The six wives of Henry VIII
One of the most powerful monarchs in British history, Henry VIII ruled England in unprecedented splendour. In this remarkable composite biography, Alison Weir brings Henry's six wives vividly to life, revealing each as a distinct and compelling personality in her own right. Drawing upon the rich...
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One of the most powerful monarchs in British history, Henry VIII ruled England in unprecedented splendour. In this remarkable composite biography, Alison Weir brings Henry's six wives vividly to life, revealing each as a distinct and compelling personality in her own right.
Drawing upon the rich fund of documentary material from the Tudor period, The Six Wives of Henry VIII shows us a court where personal needs frequently influenced public events and where a life of gorgeously ritualised pleasure was shot through with ambition, treason and violence.
źródło opisu: Pimplico, 1992
źródło okładki: http://alisonweir.org.uk/books/bookpages/six-wives.asp
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Format: papier
ISBN:
0712673849
Publish date: 1992 (data przybliżona)
Publisher: Pimlico
Pages no: 642
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Biography,
History,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Book Club,
Historical Fiction,
Medieval,
Biography Memoir,
Womens,
European History,
16th Century
Tudor history has pretty much always been my favourite era of any historical period ever. There's just so much drama and intrigue and the personalities were so immense, be it Henry VIII or his two daughters, Mary I and Elizabeth I. Back in November, there was a big audiobook sale over at Audible, an...
This was a fun, fascinating, and surprisingly riveting history, but I cannot in good conscience give more than 3 stars to anything with so many word-for-word repeated sentences (especially ones that so often concerned minor details like who-wore-what). Definitely a neat companion to the ubiquitous T...
I tend to read a lot of smut, and then I balance it out by reading big, heavy tomes of nonfiction. This composite biography of Henry VIII's many wives felt like the best of both worlds, since the "story" is as juicy and as engaging as historical fiction, yet also rich with pictures and quotes from p...
I’ve read some Phillipa Gregory and Hillary Mantel titles about Henry VIII and was totally entranced. Which is weird because I’m Afrikaans, live in South Africa, and never even had history at school. The only problem with the historical fiction titles, is that they only deal with one or two wives at...
I like Weir's books and love Tudor history. There is quite a bit here, but I found the work a bit drier than Weir's other books.
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