Henry VIII (Penguin Monarchs) The Quest for Fame

Name: Henry VIII (Penguin Monarchs)
Author: John Guy

Auteur: John Guy

Taal: Engels

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Uitgever: Penguin Books Ltd

Auteur: John Guy

Engels
Paperback
9780141987323
28 juni 2018
176 pagina's

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John Guy

John Alexander Guy (born 16 January 1949) is a British historian and biographer. Born in Warragul, Victoria, Australia, Guy moved to Britain with his parents in 1952. He was educated at King Edward VII School in Lytham, and Clare College, Cambridge, where he read history, achieving a First. At Cambridge, Guy studied under the Tudor specialist Geoffrey Rudolph Elton. He was awarded a Greene Cup by Clare College and the Yorke Prize by the University of Cambridge. During his academic career, Guy has held posts at St Andrews University (where he is Honorary Professor and was sometime Vice-Principal for Research), Bristol University, UC Berkeley, Rochester and Johns Hopkins. Guy currently teaches at Cambridge University, as a fellow of Clare College, where he teaches part-time so he can devote more time to his writing and broadcasting career. Guy specializes in the history of Tudor England and has written extensively on the subject. His books have been critically acclaimed, with My Heart is My Own: the Life of Mary Queen of Scots, being awarded the 2004 Whitbread Biography Award. He is the author of A Daughter's Love: Thomas More and his daughter Meg, 2009, and Elizabeth: the forgotten years, 2016. Guy's style is one of re-assessment and evaluation; his works often involve him re-telling and re-evaluating history from a novel viewpoint. (bron: Wikipedia)

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The acclaimed Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England's rulers - now in paperback Henry VIII's reign transformed the physical and spiritual landscape of England. Magnificent, tyrannical, a strong ruler, a 'pillager of the commonwealth', this most notorious of kings remains a figure of extreme contradictions: a devout traditionalist who oversaw a cataclysmic rupture with the church in Rome; a talented, charismatic, imposing figure who nevertheless could not bear to meet people's eyes when he talked to them. In this revealing new account, John Guy explores how Henry himself understood the world and his place in it - from his sheltered and increasingly isolated upbringing and the blazing glory of his accession; to his desperate quest for recognition, fame and an heir, and the terrifying paranoia of his last, agonising, 54-inch-waisted years - and in doing so casts new light on his choice of wives and ministers, his impact on the European stage, and his extraordinary legacy.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 28 juni 2018
Aantal pagina's: 176
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Hoofdauteur: John Guy
Hoofduitgeverij: Penguin Books Ltd

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Product breedte: 113 mm
Product hoogte: 10 mm
Product lengte: 180 mm
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Verpakking breedte: 110 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 13 mm
Verpakking lengte: 175 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 107 g

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Taal: Engels
Land: Engeland
Boek, ebook of luisterboek?: Boek
Periode: ca. 1500-1800

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