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"* "Susan Brigden has produced a highly readable, compulsive work that will surely take its place amongst the chief secondary sources for the period" Alison Weir * "This is history in the best sense, a doorway flung wide to a whole century of our past, an all-embracing panorama which sweeps the reader along... an extraordinary achievement written by somebody who unashamedly believes that history has a place not just in the academic's study but in the wider world of everyman". - Sir Roy Strong."
John Adamson, Financial Times, 1st October 2000
'For anyone who wants to encounter these worlds of the Tudor past, there is currently no better guide than Susan Brigden's superb new book.'
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is not a strictly chronological history of the Tudor age and its events. Instead, Susan Brigden takes a more thematic approach - concentrating on England's attempted subjugation of Ireland and the religious and social changes of this period. The author succeeds admirably. Of all Tudor history books, "New Worlds, Lost Worlds" most captures the spirit of the age and Tudor life.
This book should be read alongside G.R. Elton's England Under the Tudors, which provides background and analysis to the key characters and events of the Tudor age.
This book should be read alongside G.R. Elton's England Under the Tudors, which provides background and analysis to the key characters and events of the Tudor age.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Written for ordinary people (like me) to read. It gently leads one through the changes in religion, politics and statehood to give a real understanding of where British culture comes from and helped me to understand the "Irish problem" for the first time. Buy it , wonderful read. Loved it.
10 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
If you subscribe to the Great Person theory of history this book will appeal greatly. On the other hand if hold that history is shaped by economic and political structures then this book may disappoint. There is little economic analysis of trade and industry, and very little pan European comparative analysis. At times the book struck me as if it had fallen out of a 19th century library.
Ireland is characterised as unromantically wild, savage and preyed upon by treacherous Irish chieftains. A land of fickle political alliances and despotic opportunism. Undoubtably much of this is true but the analysis is rooted almost entirely in terms of the impact of the anglo Norman invasion.
The Tudors and their courts are equally portrayed as ruthless tyrannical lairs turning largely on the whims of a sovereign. The picture that emerges of the common people is profundly unenviable.
At the end of the book, I was left wondering how on Earth anyone could espouse the antidemocratic institution of monarchism. In modern terms Henry VIII comes across as positively Hitlerian, a trend continued under Elizabeth with the plantations of Ireland which provided the 16th century with its own largely unacknowledged Holocaust.
Worth reading if only to remind ourselves that democracy is something to cherish otherwise political depravity will gain the ascendant.
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