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Susan
Brigden.
New Worlds, Lost Worlds: The Rule of the Tudors 1485-1603.
Harmondsworth: Allen
Lane, The Penguin Press, 2000.
Penguin History of
Britain,
vol. 5.
xiv,434pp.
Hardback ISBN
0713990678.
Publisher's
recommended price £20.00
No
period in British
history today retains more resonance and mystery than the sixteenth
century.
The leading figures of the time have become almost mythical, and the
terrors
and grandeurs of Tudor Britain form an essential background of even the
least historically minded readers. New Worlds, Lost Worlds is a
startlingly atmospheric tour-de-force. Matchlessly well written
and authoritative, this book gives its readers a quite remarkable sense
of both the atmosphere of a great era and its epochal events.
Above
all, Brigden
sees the key to the Tudor world as religion - the new world of
Protestantism
and its battle with the old world of uniform Catholicism. This great
religious
rent in the fabric of English society underlies the savage violence and
turbulence of the period - from from Henry VIII's break with Rome to
the
overwhelming threat of the Spanish Armada. Full attention too is paid
to
Ireland and the critical role it played in determining English affairs.
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