The Tudors (A Brief Insight)

Thanks to Showtime’s hit series The Tudors, (the fourth season is set to air in Spring 2010), interest in the perennially popular Royal family is at an all-time high, and this enlightening work will appeal to the many viewers eager to learn more about them.  John Guy provides the most authoritative overview of this age in British history, offering a compelling account of the political, religious, and economic changes that occurred under Henry VIII and Elizabeth I.  In addition, Guy comprehensively reassesses the reigns of Henry VII, Edward VI, and Philip and Mary.

John Guy is a leading British historian and biographer who has held posts at such prestigious universities as the University of St. Andrews, UC Berkeley, and Johns Hopkins. He has written extensively on Tudor England, and his Queen of Scots: The True Life of Mary Stuart was awarded the 2004 Whitbread Biography Award.  He is also author of A Daughter’s Love: Thomas More and His Dearest Meg.