LYCOS RETRIEVER 
Stuart England
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The great formal gardens of Tudor and Stuart England are a totally lost art form. Swept away by the exponents of the landscape style in the 18th century, they are now seen in the form of Victorian re-creations around the ancient manor houses of England. But before Repton, Capability Brown and Henry Wise, England had been open to all the impulses that made the Renaissance garden. Up to the outbreak of the Civil War in 1642, the response had been some of the most legendary garden complexes of Renaissance Europe: Henry VIII's Hampton Court, Burgley's Theobalds, Lord Pembroke's Wilton. Intertwined with this story, which touches on the history of politics, art, architecture, literature and ideas, are some of the great figures of the age: Robert Cecil, Francis Bacon, Inigo Jones, Lucy Harington, Countess of Bedford, Charles I and Henrietta Maria, John Evelyn and Andrew Marvell. The study includes some visual material in the form of plans, diagrams, views and engravings of the lost gardens of Tudor and Stuart England.
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Stuart England was a society undergoing rapid transformation, as living standards rose, and a growing proportion of the population was living in urban areas. It was ... a time of war, revolution, plague and religious conflict. The age is remembered for notable figures such as Oliver Cromwell, Isaac Newton, and Samuel Pepys, but what was life like for ordinary people during such tumultuous events as the Civil War, the Great Plague, and the Great Fire of London? The author brings life in seventeenth-century England alive for students and general readers alike. Chapters devoted to the course of life and cycles of time; the living environment; clothing and accoutrements; food and drink; and entertainments detail the day-to-day lives of those living in Stuart England, while the role of women; religion; science and technology; the military; and trade and economy are also explored. Black and white photographs, maps and charts are interspersed throughout the text to assist readers.
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Book Description: From childbirth and baptism through to courtship, weddings, and funerals, every stage in the lifecycle of Tudor and Stuart England was accompanied by ritual. Even under the Protestantism of the reformed Church, the spiritual and social dramas of birth, marriage, and death were graced with elaborate ceremony. Powerful and controversial protocols were in operation, shaped and altered by the influences of the Reformation, the Revolution, and the Restoration. Each of the major rituals was potentially an arena for argument, ambiguity, and dissent. Ideally, as classic rites of passage, these ceremonies worked to bring people together. But they ... set up traps into which people could stumble, and tests which not everybody could pass.
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Anne Stuart was an unlikely person to become queen of England. She was born on February 6, 1665 to the Duke and Duchess of York and was their second daughter out of three children. Shortly before her birth, her uncle, King Charles II, had married and seemed destined to have a large family after fathering several illegitimate children. But he had no more children. As Anne grew older she would be plagued by numerous health problems, but she survived to adulthood. She only received a limited education, yet Anne would reign during a critically important period in her nation's history.
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VINTAGE STUART OLD FASHIONED GLASS-HAMPSHIRE Manufactured in Stourbridge, England, Stuart Crystal had over 150 years of family tradition in every piece before becoming a member of the Waterford Wedgewood Group in 1995. "HAMPSHIRE" is a delicate design of handblown, hand-cut crystal which is no longer produced (1955-1981). The simplicity of the cutting makes this pattern appropriate for the traditional as well as the contemporary decor. Measuring 3-1/2" high, this old fashioned glass is slightly flared at top and has never been used. The underside is stamped Stuart Crystal and there are no chips or cracks-MINT
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The best general studies of seventeenth century England are: B Coward, The Stuart Age. England 1603-1714 (1994) and D Hirst, England in Conflict, 1603-1660 (1999), both largely chronological in structure; A Woolrych, Britain in Revolution, 1625-60 (2002), an analytical narrative of the thirty-five years from the accession of Charles I to the Restoration; R Lockyer, The Early Stuarts. A Political History of England 1603-42 (1998), which is thematically arranged; and, on society, J Sharpe, Early Modern England. A Social History 1550-1760 (1997) and the briefer overview by B Coward, Social Change and Continuity: England 1550-1750 (1997). D Smith has written two overviews of particular themes: A History of the Modern British Isles 1603-1707 (1998) on Scotland and England and, on England alone, The Stuart Parliaments 1603-89 (1999). J P Kenyon (ed), The Stuart Constitution (1986), A Hughes (ed), Seventeenth Century England.
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