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Author:	Annie Bullen
Title:	The Little Book Of The Tudors
Publisher:	The History Press
Country:	UK
Date:	2016
Format:	Hardcover
Genre:	History
ISBN13 / Barcode:	9780750955751
First Published:	2013
Rating:	2.0 Rate
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	1 Owns
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ppint. 20th Nov 2021		Rated 2/10 excessively hagialogical - especially as very sparse, withal - even fawning account of the franco-welsh dynasty put on the throne of england by a combination of mostly french force of arms, the tiny rump of the die-hard lancastrian unreconciled with richard III, and the treachery of one turncoat, a man who owed his survival and that of the noblewoman he married to richard's clemency - - a dynasty of men - and a woman - so voraciously power- and money-grabbing, and so paranoid, they wiped out all of their remaining near, and even distant relatives, overthrew roman (vatican) control of the church in england, grabbing it - and all the churches accumulated wealth, land, patronage and power for themselves, and were so virulently and rabidly ''christian fundamentalist'' they encouraged and even promoted the slaying of thousands for the religious crime of not being sufficiently narrow-mindedly protestant, or of not being sufficiently narrow-mindedly roman catholic, and whose abuse of their powers was so egregious - - that it seems a major miracle that they eventually produced a ruling queen who was head of the english church - - yet refused to condemn loyal catholics without evidence of treason°; who was so skilled a political operator her most serious critics in parliament insisted, or tried to insist, that she marry for the good of the realm, managed to keep the two major european powers so greatly in competition with one another, they were ultimately prepared to tolerate her and england's independence, and outright piracy - philip of spain, admittedly, only after the failure of his grand armada - and all this upon a shoestring budget grudgingly voted her by parliament, and whilst - mostly - making good her declaration of tolerance, accepting the official minimum outward conformity with anglicanism (the compromise english church which could accept forms of worship ranging from ''high church'', with some incense, through ''low church'', with fire and brimstone sermons, and lacking most hymns) with the declaration that she would not seek to make a window into men's souls. - but instead of following, even in a simplified outline, the story of the three or four power struggles that were running throughout tudor times - and occasionally, running wild - this book gives little more than a clichéed and honeyed - or rather, sickly sugared - synopsis of the official tudor apologists' and outright proselytists' propaganda machine pr releases: - and worse, it's boring. - avoid. ° - save once; and the undoubtedly loyal englishman in question insisted on standing up to be counted an enemy by elizabeth's parliament 7 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?



ppint. 1st Nov 2021		the history press h/cvr second printing cover (d-j) art by chris west (credited on d-j rear flap; but endpapers' art is also credited, and there is none such on this edition's endpapers.) cover (d-j) price £9.99 160pp. including titles, indica, 2pp. introduction etc, end 2pp. brief further reading note, advertising; sewn in signatures and bound with endpapers between navy coloured cloth-covered boards, title, author and publisher logo blocked in gold on spine

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