The Tudors : the complete story of England's most notorious dynasty / G.J. Meyer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Meyer, G. J., 1940-

Contributor:

Richard Wakeman Collection of Tudor History (University of Pennsylvania)

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tudor, House of.

Great Britain--History--Tudors, 1485-1603.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--Politics and government--1485-1603.

Monarchy--Great Britain--History--16th century.

Monarchy.

Politics and government.

Genre:

History.

Penn Provenance:

Wakeman, Rollin (donor)

Physical Description:

xxvi, 623 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, map ; 21 cm

Edition:

Bantam books Trade paperback ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Bantam Books Trade Paperbacks, 2011.

Summary:

Meyer's fresh storytelling ability breathes new life into the history of the Tudor family and Tudor England's precarious place in world politics, the critical role religion played in government, and the blossoming of English theater and literature.

Contents:

Family tree

A Tudor timeline

August 22, 1485: the Battle of Bosworth, an exile returns

An Excess of Good Fortune: 1485-1532

The luck of Henry Tudor: the king who had (almost) everything

The King's great matter: his pursuit of an annulment and of Anne Boleyn

Frustration and embarrassment: Queen Catherine resists, and finds support

Radical departures: moving the line between church and state

Another way devised: a policy of winning by intimidation and terror

A revolution in the making: Henry raises the stakes

A thunderbolt falls: the royal ultimatum

Submission: the archbishop of Canterbury surrenders

Consummation: the king beds, then weds, Anne Boleyn

Monster: 1533-1547

First blood: the destruction of the nun of Kent

Supremacy: Parliament acknowledges the king's new powers

"We will all die" : destruction of the charterhouse monks, and of John Fisher "Preserve my friends from such favors" : trial and execution of Thomas More; the monastic visits

All but Godlike: Anne Boleyn is replaced; the smaller monasteries destroyed

Rebellion and betrayal: explosion, the pilgrimage of Grace; King Henry gets his son

The last of Henry: three more wives, money trouble, a final torrent of killings

A King too Soon and a Queen too Late: 1547-1558

A new beginning: evangelicals triumph; Edward Seymour assumes command

England's second reformation: Henry VIII's church dismantled; the fall of Seymour

A revolution and a coup: the rise of John Dudley, the death of Edward VI, the brief reign of Jane Grey

Another new beginning: Mary I and the restoration of the old religion

And another early end: dreams turn to dust

Survivor: 1558-1603

Yet another new beginning: the return to Protestantism

The succession, again: Robert Dudley and the hope for an heir

A torrent of miseries: religion, the succession, and Mary, Queen of Scots

Actions, reactions, provocations: trouble in France, trouble with Spain; rebellion in the Netherlands

A horrific tangle and war at last: years of meddling produce war in the Netherlands

The last favorite: the rise of Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex

A seat at the table: the rivalry of Essex and Robert Cecil

The last act: the fall of Essex; the dismal final decade of the Tudor Age.

Notes:

Originally published in hardcover in the U.S. by Delacorte Press in 2010.

Includes A reader's guide.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 579-594) and index.

ISBN:

9780385340779

038534077X

OCLC:

728895918