Tudor The Family Story Author:Leanda de Lisle In an epic narrative sweeping from 1399 to the first decade of the seventeenth century, Tudor: The Family Story traces the rise and rule of the Tudor dynasty and the lives of the six Tudor monarchs in riveting detail. Brutal political instability and incessant intrigue dominated England during this era, and Leanda de Lisle unveils the personalit... more »ies, passions, and obsessions of the men and women at its epicenter.
De Lisle begins at the unlikely beginning of Tudor dynasty?with the then-shocking, much-derided marriage between Katherine of Valois, the recently widowed queen of Richard II, and Owen Tudor, a handsome Welsh commoner who, with a pirouette and a trip, landed squarely in the lap of the English Monarchy. From there she delves into the lives of each Tudor sovereign?Henry VII, Henry VIII, Edward VI, Jane Grey, Mary I, Elizabeth I? vividly describing the domestic and political dramas that shaped their reigns and the course of history, and considering them clearly and firmly in the context of their own fifteenth-century world, rather than through the post-Enlightenment lenses through which we later came to view them.
Thrilling to read and bristling with intrigue, Tudor: The Family Story offers a fresh take on a perennially fascinating period that will delight readers of Hilary Mantel, Antonia Fraser, Alison Weir, and G.J. Meyer.« less