Winter King : Henry VII and the Dawn of Tudor England
de Penn, Thomas
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 1439191565
- ISBN 13
- 9781439191569
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New York: Simon & Schuster. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 2011. First Printing. Hardcover. 1439191565 . Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 448 pages .
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El Feb 12 2012, Feeney dijo:
In a "Dear Bookseller" epistle introducing his 2012 edition of WINTER KING: HENRY VII AND THE DAWN OF TUDOR ENGLAND, author Thomas Penn writes the following: "Henry VII was the first Tudor king. He is also the one Tudor monarch that we don't know, and his is the story that has until now remained untold." He held power for nearly 25 years. In many respects Henry VII "remains ... the most fascinating Tudor of them all." He proved that royal power could grow "through surveillance, commodity trading and the manipulation of money markets" in an age "in which everything was up for grabs." Secondarily, WINTER KING also dissects the not notably affectionate relationship between Henry VII and his second son and successor, Prince Henry, later King Henry VIII. *** Two men could not have been temperamentally more different. And Henry VIII ostensibly quickly tore down almost all of his father's centralizing ad hoc institutions which placed terrifying power over subjects in the the hands of the King. And yet a quarter century after coming to power as a strapping teenager, Henry VIII had destroyed the power of the Pope in England and Ireland, using revived elements of his father's system of control of his subjects and a string of villainous ministers worthy of those chosen by the first Tudor. ***If there is any thoroughly off-putting element in this well researched biography, it is the author's distinctly personal "non-timeless" at times smart Alec English. Thomas Penn's text abounds in slang and anachronistic terminology. Characters "parachute in" to events. When fearing death, Henry VII lets a little "glasnost" slip into his rule. People are "framed" for crimes they did not commit. I have found paragraphs with two or three such howlers in the space of very few words. Serious history as comic strip? -OOO-
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- Librería
- Novel Ideas Books (US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 270341
- Título
- Winter King : Henry VII and the Dawn of Tudor England
- Autor
- Penn, Thomas
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Edición
- First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 1439191565
- ISBN 13
- 9781439191569
- Editorial
- Simon & Schuster
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 2011
- Palabras clave
- 1439191565
- Catálogos del vendedor
- English History;
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