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(0)Sarah Gristwood
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Sixteenth-century Europe saw an explosion of female rule—whether they were on the throne or behind the scenes, women held unprecedented power for more than a hundred years. From Isabella of Castile, her daughter Katherine of Aragon, and her granddaughter Mary Tudor, to Catherine de Medici, Anne Boleyn, and Elizabeth Tudor, these women wielded enormous power over their territories, shaping the course of European history for over a century. At once...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books, A Member of the Perseus Books Group
Pub. Date
©2013.
Language
English
Description
To contemporaries, the Wars of the Roses?the series of dynastic conflicts that tore apart the ruling Plantagenet family in fifteenth-century England?were known collectively as a ?cousins war." The struggle that ultimately brought into being the Tudor dynasty was truly a domestic drama, as fraught and intimate as any family feud before or since. What set the Wars of the Roses apart, of course, was that there was a kingdom at stake. Since the end of...
Author
Publisher
Oneworld
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
The dramas of courtly love have captivated centuries of readers and dreamers. Yet it's too often dismissed as something which only existed in books just the usual legends of King Arthur, told and retold in thousands of ways. Not so. In this ground-breaking history, Sarah Gristwood reveals the way chivalric romance made and marred the Tudor dynasty. From Henry VIII declaring himself as the 'loyal and most assured servant' of Anne Boleyn to Elizabeth...
