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Chargement... Dangerous Days in Elizabethan Englandpar Terry Deary
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Appartient à la sérieDangerous Days (3)
From the author of HORRIBLE HISTORIES comes the third volume in Terry Deary's gritty and humorous history series for adults. The reign of Elizabeth I - a Golden Age? Try asking her subjects... Elizabethans did all they could to survive in an age of sin and bling, of beddings and beheadings, galleons and guns. Explorers set sail for new worlds, risking everything to bring back slaves, gold and the priceless potato. Elizabeth lined her coffers while her subjects lived in squalor with hunger, violence and misery as bedfellows. Shakespeare shone and yet the beggars and thieves, the doxies and bawdy baskets, kinchins and fraters scraped and cheated to survive in the shadows. These were dangerous days. If you survived the villains, and the diseases didn't get you, then the lawmen might. Pick the wrong religion and the scaffold or stake awaited you. The toothless, red-wigged queen sparkled in her jewelled dresses, but the Golden Age was only the surface of the coin. The rest was base metal. Once again, what we think we know about our history is revealed to be a mish-mash of misconceptions, glory-hogging and downright untruths as Terry Deary explodes the myths that permeate our understanding of the past - with a healthy dash of pitch-black humour. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)942.055History and Geography Europe England and Wales England 1485-1603, Tudors 1558-1603, Elizabeth IÉvaluationMoyenne:
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The author is the creator of the tv show Horribly Histories a truly funny show, but this book is full of what I'd identify as "dad jokes", in that he likes asides and footnotes that fall flat.
Throughout the text are boxes of quotes, and some are quotes from a witness or other relevant person to the episode being discussed, but most are not, they're quotes that were made about other events by people who weren't speaking of Elizabethan England, such as Charlie Chaplin or Thoreau. Seemed like padding, really.
That isn't to say this isn't full of interesting information, and it's formatted in a way that even someone who doesn't read history wouldn't be intimidated. Sprinkled throughout, there's also a selection of asides by a doctor who explains exactly what "drawing and quartering" means and how diseases such as typhus or tuberculosis destroy the body. ( )