Tudor And Stuart Suffolk

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This superb contribution to UK history covers topics as varied as population government the Church witch-hunting the Interregnum the Dissolution of the Monasteries & the Restoration. Throughout Suffolk the legacy of the events of the sixteenth & seventeenth centuries is still clear. In towns such as Lavenham it is there in the architecture; picturesque wool halls tell of the economic activity which sustained the county; grand houses are testament to the numerical rise of the gentry during the period; & there are many ecclesiastical monuments to the devout religious beliefs of the local population. However these surviving reminders of the period tell of only a small part of the story. In this important book which is the fruit of many years of research & writing eminent historian Dr Gordon Blackwood looks at what made Suffolk unusual comparing it with other English counties & how the period helped to shape the county we see today & to maintain a sense of perspective events & personalities are placed in a national context. Dr Blackwoods book uses a wide variety of sources & the text is complemented throughout by 76 illustrations & 21 maps. ` Tudor & Stuart Suffolk makes a significant contribution to the body of literature on the early modern history of England & is intended to appeal to the general reader as well as to the specialist of the period.