Loading images...
So Great a Prince, by Lauren Johnson
€6.00

Quay Books
England, 1509. Henry VII, the first Tudor monarch, is dead; his successor, the seventeen-year-old Henry VIII, offers hope of renewal and reconciliation after the corruption and repression of the last years of his father's reign.
The kingdom Henry inherits is not the familiar Tudor England of Protestantism and playwrights. It is still more than two decades away from the English Reformation, and ancient traditions persist: boy bishops, pilgrimages, Corpus Christi pageants, the jewel-decked shrine at Canterbury.
So Great a Prince offers a fascinating portrait of a country at a crossroads between two powerful monarchs and between the worlds of the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
Historian Lauren Johnson tells the story of 1509 not just from the perspective of the young king and his court, but from the point of view of merchants, ploughmen, apprentices, laundresses, and foreign workers.
She looks at these early Tudor lives through the rhythms of annual rituals, juxtaposing political events in Westminster and the palaces of southeast England with the religious, agrarian, and social events that punctuated the lives of the people of young Henry VIII's England.
“An excellent, immersive description of 1509, the first year of Henry VIII’s kingship. A treat for anyone interested in Tudor daily life.” - Library Journal
More from Quay Books Browse Quay Books All
The Hidden River, by Storm Jameson
€7.00
The Dinosaurs Book, by John Woodward
€9.00
€21.00
57% off
A Cab at the Door, An Autobiography: Early Years, by V.S. Pritchett
€5.00
Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy, by Jostein Gaarder.
€5.00
€12.00
58% off
Big Week: The Biggest Air Battle of World War II, by James Holland
€9.00
€27.00
66% off
Citizen Dwyer, by Sean McCarthy
€4.00
€25.00
84% off
Impure Thoughts: Sexuality, Catholicism and Literature in Twentieth-century Ireland, by Michael G. Cronin
€10.00
€80.00
87% off
Time and Memory, by Cecilia Edefalk and Gunnel Wahlstrand
€35.00
€100.00
65% off