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Tudor England: A History
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A compelling, authoritative account of the brilliant, conflicted, visionary world of Tudor England
When Henry VII landed in a secluded bay in a far corner of Wales, it seemed inconceivable that this outsider could ever be king of England. Yet he and his descendants became some of England’s most unforgettable rulers, and gave their name to an age. The story of the Tudor monarchs is as astounding as it was unexpected, but it was not the only one unfolding between 1485 and 1603.
In cities, towns, and villages, families and communities lived their lives through times of great upheaval. In this comprehensive new history, Lucy Wooding lets their voices speak, exploring not just how monarchs ruled but also how men and women thought, wrote, lived, and died. We see a monarchy under strain, religion in crisis, a population contending with war, rebellion, plague, and poverty. Remarkable in its range and depth, Tudor England explores the many tensions of these turbulent years and presents a markedly different picture from the one we thought we knew.
When Henry VII landed in a secluded bay in a far corner of Wales, it seemed inconceivable that this outsider could ever be king of England. Yet he and his descendants became some of England’s most unforgettable rulers, and gave their name to an age. The story of the Tudor monarchs is as astounding as it was unexpected, but it was not the only one unfolding between 1485 and 1603.
In cities, towns, and villages, families and communities lived their lives through times of great upheaval. In this comprehensive new history, Lucy Wooding lets their voices speak, exploring not just how monarchs ruled but also how men and women thought, wrote, lived, and died. We see a monarchy under strain, religion in crisis, a population contending with war, rebellion, plague, and poverty. Remarkable in its range and depth, Tudor England explores the many tensions of these turbulent years and presents a markedly different picture from the one we thought we knew.
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Additional information
| Publisher | Yale University Press (26 Sept. 2023) |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Paperback | 720 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 0300273320 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0300273328 |
| Dimensions | 1.27 x 0.4 x 1.97 cm |
by Amazon Customer
If you enjoy history, especially tudor, then this is the book to read. Gives full coverage of life in tudor times, what was happening to the little man in the street as well as the monarchs. A fascinating read
by John Stevens
Great piece of academic research, written in a style making it easy to read and understand, can’t praise this book high enough.
by davidmcewen
Very good for real historians and rhe general reader. Very well structured inti chapters which alternate between political and economic and social history
by charles whitworth
bought for my mother as Christmas. She was happy.
by ManofWords
This is an excellent single-volume history of the Tudor period in England. It takes a remarkably positive view of Henry VII, Henry VIII and Mary I taking their religious views seriously and showing how they influenced the ways in which they ruled. It is marred by an unduly negative view of the state of the Church in England during the reigns of Edward VI and Elizabeth I, by an uncritical acceptance of the roseate view of the late medieval church based on Eamon Duffy’s The Stripping of the Altars and subsequent works of the same school and by an assumption that her readership will share a set of woke assumptions about the past so that much that should be obvious to any reasonably educated reader is explained as if it were something which could be expected to be unknown to the reader. Even with these faults, it is one of the finest works of modern history I have read.
by Amazon Customer
Very interesting look at what tudor history was like for the less famous characters that we all know
by JOHN MURRELL
This was an excellent historical study disposing all the mistaken views of the Tudors I had been taught at school and accepted more than half a century ago; a completely fresh and revealing piece of work, an eye-opener on a significant age in our nation’s history,
by john taggart
This is a brilliantly researched and well written book. Anecdotes and details are illuminating and serve to illustrate a point whether it is about Tudor monarchs or the beliefs and fears that motivated ordinary people.
Lucy Wooding is at pains to avoid the perspecitve of hindsight and succeeds in helping the reader enter the insecurites of the time as they happen.
She is irritating when she strives to redress commonly held views – Henry V11 was mean/ Mary was bloody etc. I wish she didn’t protest quite so much. But it is not always the case that she is answering the commonly held views of previous historians of the age – often she just paints a fascinating picture of where Tudor monarch were coming from and what mattered to their subjects.
Not a book to be read at one sitting, but well worth having on one’s shelf to be dipped into and enjoyed at leisure.