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Henry VIII : The Quest for Fame

By John Guy

Book information

Publisher
Penguin
Year
2014
ISBN
978-0-141-97713-3
ASIN
ASIN: B00O8AD3PC
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
618 kB (632559 bytes)
Series
Penguin Monarchs
Pages
128\0
Topic
History\\Memoirs, Biographies
Time added
2017-07-11 09:48:42
16th centuryBiographies & MemoirsEnglandEuropeHistoricalHistoryKing Henry VIIIKingsModern (16th-21st Centuries)RenaissanceTudors

Description

Charismatic, insatiable and cruel, Henry VIII was, as John Guy shows, a king who became mesmerized by his own legend - and in the process destroyed and remade England. Said to be a 'pillager of the commonwealth', this most instantly recognizable of kings remains a figure of extreme contradictions: magnificent and vengeful; a devout traditionalist who oversaw a cataclysmic rupture with the church in Rome; a talented, towering figure who nevertheless could not bear to meet people's eyes when he talked to them. In this revealing new account, John Guy looks behind the mask into Henry's mind to explore how he understood the world and his place in it - from his isolated upbringing and the blazing glory of his accession, to his desperate quest for fame and an heir and the terrifying paranoia of his last, agonising, 54-inch-waisted years.

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