Not Just the Tudors - Reading List
1. 
The Power of Gifts: Gift Exchange in Early Modern England
by:
Felicity Heal
3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings 
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Rich Apparel: Clothing and the Law in Henry VIII's England
by:
Maria Hayward
4.88 avg rating — 8 ratings 6. 
Inca Apocalypse: The Spanish Conquest and the Transformation of the Andean World
by:
R. Alan Covey
3.82 avg rating — 71 ratings 
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Embroidering Her Truth: Mary Queen of Scots and the Language of Power
by:
Clare Hunter
4.21 avg rating — 385 ratings 
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The Origins of the British Empire in Asia, 1600 - 1750
by:
David Veevers
3.36 avg rating — 14 ratings 13. 
Hubbub: Filth, Noise, and Stench in England, 1600-1770
by:
Emily Cockayne
3.96 avg rating — 251 ratings 15. 
Invisible Agents: Women and Espionage in Seventeenth-Century Britain
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Nadine Akkerman
3.89 avg rating — 79 ratings 
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The Faithful Executioner: Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century 3.99 avg rating — 4,343 ratings
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Tokyo Before Tokyo: Power and Magic in the Shogun’s City of Edo
by:
Timon Screech
4.31 avg rating — 35 ratings 19. 
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The Betrayal of Mary, Queen of Scots: Elizabeth I and Her Greatest Rival
by:
Kate Williams
4.08 avg rating — 1,014 ratings 
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Henrietta Maria: Conspirator, Warrior, Phoenix Queen
by:
Leanda de Lisle
4.06 avg rating — 240 ratings 
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The Story of the Death of Anne Boleyn: A Poem by Lancelot de Carle (Volume 580) (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies)
by:
Joann Dellaneva
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 29. 
Martyrs and Murderers: The Guise Family and the Making of Europe
by:
Stuart Carroll
3.55 avg rating — 84 ratings 
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Blood, Fire and Gold: The story of Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici
by:
Estelle Paranque
4.07 avg rating — 1,185 ratings 32. 
Jews on trial: The Papal Inquisition in Modena, 1598–1638 it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Young and Damned and Fair: The Life of Catherine Howard, Fifth Wife of King Henry VIII
by:
Gareth Russell
4.15 avg rating — 2,237 ratings 36. 
Maids, Wives, Widows: Exploring Early Modern Women's Lives, 1540–1740
by:
Sara Read
3.83 avg rating — 337 ratings 38. 
Facial Hair and the Performance of Early Modern Masculinity
by:
Eleanor Rycroft
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating 38. 
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The Blazing World: A New History of Revolutionary England, 1603-1689
by:
Jonathan Healey
4.19 avg rating — 1,333 ratings 42. 
How to Be a Renaissance Woman: The Untold History of Beauty & Female Creativity
by:
Jill Burke
3.89 avg rating — 1,027 ratings 42. 
The Man Who Invented Fiction: How Cervantes Ushered in the Modern World
by:
William Egginton
3.70 avg rating — 200 ratings 44. 
The Black Prince of Florence: The Spectacular Life and Treacherous World of Alessandro de’ Medici 3.77 avg rating — 312 ratings
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The Dead and the Living in Paris and London, 1500–1670
by:
Vanessa Harding
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings 46. 
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The Tudors in Love: Passion and Politics in the Age of England's Most Famous Dynasty
by:
Sarah Gristwood
3.73 avg rating — 678 ratings 50. 
Courting India: Seventeenth-Century England, Mughal India, and the Origins of Empire
by:
Nandini Das
3.84 avg rating — 221 ratings 52. 
Vernacular Bodies: The Politics of Reproduction in Early Modern England
by:
Mary E. Fissell
3.97 avg rating — 33 ratings 53. 
The Sultan and the Queen: The Untold Story of Elizabeth and Islam
by:
Jerry Brotton
3.81 avg rating — 612 ratings 
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Translating Nature into Art: Holbein, the Reformation, and Renaissance Rhetoric it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Shakespeare's First Folio: Four Centuries of an Iconic Book
by:
Emma Smith
4.01 avg rating — 81 ratings 61. 
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God's Traitors: Terror & Faith in Elizabethan England
by:
Jessie Childs
3.91 avg rating — 321 ratings 63. 
The Extraordinary Journey of David Ingram: An Elizabethan Sailor in Native North America
by:
Dean Snow
3.84 avg rating — 25 ratings 65. 
Literature and politics in the English Reformation
by:
Tom Betteridge
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating 65. 
Shakespeare’s Book: The Intertwined Lives Behind the First Folio
by:
Chris Laoutaris
3.77 avg rating — 101 ratings 67. 
Crown of Blood: The Deadly Inheritance of Lady Jane Grey
by:
Nicola Tallis
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,509 ratings 67. 
The Portable Queen: Elizabeth I and the Politics of Ceremony
by:
Mary Hill Cole
3.14 avg rating — 7 ratings 
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Thunder Go North: The Hunt for Sir Francis Drake's Fair and Good Bay
by:
Melissa C. Darby
4.50 avg rating — 18 ratings 73. 
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All the Queen's Jewels, 1445-1548: Power, Majesty and Display
by:
Nicola Tallis
4.35 avg rating — 37 ratings 77. 
Witchfinders: A Seventeenth-Century English Tragedy
by:
Malcolm Gaskill
3.27 avg rating — 1,011 ratings 
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The Last Witches of England: A Tragedy of Sorcery and Superstition
by:
John Callow
3.49 avg rating — 61 ratings 82. 
The Forgotten Tudor Women: Anne Seymour, Jane Dudley & Elisabeth Parr 3.88 avg rating — 362 ratings
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His Invention So Fertile: A Life of Christopher Wren by Tinniswood Adrian (2001-11-29) Hardcover 3.90 avg rating — 58 ratings
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The Temptation of Elizabeth Tudor: Elizabeth I, Thomas Seymour, and the Making of a Virgin Queen
by:
Elizabeth Norton
3.75 avg rating — 608 ratings 86. 
Girl Culture in the Middle Ages and Renaissance: Performance and Pedagogy
by:
Deanne Williams
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 
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Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
by:
Laura Cumming
4.17 avg rating — 1,925 ratings 
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Dürer's Journeys: Travels of a Renaissance Artist
by:
Susan Foister
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 17 ratings 
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Angels and Belief in England, 1480-1700 (Religious Cultures in the Early Modern World) by Laura Sangha (2015-07-17)
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Unknown Author
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 94. 
A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes
by:
Adam Rutherford
4.03 avg rating — 11,637 ratings 
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