The Tudors - Hardcover

Rex, Richard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0752425889 ISBN 13: 9780752425887

Publisher: Tempus Pub Ltd, 2003

Synopsis

The Tudor Age began in August 1485 when Henry Tudor landed with 2000 men at Milford Haven intent on snatching the English throne from Richard III.
For more than a hundred years England was to be dominated by the personalities of the five Tudor monarchs, ranging from the brilliance and brutality of Henry VIII to the shrewdness and vanity of the virgin queen, Elizabeth I.

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The Tudors' claim as the most popular subject in English history is stronger than their initially flimsy claim to the English crown, established by conquest when Henry Tudor defeated Richard III in 1485. Rex duly captures the anxieties experienced by all Tudor monarchs as they sought to invest their rule with legitimacy, which lends a dynamic aspect to this analytical narrative of the dynasty. Directing himself squarely to the recreational reader of history, Rex provides the monarchs' perspectives on affairs of the realm, which saw each Tudor confronting rebellions, religious schisms, and successions. Naturally, Henry VIII and his daughter Elizabeth I, perennially producing histories such as David Starkey's Six Wives (2003), are the most significant in Rex's estimation. However, he hardly dismisses the intervening reigns of Edward VI and "Bloody" Mary I as mere footnotes in England's revolutionary transformation from a Catholic to a Protestant country. A British academic, Rex comments perceptively on both personality (particularly on Mary's and Elizabeth's positions as women in power) and policy. A high- quality introduction to the Tudor era. Gilbert Taylor
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Edition details

• Publisher: Tempus Pub Ltd
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0752425889
• ISBN 13: 9780752425887
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320