MICHAEL FLEMING focused his instrument-making career principally on viols and was awarded a PhD by the Open University in 2001 for his research into English viol-making. Since 2005 he has produced the leading international journal of organology, The Galpin Society Journal, and he was Chair of the Viola da Gamba Society from 1997-2017. His recent publications include Early English Viols: Instruments, Makers and Music (Routledge, 2017), co-authored with John Bryan. CHRISTOPHER PAGE is a Fellow of the British Academy, a Member of the Academia Europaea, Emeritus Professor of English in the University of Cambridge and from October 2014 until May 2018 was Gresham Professor of Music at Gresham College, London (founded 1597). An Emeritus Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, he holds the Dent Medal of the Royal Musical Association awarded for outstanding services to musicology.

• List of IllustrationsForewordAcknowledgementsNote to the ReaderAbbreviationsIntroducing the Eglantine TableThe Table: models and artistic contextBotany, the Table and Hardwick New HallThe playing cards and gaming boardsThe writing implementsThe music in staff notationThe book of lute tablature'A full and lively pourtraiture': The Table as evidence for Tudor musical instrumentsThe bowed instruments and bowsThe gittern or guitarThe citternThe luteThe harpThe wind instrumentsThe Table and the music of the 1560sPipers, Fiddlers and the Musical Lives of the MajorityTables of the MindAppendix 1: The renovation of the Eglantine Table by Tankerdale Ltd, 1996Appendix 2: The Table in the context of furnishings in Bess of Hardwick's housesGlossaryList of ContributorsSelect BibliographyIndex

The book is beautifully produced [...] copiously illustrated throughout [...] the book represents a major contribution to knowledge of the cultural history of England during the early years of Elizabeth I's reign.