Elizabethan Government and Society
Eight lectures given by JOEL HURSTFIELD
Astor Professor of English History in the University of London at the University of East Anglia
2: The Structure of Society
The middle years of the sixteenth century were years of galloping inflation in England. In his second lecture Professor Hurstfield examines what effect this had not only on different sectors of the community but on the whole mental outlook of the Elizabethans. t First broadcast on January 18
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Nine programmes about the ideas and beliefs of the Elizabethans: Thursdays at 7.0 p.m.