Buy this book on-line LOADES, DAVID - General Editor: : Chronicles of the TUDOR KINGSUK.SURREY.BRAMLEY BOOKS,1996. ISBN 1858335787.
UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj,
rear inner flap dw/dj slightly creased.
Pictorial colour decorated,laminated boards,design repeated to dw/dj.UK,Qrto HB +dw/dj,1st edn,256pp includes b/w+colour illus and maps,guide to Peers,a glossary, a bibliography and an index.
The Tudor family was suddenly thrust onto
the throne when in 1488 Henry VII seized the Crown of England from his distant relative,the much-maligned Richard III, on the battlefield at Bosworth,ending more than four decades of civil strife.Henry Tudor was to prove a prudent monarch who, with a firm hand, laid down the foundations of Tudor despotism in order to
heal his war-torn kingdom.By the time of his death in 1509 he had virtually put an end to the private armies and wars of the nobility which had been a blight on the country's political and cultural progress for centuries, the austere Henry left a prosperous realm and a full treasury.All this was to prove irresistible to his son,
the magnetic, larger-than-life figure of Henry VIII, who squandered this fortune on
vainglorious and expensive wars with France,on jewellery,clothes and court entertainment,and on his six wives,and when the coffers were bare in the 1530's was to replenish them with the massive assets of the monastries and priories which were dissolved by Parliament during the Reformation.Edward VI's short reign highlights the political machinations of regents Somerset and Warwick while they grappled with the social,economic and political discontent that enveloped the country.Eye-witness accounts describe in vivid detail events as they unfold,bring to life the fascinating detail,the splendour and pageantry of this extraordinary period.More than 80 short essays,written by a team of leading authorities and lavishly illustrated in colour and b/w,provide background information on the people,politics, manners,mores and customs of this formative English era.
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