The Illustrated Tudor Dictionary

Simon Sandys-Winsch

• Publisher: Pen and Sword
• Year: 2025
• Edition: 0
• eBook ISBN:
  9781036102029
• Topic: History
• Index: History

Offers a comprehensive and visually engaging guide to key figures, events, and themes of sixteenth-century England. The Illustrated Tudor Dictionary is unique. For the first time, the Tudor Age has been brought to life in an illustrated dictionary format that is clear and easy to read. It is aimed at anyone who wants to widen and deepen their knowledge of sixteenth-century England. Cross-referencing is made easy with highlighted text and numerous, beautiful images provide further insight into this period. All notable characters, events and themes are covered, ranging from Henry VIII, education and the Battle of Bosworth to Francis Drake, the Reformation and the Spanish Armada. Several entries also deal with lesser-known characters and aspects such as Will Somer, marriage and Parliament. The book aims to include all of the important facts but, at the same time, provide the reader with fascinating trivia. The following questions, for example, are answered: Which king's head was used as a football? Who was the first female ambassador in European history? Who had to be buried at midnight to prevent a riot? Why was a leading European academic abducted, blindfolded and forced into a fishing boat? Which 'wizard' claimed he could communicate with angels? Why is a hangman's rope displayed in a school cabinet? Which monarch always cheated at cards? Written in a concise and balanced style, The Illustrated Tudor Dictionary is the best introduction for students and lovers of history to the heroes and villains, the saints and sinners and the glories and disasters of the Tudor Age.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Book Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Map
• Family Trees
• Preface
• Timeline
• Allen, William
• Ancrum Moor, Battle of
• First Anglo-French War
• Second Anglo-French War
• Third Anglo-French War
• Fourth Anglo-French War
• Anglo-Spanish War
• Aragon, Catherine of
• Arthur, Prince of Wales
• Articles (of Religion)
• Askew, Anne
• Babington Plot
• Barton, Elizabeth
• Beaufort, Margaret
• Bess of Hardwick
• Blount, Charles (Lord Mountjoy)
• Boleyn, Anne
• Bonner, Edmund
• Book of Martyrs
• Bosworth Field, Battle of
• Brandon, Charles (First Duke of Suffolk)
• Burbage, Richard
• Burghley, Lord
• Butts, Sir William
• Byrd, William
• Cabot, John
• Cabot, Sebastian
• Campion, Edmund
• Carew, Sir Peter
• Catholic
• Cavendish, Sir Thomas
• Cecil, Sir Robert (First Earl of Salisbury)
• Cecil, Sir William (Lord Burghley)
• Chancellor, Richard
• Cheke, Sir John
• Cleves, Anne of
• Colet, John
• Cornish Rebellion, The
• Coverdale, Miles
• Cranmer, Thomas
• Cromwell, Thomas (First Earl of Essex)
• Davis, John
• Debasement
• Dee, Dr John
• Devereux, Robert (Second Earl of Essex)
• Diet
• Dissolution of the Monasteries
• Drake, Sir Francis
• Dudley, John (Duke of Northumberland)
• Dudley, Robert (Earl of Leicester)
• Education
• Edward VI
• Effingham, Lord Howard of
• Elizabeth I
• Elizabeth of York
• Enclosures
• Essex, Earl of
• Etiquette
• Evil May Day
• Field of the Cloth of Gold
• Fisher, John
• Fitzroy, Henry (Duke of Richmond)
• Flodden, Battle of
• Foxe, Richard
• Plates
• Gardiner, Stephen
• Gerard, John (Father Gerard)
• Gilbert, Sir Humphrey
• Grenville, Sir Richard
• Gresham, Sir Thomas
• Grey, Lady Jane
• Grindal, Edmund
• Hatton, Sir Christopher
• Hawkins, Sir John
• Health and Medicine
• Henry VII
• Henry VIII
• Holbein, Hans
• Hooper, John
• Howard, Catherine
• Howard, Charles (Lord Howard of Effingham)
• Howard, Henry (Earl of Surrey)
• Howard, Thomas (Second Duke of Norfolk)
• Howard, Thomas (Third Duke of Norfolk)
• Howard, Thomas (Fourth Duke of Norfolk)
• Humanism
• Ireland
• Jesuits
• Kett’s Rebellion
• Latimer, Hugh
• Margaret, Queen of Scots
• Marlowe, Christopher
• Marriage
• Mary Tudor
• Mary I
• Mary, Queen of Scots
• Mary Rose
• More, Sir Thomas
• Morton, John
• Mountjoy, Lord
• Norfolk, Second Duke of
• Norfolk, Third Duke of
• Norfolk, Fourth Duke of
• Northern Rebellion
• Northumberland, Duke of
• Parker, Matthew
• Parliament
• Parr, Catherine
• Pilgrimage of Grace
• Pinkie Cleugh, Battle of
• Pole, Reginald
• Poor Laws
• Population
• Prayer Book Rebellion
• Protestant
• Puritan
• Ralegh, Sir Walter
• Reformation
• Renaissance
• Rich, Sir Richard
• Ridley, Nicholas
• Ridolfi Plot
• Roanoke
• Seymour, Edward (Duke of Somerset)
• Seymour, Jane
• Seymour, Sir Thomas
• Shakespeare, William
• Sidney, Sir Philip
• Simnel, Lambert
• Solway Moss, Battle of
• Somer, Will
• Somerset, Duke of
• Spanish Armada
• Spenser, Edmund
• Sport and Leisure
• Star Chamber
• Suffolk, Duke of
• Surrey, Earl of
• Sweating Sickness
• Throckmorton Plot
• Tower of London
• Tyndale, William
• Tyrone’s Rebellion
• Vergil, Polydore
• Walsingham, Sir Francis
• Warbeck, Perkin
• Warham, William
• War of the Rough Wooing
• Wars of the Roses
• Wentworth, Peter
• Whitgift, John
• Wolsey, Thomas
• Wyatt’s Rebellion
• Sources
• Back cover