So Great a Prince

Large Print
(368 Pages)
Product Number: LP3868
Released: 01 Jul, 2016
Business Term: Purchase
ISBN: #9781510034631
Publisher: W F Howes
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Description

In 1509, Henry VII was succeeded by his son Henry VIII, second monarch of the house of Tudor. But this is not the familiar Tudor world of Protestantism and playwrights. Decades before the Reformation, ancient traditions persist: boy bishops, pilgrimage, Corpus Christi pageants, the jewel-decked shrine at Canterbury. Lauren Johnson tells the story of 1509 not just from the perspective of king and court, but of merchant and ploughman; apprentice and laundress; husbandman and foreign worker. She looks at these early Tudor lives through the rhythms of the ritual year, juxtaposing political events in Westminster and the palaces of southeast England with the liturgical and agricultural events that punctuated the year for the ordinary people of England.

Author(s): Lauren Johnson
Original Publish Date: 01 Jul, 2016

Professional reviews

"So Great a Prince offers a fascinating glimpse of a country and people, and explores daily life in England in the year 1509. Lauren Johnson is an author and historian. She holds a Double First in History and Masters in Medieval Historical Research from Oxford University."

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