Elizabeth I was a Tudor queen who ruled England from 1558 - 1603. She was the daughter of Henry VIII, and the final Tudor monarch. Her reign has often been described as a ‘Golden Age’ of ...

Experts believe its sophistication reflected the growing skill of royal portraiture in Renaissance England, where effigies were typically carried at royal funerals between the 14th and 17th centuries.

Essential if you want to show you're on the up.' Bear in mind that Elizabethan England is, on average, two degrees colder than you're used to, with very cold snaps in the 1570s and the 1590s.

David Glimp specializes in Renaissance English literature ... He is the author of Increase and Multiply: Governing Cultural Reproduction in Early Modern England (Minnesota, 2003), and the co-editor of ...