in the Age of Henry VIII : Literary Culture and the Arts of Deceit (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture, 18) Seth Lerer
• A Critical Edition of Sir Thomas Elyot's the Boke Named the Governour (The Renaissance Imagination) Donald W Rude. Describes the form of a just government, the proper education of a king, and the ethical standards to which rulers should aspire. Preserves the original spelling, marginal notes, and index; provides extensive textual and biographical notes.
• In Hope of Heaven : English Recusant Prison Writings of the Sixteenth Century (American University Studies. Series Iv, English Language and Literature). Paul Strauss. Looks at four Recusant writers of the sixteenth century - John Fisher, Thomas More, Robert Southwell, and Benedict Canfield - each imprisoned for the practice of his Catholic faith.
• Political Protest and Prophecy Under Henry VIII. Sharon L Jansen
• Rede Me and Be Nott Wrothe. William Roye. From Booknews: "Too hot to appear in England, it was published in the Lutheran stronghold of Strasbourg in 1528".
• Renaissance Women : The Plays of Elizabeth Cary : The Poems of Aemilia Lanyer (Pickering Women's Classics). Elizabeth Cary was one of the few Renaissance Englishwomen with a publicly acknowledged position as a writer and patron. Her later conversion to Roman Catholicism, however, cost her this place.
• The Pleasure Garden. Ann Scott James
• The Book of Hours. Roger S Wieck.
• Michelangelo (art and ideas). Anthony Hughes
• Renaissance (Abbeville Stylebooks) Tracey E Cooper
• Fencer's Start-Up : A Beginner's Guide to Traditional & Sport Fencing (Start-Up Sports, No 8). Doug Werner. For beginning fencers who just want to have fun with the sport of fencing.

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Music

• Elizabethans (Essay Index in Reprint Series.) A. H. Bullen. Prof. Bullen lectures on six Renaissance composers and writers.
• Lyrics from the dramatists of the Elizabethan Age. A. H. Bullen
• Some Shorter Elizabethan Poems. A. H. Bullen
• Celtic Treasure -  Celtic Songs CD
• Renaissance Music-Music of the 15^th and 16^th Centuries (Norton Introduction to Music History) Allan W. Atlas. Used as a Classroom text.
• Courtly Dance of the Renaissance. Fabrito Caroso
• Medieval and Renaissance Music: A Performer’s Guide. Timothy J. McGee
• A Performer’s Guide to Renaissance Music. Jeffrey T. Kite-Powell. An American perspective on the performance of Renaissance music.
• Singing Early Music : The Pronunciation of European Languages in the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance (Music--Scholarship and Performance) Timothy J. McGee (Ed.) You say "Grutch", I say, "Grudge". Has Accompanying CD.
• Music in the Age of the Renaissance. Leeman Perkins. (Coming Soon). Called the most comprehensive survey of Renaissance music to appear in over forty years, available Dec 98.
• Anthology of Renaissance Music. Allan W Atlas
• Companion to Medieval and Renaissance Music. Tess Knighton and David Fallows.
• Elizabethan Songs. Edmund H Garrett
• A Complete Concordance to the Songs of the Early Tudor Court. (OOP)
• Minstrels & Angels : Carvings of Musicians in Medieval English Churches (Fallen Leaf Reference Books in Music, No. 33.) (NOT YET PUBLISHED)

