The Tudors History of a Dynasty [Hardcover]

David Loades provides a masterful overview of this formative period of British history.? Exploring the reign of each monarch within the framework of the dynasty, he unpacks the key questions surrounding the monarchy;? the relationship between church and the state, development of government, war and foreign policy, the question of Ireland and?the issue of succession in Tudor politics.
Loades considers the recent scholarship on the dynasty as a whole, paying particular attention to Henry VIII, Elizabeth I and Mary Tudor. He also considers how recent revisionist history asks new questions of their political and personal lives. This places our understanding of?the dynasty as a whole in a new light.

Preface / 1. Getting To Know the Family / 2. The Kings and Their Marriages; Henry VIII's 'Great Matter' / 3. Two Queens In Search of an Heir / 4. The Monarch and the Realm; The Uses of Parliament / 5. Noble Ambitions / 6. The Tudors and Their Neighbours / 7. The Trouble With God / 8. Merchant Matters / 9.The Good Lord and His Servants / 10. The Selling of the Monarchy / Conclusion: What Did the Tudors Do For Us? / Bibliography / Index.

David Loades is one of the leading historians of the Tudor monarchy. He is the author of the definitive biography of Elizabeth's half-sister, Mary Tudor: A Life (1989), and of The Tudor Court (second edition, 2003). He is Honorary Research Professor at the University of Sheffield and Director of the British Academy John Foxe Project.