The Man on a Donkey Author:H.F.M. Prescott "...Against a shifting panorama of Tudor England,...[Prescott] charts the careers of five people: Robert Aske,a Yorkshire squire...;a girl who loves him...;a carter's son, turned uneasy priest; the fiery and handsome Prioress of Marrack; and Thomas, Lord Darcy, a gnarled aristocrat lost in the new-style Renaissance intrigue at court. ...one of t... more »he most eventful and terrifying periods of English history..."« less