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The Tudors in Love, December 2022
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The Tudors in Love
Sarah Gristwood

Passion and Politics in the Age of England's Most Famous Dynasty

St. Martin's Press
December 2022
On Sale: December 13, 2022
400 pages
ISBN: 1250271428
EAN: 9781250271426
Kindle: B09NTJXGFJ
Hardcover / e-Book
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Why did Henry VIII marry six times? Why did Anne Boleyn have to die? Why did Elizabeth I's courtiers hail her as a goddess come to earth? The dramas of courtly love have captivated centuries of readers and dreamers. Yet too often they're dismissed as something existing only in books and song – those old legends of King Arthur and chivalric fantasy. Not so. In this ground-breaking history, Sarah Gristwood reveals the way courtly love made and marred the Tudor dynasty. From Henry VIII declaring himself as the ‘loyal and most assured servant' of Anne Boleyn to Elizabeth I's poems to her suitors, the Tudors re-enacted the roles of the devoted lovers and capricious mistresses first laid out in the romances of medieval literature. The Tudors in Love dissects the codes of love, desire and power, unveiling romantic obsessions that have shaped the history of this nation. In the #MeToo era, re-examining the history of the social codes behind modern romance has never been more vital. “Riveting, pacy… the Tudors as you've never seen them before.' ALISON WEIR

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