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Aiming to put Henry VIII and the events of his reign into context, this book offers an account of the great game of politics over which the King presided. It provides sketches of Henry's queens and insights into the character of the King himself and into other significant features of the reign of England's "triumphant monarch". The author's other books on the Tudor era include "The Struggle for Power: the Lives and Letters of the Great Tudor Dynasties".
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"Starkey has the mind of an historian but the eye of a court painter" (Peter Ackroyd The Times )
"To anyone who can savour the atmosphere of high politics, this book will make exciting reading" (Conrad Russell )
"Starkey's great innovation as a constitutional historian has been his readiness to take a closer look at the organisation of the early modern royal household" ( Times Literary Supplement )
"To anyone who savours the atmosphere of high politics, this book will make exciting reading" ( Conrad Russell )
"David Starkey brings to the task not only a mastery of institutional framework...but also skills in graphic delineation of character and an exuberant narrative panache" (R. A. Houlbrooke )
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"To anyone who can savour the atmosphere of high politics, this book will make exciting reading" (Conrad Russell )
"Starkey's great innovation as a constitutional historian has been his readiness to take a closer look at the organisation of the early modern royal household" ( Times Literary Supplement )
"To anyone who savours the atmosphere of high politics, this book will make exciting reading" ( Conrad Russell )
"David Starkey brings to the task not only a mastery of institutional framework...but also skills in graphic delineation of character and an exuberant narrative panache" (R. A. Houlbrooke )
David Starkey's brilliant overview of the great game of politics, over which Henry VIII presided. (20020425)
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- PublisherCollins & Brown
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 1855850273
- ISBN 13 9781855850279
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- Number of pages176
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