After reading Thomas Penn's Tudor England oeuvre (aka this book), I am now substantially less impressed by the imagination of George R.R. Martin because *Holy Toledo Batman* this stuff like really happened! Having been MIA from the Land of Reads and Reviews for a while, I'm admittedly not writing...
It took me a while to plough through this book. I had to take quite a few notes about some of the people involved because some of them tended to come up rather sporadically. While reading, I found myself rather annoyed at the manner in which Penn appeared to jump around with the timeline. Once I got...
I must admit that before I read this, all I really knew about Henry VII was that he came before Henry VIII and after Henry VI. The Winter King digs deeply into the unsettled origin of the Tudor period and Henry VII's precarious reign. It explores the cold avarice of the king, his dreams of dynast...
Winter King is an in-depth biography of Henry VII. I found this to be a valuable and well-written resource. It took me a while to get through it because it is so packed with information. It is a book that I will go back to many times. This was not a regurgitation of rumors and myths about Henry V...
Thomas Penn's Winter King is not really a biography of Henry VII, and more a study of what he was directing his government to do in his name. (We certainly can, and do, decide what sort of king Henry was based on what he had his government get up to, however.) The organization is curious, certain...
bookshelves: fraudio, published-2011, tudor, summer-2013, history, biography, nonfiction, under-1000-ratings Recommended to ☯Bettie☯ by: spotted on Susanna's updates Read from June 03 to 12, 2013 'Henry VII was infinitely suspicious' wrote Francis Bacon.Richard III was buried 'like a dog in a ...
So I checked this out of my local library in August. I was planning to finish my other books before starting this book, then school started and I checked out more books and..... Pretty soon, I had renewed it the maximum amount of times and I had to return it. I got to page 53 before returning it. I ...
'Henry VII was infinitely suspicious' wrote Francis Bacon.Richard III was buried 'like a dog in a ditch' said some. Due to uncertainty as to whether Richard of Shrewsbury had died in the Tower of London, or had survived, Perkin Warbeck's claim gathered some followers, whether due to real belief in h...
This is more of a 3.5 star book, but I gave it the benefit of the doubt, and plumped for 4.It covers the reign of Henry VII, from just after his battle with Richard, to his successful passing of the crown to his son Henry VIII, and the creation of the Tudor dynasty.It is very comprehensive, coverin...
I found this to be a highly readable account of the early days of the Tudor dynasty. This well researched history provides good insight into Henry VII’s machinations to maintain his hold on the crown by ruthlessly defeating his opponents and amassing great wealth at the expense of his subjects as w...
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