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The Lisle Letters: An Abridgement
The Lisle Letters: An Abridgement
edited by Muriel St. Clare Byrne foreword by Hugh Trevor-Roper selected by Bridget Boland
University of Chicago Press, 1983 Paper: 978-0-226-08810-5 | Cloth: 978-0-226-08800-6 Library of Congress Classification DA335.L5L572 1983 Dewey Decimal Classification 942.05
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
In a one-volume abridgement, these sixteenth-century letters paint a magnificent portrait of family life amidst the intrigue, terror, and politics of the court of Henry VIII. The culmination of Lord Lisle's imprisonment in the Tower of London.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Muriel St. Clare Byrne (1895-1983) worked for decades to create the six-volume edition of the sixteenth-century letters of Arthur Plantagenet, Lord Lisle. She was a lecturer at Oxford University, the University of London, and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. She was the author or editor of several other books about sixteenth-century England, and also co-authored, with her friend Dorothy L Sayers, the play Busman’s Honeymoon.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
List of Illustrations
Foreword by Hugh Trevor-Roper
Preface to the Selection
1. Introduction
2. Calais 1533-1535
3. Everyday Life in Calais 1533-1535
4. Politics and Religion 1533-1535
5. Educating the Children
6. Estate and Legal Business 1533-1535
7. Glimpses of the Court 1533-1535
8. Politics and Religion 1536
9. Calais 1536
10. Careers for the Children
11. Estate and Legal Business 1536
12. Everyday Life in Calais 1536-1540
13. People Apart
14. Glimpses of the Court 1536-1540
15. Calais 1537-1538
16. Later News of the Children
17. Estate and Legal Business 1537-1539
18. Calais 1539-1540
19. The Botolf Conspiracy
20. Two More Years
21. Epilogue
Index
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