Tudor: The Family Story - Brossura

De Lisle, Leanda

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0701185899 ISBN 13: 9780701185893

Casa editrice: Chatto & Windus, 2013

Riassunto

The Tudors are a national obsession. From TV bodice-rippers to Booker-prize winning novels and scholarly journals, they are our favourite family in history. Their story is packed with famous and thrilling tales: Henry VIII and his wives, Elizabeth the Virgin Queen, the Princes in the Tower, the Armada. But, as Leanda de Lisle shows in this exciting new history, if we look beyond these familiar headlines, much that is new and surprising is revealed. The Tudor canon starts with Bosworth in 1485 and really gets going with Henry VIII and the Reformation. But this leaves out the obscure Welsh origins of Owain ap Maredudd ap Tudur, the man who would become known simply as 'Owen Tudor' and fall (literally) into the lap of Katherine de Valois, widow of Henry V. It leaves out the courage of Margaret Beaufort, the forgotten pregnant thirteen-year-old girl who through her son Henry VII went on to found and shape the Tudor dynasty. It casts Elizabeth as the paradigm of power, and misses the effects of Mary's influence as they were growing up. Over and above everything else, the Tudors' is a family story. A family struggling at every turn to establish their right to the throne. A family dominated by remarkable women doing everything possible to secure influence and the family line. What emerges here is a story like no other, packed with all the headlines we know and love, but which also brings to life in a completely new - and very human way - this extraordinary family and their times.

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Recensione:

"A wonderfully fluent portrait of five generations... de Lisle brings an entirely fresh feel to the Tudor story, reminding us of the one thing the monarchs themselves wanted us to forget: the sheer improbability of their royal rule" (Dan Jones, author of The Plantagenets The Times (Saturday Review))

"Violent, heady, glamorous stuff, this is popular history of a very superior sort" (Lucy Worsley Country Life)

"Vivid... Part of the interest of this book lies in the portraits of strong women" (Charles Moore Daily Telegraph)

"Tudor is a gripping account of a family riven by passionate jealousies, murderous ambitions and crippling tragedies. Leanda de Lisle is a master storyteller, and this is her greatest work yet. Immersive and exhaustively researched, Tudor is a triumph." (Amanda Foreman, author of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire)

"While many Tudor fans have been crying out for an accessible narrative history of the entire period, few historians have felt able to rise to the challenge... [de Lisle] manages to achieve that very feat... should now be the go-to book" (Chris Skidmore History Today (Books of the Year 2013))

Descrizione del libro:

A new history that reveals the family at the heart of the legend

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• Editore: Chatto & Windus
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0701185899
• ISBN 13: 9780701185893
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 560