London in the Time of the Tudors

A comprehensive survey of the city during the Tudor era, tracing political and religious change through sketches of successive sovereigns and accounts of the Dissolution, Reformation, and martyrdoms. The narrative reconstructs Elizabethan streets, institutions, and civic life using contemporary evidence and maps, and examines municipal government, trade, and notable literary and artistic figures. Detailed chapters describe everyday practices — manners, food, dress, apprenticeships, inns, theatres, soldiers, poverty, crime, and punishment — while appendices and illustrations supply documentary and topographical support to evoke the city’s social and cultural fabric.