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Medicine

• A Dialogue Against the Fever Pestilence (Extra, Series : No 52) Mark Bullen.  This comment is a Boleyn writing about a Bullen who is writing about a Bullein (often spelt "Bulleyn", just another fun variation for those boisterous Boleyns). I've got this on order, so watch this space for the review.
• The Great Pox: The French Disease in Renaissance Europe. Jon Arrizabalqa. A scholarly investigation of the response in Italy, France, and Germany to the sudden appearance of a seemingly new disease, ``the pox'' (syphilis), in the 1490s. To a continent only just recovering from the Black Death (which decimated a third of Europe's population 130 years earlier), this new disease seemed like an equally lethal calamity. Some of the devout, considering how the disease was transmitted, felt that ``the pox'' was God's punishment on sinners and required no intervention.
• Man and Microbes : Disease and Plagues in History and Modern Times. Arno Karlen.
• Rats, Lice and History. Hans Zinsser
• The Medieval Health Handbook. Luisa Coqliati Arano.
• Medieval Womans Guide to Health : The First English Gynecological Handbook. Beryl Rolad. (OOP but recommended)
• Honey, Mud and Maggots and Other Medical Marvels The Science Behind Folk Remedies and Old Wives' Tales. Robert Root-Bernstein and Michele Root-Bernstein. The Root-Bernsteins--he's a MacArthur fellow and physiologist (Michigan State Univ.), she's an award-winning writer of history- present a fresh look at old remedies.
• John Hall and His Patients: The Medical Practice of Shakespeare’s Son-in-Law. Joan Lane.
• King Death: The Black Death and Its Aftermath in Late Medieval England. Colin Platt.
• Medical Ethics in the Renaissance. Winfried Schleiner. Drawing on the writings of doctors from the mid 16^th to mid 17^th centuries, the book traces the development of ethical ideas in medicine during the Renaissance.
• Medieval & Early Renaissance Medicine : An Introduction to Knowledge and Practice. Nancy G. Siraisi.
• Healing and society in Medieval England. Faye Marie Getz
• Impact of Plague in Tudor and Stuart England. Paul Slack.
• With Faith and Physic : The Life of a Tudor Gentlewoman, Lady Grace Mildmay, 1552-1620. Linda Pollock. Lady Mildmay's medical papers illustrate the type of treatment practiced by women, the range of ailments they were prepared to treat, how medicines were manufactured, what ingredients were used and what they cost - and they show that there was little difference between the care offered by a university-trained physician and a self-taught woman.

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Other Tudor Players

• The History of the Reign of King Henry VII and Selected Works (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) Francis Bacon. (I loathe secondary sources, you, too?) Edited by Brian Vickers
• The Perkin Warbeck Conspiracy by Ian Arthurson
• Coronation of Glory: The Story of Lady Jane Grey. Deborah Meroff COMING SOON
• When Knighthood Was in Flower: Or, the Love Story of Charles Brandon and Mary Tudor, the King's Sister, and Happening in the Reign of His August majesty. Charles Major.
• William Tyndale: A Biography. David Danielle
• The Lady Mary: a biography of Mary Tudor 1516-1558 Milton Waldman (OOP)
• Bloody Mary. Carolly Erickson (NOT YET RELEASED)
• The Reign of Mary I (Seminar Studies in History). Robert Tittler
• Mary, Queen of Scots: the fair devil of Scotland Jean Plaidy. (No partisanship in the title, here) (OOP)
• Elizabethans (Essay Index in Reprint Series.) A. H. Bullen
• The Essential Wyatt. Sir Thomas Wyatt. Court Poet and cousin to Anne Boleyn.
• Wyatt, Surrey and Early Tudor Poetry (Logman Medieval and Renaissance Library). Elizabeth Heale
• Silver Poets of the 16^th Century. Douglas Brooks-Davies (ed). Featuring Sir Thomas Wyatt, Henry Howard Earl of Surrey, Sir Walter Raleigh and Sir John Davies includes devotional poetry, musings on the cult of Elizabeth, love lyrics and apocalyptic prophecies. Also visit this website for selected poems from Howard and Wyatt.
• The Sign of the Golden Grasshopper : A Life of Sir Thomas Gresham. Perry E. Gresham. Carol Jose.
• So Idle a Rogue : The Life and Death of Lord Rochester. Jeremy Lamb. I think this is the guy that Rochester, Michigan is named after. Yeah, that’s it.
• Who's Who in Tudor England (Who's Who in the British History, Vol. 4. C. R. Routh (editor)
• Thomas Cranmer : A Life. Diarmaid MacCulloch
• Thomas More's Prayer Book : A Facsimile Reproduction of the Annotated Pages. St. Thomas More.
• The Early Elizabethan Polity : William Cecil and the British Succession Crisis, 1558-1569 (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History). Stephen Alford. (NOT YET PUBLISHED)
• The Ebbs and Flows of Fortune : The Life of Thomas Howard, Third Duke of Norfolk. David M Head. Spice Boy of the Tudor times. Repeatedly banned from court or sent to remote places in Ireland, Scotland and France. Uncle to two of Henry VIII’s wives: Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard.
• Henry Viii's Conservative Scholar : Bishop John Stokesley and the Divorce, Royal Supremacy and Doctrinal Reform. Andrew A Chibi
• Sir Francis Drake: The Queen’s Pirate. Harry Kelsey

