Tudor period

Softball players should spend some time developing a base of aerobic endurance in the off-season but the most important thing to train is the ability to move explosively for a short period of time. Eating healthy as well has drinking a lot of fluids will help a player stay energized while playing. Although it is most important to train your body to do short explosive things; its also good to make sure your body can last at least two…

Thomas More's Utopia and Niccolò Machiavelli's The Prince are two extremely distinctive and contrasting products created during the Renaissance. Both the works produced by More and Machiavelli concern themselves with the fundamental issues of how society maintains itself and continues to work regardless of what occurs. The two contrasting scholars may both focus on society but yet both authors created works with exceedingly distinctive purposes behind the products. More's Utopia can be seen as a…

subject to the same kind of domestic authority that was held over other early modern women. Returning to the inference of Gouge’s original quote, the household and the state were seen as parallel to each other, in both importance and hierarchy. Both Tudor queens faced the struggle of marriage throughout their time on the throne, and the political crisis that surrounded it is another identifier of the strict monopoly men had on domestic authority. The crisis that surrounded Mary’s marriage had…

Elizabeth Tudor or Queen Elizabeth 1 as she is famously known for was born on September 7, 1533 at Greenwich Palace. She was the daughter of Henry VIII and his second wife Anne Boleyn. Henry VIII was married before Anne Boleyn and had to break the catholic tradition in order to separate from his first wife. He married Anne Boleyn in January 25, 1533 which they later found out that their marriage was null. Later in the year Anne Boleyn became pregnant and Henry VIII and everybody else thought…

Mary Tudor was queen of England and Ireland throughout her life. She was very determined when it came to getting what she thought was right. Many people did not enjoy her but others thought her skills were great when it came to ruling. Mary was a queen for five years, she reigned from 1553-1558. She is important because she was the first women to take the throne from her father. Another reason she is important is because she killed hundreds of people for not believing in her. Mary was born on…

The Renaissance was a time period in history that effectively moved the world from the dark ages into a modern era. A few very powerful families ruled England throughout this time. The most renowned family in England during the Renaissance was the Tudors. Henry VIII was one of the most well known of the Tudor line because of his many marriages, divorces, and controversial influence in the Catholic church. He liked to push the boundaries on many subjects that often ended with him in a difficult…

When someone brings up the Middle Ages in a conversation or in a history lesson, people usually think of brave and handsome knights fighting dragons and rescuing princesses from castles. Though knights were prominent in the Middle Ages, they were not the most important part of them by far. That honor goes to the authors of the Middle Ages. One of the reasons knight tales are well known is because the authors of the Middle Ages made those tales so grand. They were not just great story tellers,…

which meant Elizabeth I was now surrounded by new advisers she didn’t know if she could trust; the issue of succession which posed a threat to the Tudor dynasty. In order to assess the seriousness of these problems that Elizabeth I was facing at the end of her reign it is necessary to look at whether these problems posed a direct threat to her life, the Tudor dynasty or the legitimacy of…

cupboard and bedroom furniture which served several generations from old homes and later completed their furnishing in newer styles. The household furniture became mixed designers rather used and modified many styles taken from different time periods like Gothic, Tudor, Elizabethan; English rococo, Neoclassical and other. The most common styles of furniture during this time were gothic and…

THE RENAISSANCE The Renaissance was a period in European history from the 14th to the 17th century. It was known as a cultural bridge between the Middle Ages and modern history. It was a time of great innovations, political dissolution, religious turmoil, and remarkable literary creations. Innovations. The Renaissance was a time of celebrated innovations. Some of them include the Blast Furnace, which enabled iron to be produced in significant quantities. The Finery Forge, which enabled them…