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10 best books like The Elizabethan World Picture (Eustace Mandeville Wetenhall Tillyard): The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age, The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature, Shakespearean Tragedy, Shakespeare of London, The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe, Tudor England, Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century England, Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare, The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition, The Great Chain of Being: A Study of the History of an Idea

The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age
AuthorFrances A. Yates
ISBN0415254094
It is hard to overestimate the importance of the contribution made by Dame Frances Yates to the serious study of esotericism and the occult sciences. To her work can be attributed the contemporary understanding of the occult origins of much of Western scientific thinking, indeed of Western civilization...
The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature
AuthorC.S. Lewis
ISBN0521477352
To me, this might be C. S. Lewis' best book. I will have to cop to not really liking the Narnia books (too allegorical and those British schoolchildren are pretty annoying), and while I do quite like his "Space Trilogy" I think that Lewis was much better as a writer of academic non-fiction than he was as a...
Shakespearean Tragedy
AuthorA.C. Bradley
"A.C. Bradley put Shakespeare on the map for generations of readers and students for whom the plays might not otherwise have become 'real' at all" writes John Bayley in his foreword to this edition of Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth.

Approaching...
Shakespeare of London
AuthorMarchette Gaylord Chute
ISBN0525470018
Marchette Chute's magnificent and unique account of Shakespeare's life and times, based solely on contemporary documents, emphasizes Shakespeare's life as a working member of the London theatre – as an actor, a director, a producer, a playwright and theatre owner. But of almost equal importance...
The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe
AuthorCharles Nicholl
ISBN0226580245
In 1593 the brilliant but controversial young playwright Christopher Marlowe was stabbed to death in a Deptford lodging house. The circumstances were shady, the official account—a violent quarrel over the bill, or "recknynge"—has been long regarded as dubious.

Here, in a tour de force...
Tudor England
AuthorJohn Guy
ISBN0192852132
John Guy here provides the most complete narrative history of Tudor England in more than 30 years. A compelling account of political and religious developments from the advent of the Tudors in the 1460s to the death of Elizabeth I in 1603, his authoritative study discusses the far-reaching changes...
Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century England
AuthorKeith Thomas
ISBN0195213602
Astrology, witchcraft, magical healing, divination, ancient prophecies, ghosts, and fairies were taken very seriously by people at all social and economic levels in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. Helplessness in the face of disease and human disaster helped to perpetuate this...
Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare
AuthorStephen Greenblatt
ISBN0226306593
Renaissance Self-Fashioning is a study of sixteenth-century life and literature that spawned a new era of scholarly inquiry. Stephen Greenblatt examines the structure of selfhood as evidenced in major literary figures of the English Renaissance—More, Tyndale, Wyatt, Spenser, Marlowe, and...
The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition
AuthorM.H. Abrams
ISBN0195014715
It's the first time I've had this reaction when reading an 'academic' book: awe and envy. I usually have 2 stock reactions: 1. interesting, but the author's argument was screwed in A and B manner and 2. how did this guy even get his phd?! in a cereal box!?

M.H. Abrams is too good to be anywhere near...
The Great Chain of Being: A Study of the History of an Idea
AuthorArthur O. Lovejoy
ISBN0674361539
From later antiquity down to the close of the eighteenth century, most philosophers and men of science and, indeed, most educated men, accepted without question a traditional view of the plan and structure of the world. In this volume, which embodies the William James lectures for 1933, Arthur O. Lovejoy...
The Great Tradition: George Eliot, Henry James, Joseph Conrad (Pelican)
AuthorF.R. Leavis
ISBN0140214879

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references,...
Birth, Marriage, and Death: Ritual, Religion, and the Life Cycle in Tudor and Stuart England
AuthorDavid Cressy
ISBN0198207883
From childbirth and baptism through to courtship, weddings, and funerals, every stage in the lifecycle of Tudor and Stuart England was accompanied by ritual. Even under the Protestantism of the reformed Church, the spiritual and social dramas of birth, marriage, and death were graced with elaborate...
Henry VIII
AuthorJ.J. Scarisbrick
ISBN0520011309
This was a stunning book, from J.J. Scarisbrick's forward, to the death of Henry VIII and his funeral. It is so well written that I scarcely noticed the ultimate integrity of its scholarly bona fides, but they were there when I called them to mind and investigated. Because of its wonderful style existing...
The World of Odysseus
AuthorMoses I. Finley
ISBN1590170172
The World of Odysseus is a concise and penetrating account of the society that gave birth to the Iliad and the Odyssey--a book that provides a vivid picture of the Greek Dark Ages, its men and women, works and days, morals and values. Long celebrated as a pathbreaking achievement in the social history...
The Magic Circle of Rudolf II: Alchemy and Astrology in Renaissance Prague
AuthorPeter Marshall
ISBN0802715516
Rudolf II—Habsburg heir, Holy Roman Emperor, king of Hungary, Germany, and the
Romans—is one of history's great characters, and yet he remains largely an unknown figure. His reign (1576–1612) roughly mirrored that of Queen Elizabeth I of England, and while her famous court is widely recognized...
The Pope and the Heretic: The True Story of Giordano Bruno, the Man Who Dared to Defy the Roman Inquisition
AuthorMichael White
ISBN0060933887
Giordano Bruno challenged everything in his pursuit of an all-embracing system of thought. This not only brought him patronage from powerful figures of the day but also put him in direct conflict with the Catholic Church. Arrested by the Inquisition and tried as a heretic, Bruno was imprisoned, tortured,...
The Plantagenet Chronicles
AuthorElizabeth Hallam
ISBN1555840183
From the Introduction: The foundations of Plantagenet success were laid by a line of obscure castellans in the Loire Valley who, in the tenth century, rose to become counts of Anjou.

Opening: Part1: ORIGINS OF THE ANGEVIN DYNASTY: The fortunes of the house of Anjou were founded on the prowess...
Art of the Renaissance
AuthorPeter Murray
ISBN0500200084
The Renaissance began in Italy, but it grew out of European civilization, with roots in Antiquity, in Christian dogma, and in Byzantium. The artistic ferment which had taken hold of Florence by 1420 was also reflected in the regional schools of Siena, Umbria, Mantua and Rome; and the new ideas spread...
The Uses of Literacy
AuthorRichard Hoggart
ISBN0765804212
This pioneering work examines changes in the life and values of the English working class in response to mass media. First published in 1957, it mapped out a new methodology in cultural studies based around interdisciplinarity and a concern with how texts-in this case, mass publications-are stitched...
Worldly Goods: A New History of the Renaissance
AuthorLisa Jardine
ISBN0393318664
In this provocative and wholly absorbing work, Lisa Jardine offers a radical interpretation of the Renaissance, arguing that the creation of culture during that time was inextricably tied to the creation of wealth — that the expansion of commerce spurred the expansion of thought. As Jardine boldly...
Robin Hood
AuthorJ.C. Holt
ISBN0500250812
I love any book that is said to be "the last word" in anything and I love books guaranteed to piss off people who have no better way to spend their time than arguing about fictional characters and how they're really not fictional at all.
This book satisfied me on both counts. It's pretty definitive and...
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