Most Read This Week In Tudor Period

The Tudor period is the period between 1485 and 1603 in England and Wales and includes the Elizabethan period which ends with the completion of the reign of Elizabeth I in 1603. The Tudor period coincides with the rule of the Tudor dynasty in England whose first monarch was Henry VII (1457–1509). In terms of the entire century, Guy (1988) argues that "England was economically healthier, more expansive, and more optimistic under the Tudors" than at any time in a thousand years.

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Three Sisters, Three Queens (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #8)

Katherine of Aragon: The True Queen (Six Tudor Queens, #1)

Plantagenet Princess, Tudor Queen: The Story of Elizabeth of York (Plantagenet Embers, #1)

Foundation: The History of England from Its Earliest Beginnings to the Tudors (The History of England, #1)

Prisoner of the Queen (Tales From the Tudor Court #2)

The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors

The Lost Tudor Princess: The Life of Lady Margaret Douglas

How To Be a Tudor: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Tudor Life

Sisters of Treason (The Tudor Trilogy, #2)

Thomas Cromwell: The Untold Story of Henry VIII's Most Faithful Servant

Winter King: Henry VII and the Dawn of Tudor England

The Temptation of Elizabeth Tudor: Elizabeth I, Thomas Seymour, and the Making of a Virgin Queen

I, Jane (In the Court of Henry VIII, #4)

Tudors: The History of England from Henry VIII to Elizabeth I (The History of England, #2)

The Queen of Last Hopes: The Story of Margaret of Anjou

Blood Will Tell: A Medical Explanation of the Tyranny of Henry VIII

Between Two Kings. A Novel of Anne Boleyn

Murder at Fontainebleau (Elizabethan Mysteries, #5)

Anne Boleyn's Letter from the Tower: A New Assessment

Elizabeth of York: A Tudor Queen and Her World

In a Treacherous Court (Susanna Horenbout and John Parker, #1)

The Tudor Bride (Catherine de Valois, #2)

The Queen's Bed: An Intimate History of Elizabeth's Court

A Song of Sixpence: The Story of Elizabeth of York and Perkin Warbeck

My Lady Viper (Tales From the Tudor Court #1)

The Forgotten Tudor Women: Margaret Douglas, Mary Howard & Mary Shelton

The Anne Boleyn Collection: The Real Truth about the Tudors

Ladies-in-Waiting: Women Who Served at the Tudor Court

Dark Aemilia: A Novel of Shakespeare's Dark Lady

The Secret Keeper: A Novel of Kateryn Parr (Ladies in Waiting, #2)

The Tudor Vendetta (The Spymaster Chronicles, #3)

Le Temps Viendra: A Novel of Anne Boleyn, Volume II

Catherine the Inquisitor (The Six Lives of Henry the VIII #1)

Inside the Tudor Court: Henry VIII and His Six Wives Through the Writings of the Spanish Ambassador Eustace Chapuys

George Boleyn: Tudor Poet, Courtier and Diplomat

The Six Wives & Many Mistresses of Henry VIII: The Womens' Stories

The Kiss of the Concubine: A story of Anne Boleyn and Henry VIII

The Boleyn Reckoning (The Boleyn Trilogy, #3)

In Defense of the Queen (Susanna Horenbout & John Parker, #3)

God's Traitors: Terror & Faith in Elizabethan England

Poison, Your Grace (Simon & Elizabeth, #2)

The Boleyn Women: The Tudor Femmes Fatales Who Changed English History

Graven With Diamonds: The Many Lives of Thomas Wyatt. Courtier, Poet, Assassin, Spy

Henry VIII: The Life and Rule of England's Nero

Fatal Rivalry: Flodden, 1513: Henry VIII and James IV and the Decisive Battle for Renaissance Britain

Murder at Hatfield House (Elizabethan Mysteries, #1)

The Woodvilles: The Wars of the Roses and England's Most Infamous Family

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“ The king greeted the document (the Collectanea) not so much as a drowning man greets a straw but as he might a rescue party from outer space. ”
― Eric Ives

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“ The fate of peoples is made like this, two men in small rooms. Forget the coronations, the conclaves of cardinals, the pomp and processions. This is how the world changes: a counter pushed across a table, a pen stroke that alters the force of a phrase, a woman's sigh as she passes and leaves on the air a trail of orange flower or rose water; her hand pulling close the bed curtain, the discreet sigh of flesh against flesh. ...more ”
― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall

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