16th century

Illustrations and text trace the use of martial arts from the early fifteenth to the late seventeenth centuries and explain the significance of martial arts in Renaissance education and everyday life.

Traces the lives and loves of the extraordinary family of English kings and queens, the Tudors, from the time when Henry VII came to the throne to the death of Elizabeth I.

The discovery by a boy servant in sixteenth-century Scotland that a kitchen maid is a witch leads to the disclosure of a plot to murder King James I.

"[A] dual-period narrative [which] ... blends a haunting supernatural thriller with the vivid history of Tudor London, a place where monks are being executed, Jews have been banished, and the power of Henry VIII and Thomas Cromwell reaches into every corner of the kingdom"--Dust jacket flap.

Describes the causes, events, and aftermath of the battle in which the smaller English fleet defeated the great Spanish Armada in 1588.