Susan Brigden

The Tudor Age

CA$190

In The Tudor Age, historian Susan Brigden brings to life the world of Henry VIII, Mary, Queen of Scots and Elizabeth I in a Folio edition superbly illustrated with colour portraiture.

● Only 10 Left in Stock

The Tudor Age

CA$190

● Only 10 Left in Stock

Book Details

Presentation Box & BindingBound in printed and blocked cloth
Blocked slipcase
Gilded top edge

Dimensions10 inches x 6¾ inches

FontSet in Poliphilus with Goudy initial drop capitals

Pages496 pages

AuthorSusan Brigden

Illustration20 full-page colour portraits

Publication Date15/03/2022

Editor's Notes

From Henry Tudor to Elizabeth, the Tudors bestride British history like no other royal dynasty. Written by one of the period’s most gifted chroniclers, The Tudor Age has been hailed as the most authoritative and masterly account of their 118-year reign. Susan Brigden looks afresh at the familiar story of kings and queens, courtly intrigue and plot, foregrounding the religious turmoil of the English Reformation that ‘shattered a world of shared belief’. She brings to life an age of old enmities and new horizons – of warring Irish chieftains and the Spanish Armada, the imaginative achievements of More, Marlowe and Shakespeare, and the lure of New World riches. There is much, too, about Tudor society, from marriage, childbirth and family life to the plight of paupers and fear of witchcraft. Wonderfully illustrated with fine portraiture, The Tudor Age is a gripping introduction to ‘the experience of those who lived in that time – of their certainties and uncertainties, hopes and terrors.’

About the Author

Susan Brigden is a British historian of the Tudor period, a Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford, and of the British Academy. Until her retirement in 2016, she was Reader in Early Modern History at the University of Oxford. She was educated at the University of Manchester and Clare College, Cambridge. She is the author of two other books, London and the Reformation and Thomas Wyatt: The Heart’s Forest, which won the Wolfson History Prize and was acclaimed as an extraordinarily vivid biography of England’s great Renaissance poet.

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