Tudor England

It's a doorstopper, but don't let that fool you into not reading this book if you are a fan of all things Tudor. A tremendously interesting book that stays far away from popular conceptions of the five Tudor monarchs. So much of Tudor history is "the six" centered or Elizabeth centered, and all the......more

2.5 rounded up - it started off strong but was generally disappointing. Of course I understand how important religion was to Tudor England, from the big rituals to regional traditions and people's personal faith, but man did she just go on about it. Honestly, I think it could have been called 'Tudor......more

Truly excellent. If you're wondering what else could possibly be said about the Tudors, it turns out there's loads. This is about the people, the millions, not just the few we've concocted fantastic stories about and taken them as truth. This is a soaring attempt to light up the faces of the many, a......more

Varied greatly between chapters. This book's purports to be different from other books on the tudors in that it concentrates on life in the tudor period for everyday people. I thought much of this was quite repetitive and the more interesting chapters concentrated on the 5 tudor kings and queens.......more

This a true tour de force. A wonderful history of the entire Tudor period. As Wooding notes in her conclusion: “Writing the history of any era is an exercise in humility, as we realize the depths of our own ignorance,the banality of our modern assumptions and the levels of challenge faced by those w......more