Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII
by:
David Starkey (author)
The six wives of Henry VIII, each well researched character portrayed with racy narrative and David Starkey's unique application.Starkey draws on the letters, artefacts and documents of the period, concentrating on the rituals of diplomacy, marriage pregnancy and private religion, to give a...
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The six wives of Henry VIII, each well researched character portrayed with racy narrative and David Starkey's unique application.Starkey draws on the letters, artefacts and documents of the period, concentrating on the rituals of diplomacy, marriage pregnancy and private religion, to give a richly textured picture of daily life at the Tudor Court from a woman's point of view.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780701172985 (0701172983)
Publish date: 2003
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Pages no: 880
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Biography,
History,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Biography Memoir,
Womens,
European History,
World History,
16th Century
I despise this man. I cannot imagine what it must have been like to be in his court.
This book was really everything I look for in a non-fiction book about history. It was so engagingly written that it could have been non-fiction, but sources were all cited and deviations from accepted wisdom among Henry VIII scholars were mentioned. The story was presented chronologically, with a f...
Didn't contain any new info or insights.
At times this was a biography that was so burdened down with details and extrapolations that I kept getting bogged down. Still -- don't let that stop you! Considering how much myth, mistruth, and outright fabrications there are about the Tudors these days, this is still one of the better biographies...
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