In The World of William Byrd John Harley builds on his previous work, William Byrd: Gentleman of the Chapel Royal (Ashgate, 1997), in order to place the compose

Besides documenting the predominant presence of privileged patrons in the audience, the author discusses the shape of the privileged life, the place of the priv

The first real explorer, for the English, was Anthony Jenkinson. He sailed to Russia and set out into the unknown to discover an overland route, right across As