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Castles and Such

• The Great Fire at Hampton Court. Michael Fishlock
• English Castles: A Guide by Counties. Adrian Pettifer
• The Tudor and Jacobean Country House: A Building History. Malcolm Airs
• Elizabethan and Jacobean Style. Tim Mowl.
• Building in England Down to 1540. LF Salzman. Please order this book, I have two step sons in college.
• The Medieval Castle in England and Wales : A Social and Political History. Norman J. Pounds
• Elizabethan Country Home. Reeves. (Young Readers)
• Castle Ghosts of England. VHS Video. From the Discovery Channel.
• The Medieval Castle in England and Wales : A Social and Political History. Norman J Pounds

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Pre Tudor Times

• The Lives of the Kings & Queens of England Lady Antonia Fraser Spanning ten dynasties, this guide to almost 1,000 years of history, told through the lives and deeds of England's kings and queens, features biographies from the invading Normans to the contemporary House of Windsor. Accompanying the text are contemporary and historical illustrations, genealogical tables, and drawings and explanations of all the royal coats of arms.
• Chronicles of the Wars of the Roses; The Turbulent Years of the Last Plantagenets, Seven Kings from Richard II in 1377 to Richard III in 1483 Elizabeth Hallam
• The Wars of the Roses; Through the Lives of Five Men and Women of the Fifteenth Century. Desmond Seward.
• The Princes in the Tower Alison Weir
• The Betrayal of Richard III B. Lamb, P. W. Hammond
• Richard III Charles Ross
• Richard III, the great debate Paul Murray Kendall
• Richard III: England’s Black Legend. Desmond Seward
• Richard III (The New Folger Library Shakespeare)
• The Lives of the Kings & Queens of England Lady Antonia Fraser
• 1066 And All That. W.C. Sellar, and R. J. Yeatman
• The Work of Angels: Masterpieces of Celtic Metalwork, 6^th-9^th Centuries AD
• A Distant Mirror The Calamitous 14^th Century. Barbara W. Tuchman
• A Fool and His Money: Life in a Partitioned Town in 14^th Century France. Ann Wroe.

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General History

• Past Imperfect: History according to the movies
• Dictionary of Historical Terms Chris Cook
• Where Queen Elizabeth Slept & What the Butler Saw : Historical Terms from the Sixteenth Century to the Present David Durant
• Who’s Buried Where in England.Douglas Greenwood.

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Fiction

• Autobiography of Henry VIII : With Notes by His Fool, Will Somers : A Novel. Margaret Thomas
• Utopia. Thomas More
• Face Down Upon an Herbal, the second mystery featuring Susanna, Lady Appleton. Kathy Lynn Emerson.
• Face Down in the Marrow Bone Pie. Susanna, Lady Appleton’s debut. Kathy Lynn Emerson.
• The Succession : A Novel of Elizabeth and James. George P Garrett
• I, Elizabeth. Rosalind Miles
• Merlin’s Harp. Anne Eliot Crompton
• Lady of Avalon. Marion Zimmer Bradley
• The Mists of Avalon. Marion Zimmer Bradley
• Arthur. Stephen Lawhead
• The Last Pendragon. Robert Rice.
• The Queen’s Man-A Medieval Mystery. Sharon Kay Penman.
• Here Be Dragons. Sharon Kay Penman.
• Falls the Shadow. Sharon Kay Penman.
• The Sunne in Splendor. Sharon Kay Penman.
• The Reckoning. Sharon Kay Penman.
• When Christ and His Saints Slept. Sharon Kay Penman
• The Candlemass Road. George MacDonald Fraser.
• Mark Twain : Historical Romances : The Prince and the Pauper. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc. Classic stories. The Prince and the Pauper is set in the Court of Edward VI, son of Henry VIII.
• A Bloody Field by Shrewsbury. Edith Pargeter (Ellis Peters)
• The Brothers of Gwynedd. Edith Pargeter (Ellis Peters)

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