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Lacey Baldwin Smith

Born

in Princeton, New Jersey, The United States

January 01, 1922

Died

September 08, 2013

Genre

History, Biography

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Lacey Baldwin Smith was an historian and author specializing in 16th century England. He was the author of Henry VIII: The Mask of Royalty and Catherine Howard: A Tudor Tragedy, among other books.

Born in Princeton, New Jersey, Smith taught at Princeton University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Northwestern University. He received two Fulbright awards, two National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and other awards.He was considered one of the “big name” historians, yet his writing was considered to be as entertaining as it was erudite. He lived in Vermont during his retirement, dying at Greensboro at the age of 90.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1972.

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Lacey Baldwin Smith’s books

Average rating: 3.68 · 2,437 ratings · 266 reviews · 52 distinct works • Similar authors

	English History Made Brief, Irreverent and Pleasurable 3.64 avg rating — 1,775 ratings — published 2006 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	This Realm of England 1399-1688 (History of England, vol. 2) 3.66 avg rating — 174 ratings — published 1966 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Elizabethan World 3.95 avg rating — 146 ratings — published 1967 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Henry VIII: The Mask of Royalty 3.99 avg rating — 118 ratings — published 1971 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Past Speaks: Sources and Problems in English History, Vol. 1: To 1688 by Lacey Baldwin Smith, Jean Reeder Smith 3.76 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 1981 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Elizabeth Tudor: Portrait of a queen 3.80 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 1975 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fools, Martyrs, Traitors: The Story of Martyrdom in the Western World 3.52 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 1997 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Treason in Tudor England: Politics and Paranoia 3.58 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 1986 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Horizon Book of the Elizabethan World really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1967 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Elizabeth I 3.63 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1980 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“They moved to the new centers of trade and prospered, because they lived by the standard that “conscience is a pretty thing to carry to Church,” but he who “pursueth it in fair market or shop may die a beggar.”
― Lacey Baldwin Smith, The Elizabethan World

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“A careful regulation of the economic impulses of society was considered as essential to man’s spiritual welfare as it was to his material well-being. There was a righteous price in commerce, based on considerations of morality, as well as an economic price, reflecting the laws of supply and demand.”
― Lacey Baldwin Smith, The Elizabethan World

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“Whether the Vatican by 1499 had become the sewer of the world, as it was later claimed, is debatable, but certainly religion and morality were parting company, the former degenerating into a business and the latter all but disappearing from the Church.”
― Lacey Baldwin Smith, The Elizabethan World

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What book about the Tudors or Tudor England would you like for our Group Read in August 2016?

The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison Weir

18 votes, 28.1%

Elizabeth's London: Everyday Life in Elizabethan London by Liza Picard

11 votes, 17.2%

The Constant Princess by Philippa Gregory

8 votes, 12.5%

My Lady Jane by Cynthia Hand

8 votes, 12.5%

Death and the Virgin Queen: Elizabeth I and the Dark Scandal That Rocked the Throne by Chris Skidmore

5 votes, 7.8%

The Semper Sonnet by Seth Margolis

5 votes, 7.8%

Catherine Howard: The Queen Whose Adulteries Made a Fool of Henry VIII by Lacey Baldwin Smith

2 votes, 3.1%

The Secret Voyage of Sir Francis Drake: 1577-1580 by R. Samuel Bawlf

2 votes, 3.1%

Revenge at Elsinore by John O'Donnell

2 votes, 3.1%

The Virgin's Daughter by Laura Andersen

2 votes, 3.1%

The Light in the Labyrinth by Wendy J. Dunn

1 vote, 1.6%

64 total votes

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