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  • Piety and Politics in Britain, 14th–15th Centuries

    The Essays of John A.F. Thomson

    by John A.F. Thomson, edited by Graeme Small ...
    Series series Variorum Collected Studies
    This volume explores a range of topics during a turbulent period in British history, with particular emphasis on political change and popular piety. On the eve of the Reformation, religious beliefs were shaped by a church which was falling under the growing control of the state, and by responses to England's one and only heretical movement, Lollardy. In political life, gradual disengagement from a ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The Hundred Years War Revisited

    by Adrian Bell, Laura Crombie, Craig Lambert, Tony Moore, Graeme Small, Craig Taylor, Andrew Ayton, Gary Baker, Rory Cox, Andy King, Gwilym Dodd ...
    Series series Problems in Focus
    The conflict between England and France in the 14th and 15th centuries never ceases to fascinate. This stimulating edited collection, inspired by the Problems in Focus volume originally published in 1971, provides a fresh and accessible insight into the key aspects of The Hundred Years War. With chapters written by leading experts in the field, based on new methodologies and recent advances in ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

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  • The Rise and Fall of Thomas Cromwell

    Henry VIII's Most Faithful Servant

    by John Schofield ...
    Thomas Cromwell rose from very humble beginnings to become Henry VIII's chief minister, his right-hand man during the English Reformation. He wielded enormous power while he retained the king's favour, but the failure of Henry's marriage to Anne of Cleves, which Cromwell had arranged, led to his swift downfall and execution. John Schofield's biography reveals that the popular image of him as a ... Read more

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  • Mary Tudor

    by David Loades ...
    Mary Tudor was the first female English sovereign a ruling queen who was not simply the consort of the king. Yet little is known about this complex woman, whose reputation for ruthlessness belied her emotional fragility and who, like her half-sister Elizabeth, had to survive from childhood in the turbulent Tudor court.David Loades explores the twisting path whereby Princess Mary, daughter of a ... Read more

    $8.59 USD

  • The Tudors

    by Richard Rex ...
    The Tudor Age began in August 1485 when Henry Tudor landed with a small force 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 fi ve Tudor monarchs, ranging from the brilliance and brutality of Henry VIII to the shrewdness and vanity of the virgin queen, Elizabeth I. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Henry VIII

    by David Loades ...
    Means to be God, and do as pleases himself Martin Luther observed. It was a shrewd comment, not merely on the divorce in which the King was then embroiled, but upon his whole career. Henry VIII was self righteous, and convinced that he enjoyed a special relationship with the Almighty, which gave him a unique claim upon the obedience of his subjects. He subdued the church, sidelined the old ... Read more

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  • Mary, Queen of Scots

    by Jenny Wormald, Anna Groundwater ...
    Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, has long been portrayed as one of history’s romantically tragic figures. Devious, naïve, beautiful and sexually voracious, often highly principled, she secured the Scottish throne and bolstered the position of the Catholic Church in Scotland. Her plotting, including probable involvement in the murder of her husband Lord Darnley, led to her flight from Scotland and ... Read more

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  • The Penguin History of Britain

    New Worlds, Lost Worlds:The Rule of the Tudors 1485-1630

    by Susan Brigden ...
    Series series Penguin History of Britain
    No period in British history today retains more resonance and mystery than the sixteenth century. The leading figures of the time have become almost mythical, and the terrors and grandeurs of Tudor Britain have resonance with even the least historically minded readers. Above all Brigden sees the key to the Tudor world as religion - the new world of Protestantism and its battle with the the old ... Read more

    $19.09 USD

  • Henry VIII

    The Tudor Tyrant

    by Richard Rex ...
    An accessible biography of Henry VIII by one of the country's leading Tudor experts. The future Henry VIII was born on 29 June 1491, the second son of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York. This talented, athletic and temperamental man might have proved something of a handful to his elder brother, Prince Arthur, the firstborn, had he survived to wear the crown. But Henry's life was changed forever when ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • 1536

    The Year that Changed Henry VIII

    by Suzannah Lipscomb ...
    One of the best-known figures of British history, collective memory of Henry VIII presents us with the image of a corpulent, covetous, and cunning king whose appetite for worldly goods met few parallels, whose wives met infamously premature ends, and whose religion was ever political in intent.1536 - focusing on a pivotal year in the life of the King - reveals a fuller portrait of this complex ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Thomas Cromwell

    Servant to Henry VIII

    by Professor David Loades ...
    Thomas Cromwell was a self-made lawyer who served first Cardinal Wolsey and then Henry VIII. His time with Wolsey served him well in his work for the king after the cardinal’s fall from power in 1529. Cromwell’s time in office from 1530 until his execution in 1540 was one of the most crucial periods in English history. This biography explores Cromwell’s relationship with Henry VIII and why it ... Read more

    $8.59 USD

  • Heretics and Believers

    A History of the English Reformation

    by Peter Marshall ...
    A sumptuously written people’s history and a major retelling and reinterpretation of the story of the English ReformationCenturies on, what the Reformation was and what it accomplished remain deeply contentious. Peter Marshall’s sweeping new history—the first major overview for general readers in a generation—argues that sixteenth-century England was a society neither desperate for nor allergic to ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

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