No period in British history retains more resonance and mystery than the sixteenth century. Here, the author sees the key to the Tudor world as religion - the new world of Protestantism and its battle with the the old world of uniform Catholicism. schovat popis
A talented young historian breathes life into the terrors and grandeurs of Britain's most fascinating age during the rule of the Tudors, 1485-1603. Halftones & maps throughout.
"Thomas Wyatt was the first modern voice in English poetry. Revered at the court of Henry VIII, his poetry held a mirror to its secret, capricious world, alluding darkly to events that it might be death to describe. Thought to be the lover of Anne Boleyn, Wyatt was also the devoted 'slave' of Katherine of Aragon, and in the Tower, he was both betrayer and betrayed.