Winter king : the dawn of Tudor England
/ Thomas Penn.
- London : Penguin , c2011, 2012.
- xxi, 448 p., [8] p. of plates : col. ill., maps, port. ; 20 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 409-428) and index.
Prologue: Red rose, avenger of the white -- Blood and roses -- Not a drop of doubtful royal blood -- Richmond -- He seeks in all places to destroy me -- Now must you supply the mother's part also -- Change of worlds -- No sure way -- Council learned -- Our second treasure -- Null and void -- This day came De la Pole -- New heaven, new earth -- A state of avarice -- Extraordinary justice -- Courage to be bold -- Savage harshness made complete -- The art of dying -- Rich, ferocious, thirsting for glory.
Thomas Penn re-creates an England that is both familiar and very strange, a country medieval yet modern, in which honor and chivalry mingle with espionage, realpolitik, high finance, and corruption. It is the story of the transformation of a young, vulnerable boy, Prince Henry, into the aggressive teenager who would become Henry VIII, and of Catherine of Aragon, his future queen, as well as of Henry VII, controlling, avaricious, paranoid, with Machiavellian charm and will to power.
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Great Britain---History---Tudors, 1485-1603 Great Britain---Kings and rulers---Biography Great Britian---History---1485-1509 Great Britian---Politics and government---1485-1509