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The Life and Times of Thomas Stukeley (1525-78).(Book Review)
Albion, September, 2004 by Fritze, Ronald H.
Juan E. Tazon. The Life and Times of Thomas Stukeley (1525-78). Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate. 2003. Pp. viii, 282. $84.95. ISBN 0-7546-3285-7.
Sixteenth-century England was an era full of talented and not-so-talented, self-made individualists who left a greater or lesser mark on their age. Thomas Stukeley (c. 1525-1578) belongs among those who left a lesser mark and Juan E. Tazon's new book tells his story. Tazon begins his account with a survey of Stukeley's appearances in the literature of late Elizabethan and Jacobean England. Contemporary authors portrayed him as an ambitious and ...
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