The England of Elizabeth: The Structure of Society

The Elizabethan Age is arguably that greatest in English history. Furthermore it isn't something dead & apart from us: it's alive & all around us. England contains the visible memorials of Elizabethan society: the houses they built; the objects they cherished; the patterns they imposed upon the very landscape. Rowse's classic study is a detailed account of that society & tradition from the lowest social class to the men & women who governed the realm.