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John Fisher, 1469-1535 was a figure of European stature during the Tudor age. This study places him in the context of sixteenth-century Christendom, focusing not just on his resistance to Henry VIII, but also on his active engagement with the renaissance and reformation.
THOMAS MADE ENGLAND. OLIVER MADE BRITAIN. An original new history by Miranda Malins that brings together Thomas Cromwell and Oliver Cromwell for the first time.
This book explores the gender politics of the reign of Mary I of England from her coronation to her funeral and examines the ways in which the queen and her supporters used language, royal ceremonies, and images to bolster her right to rule and define her image as queen.
The book also considers Elizabeth as “authored,” studying how she is reflected in the writing of her contemporaries and reconstructing a wider web of relations between the public and private use of language in early modern culture.
The Renaissance created a new vision of womanhood and indeed a "New Woman", proposes Gaia Servadio. She follows four key women - Vittoria Colonna, Tullia d'Aragona, Louise Labe, and Elizabeth I - through the rise and fall of the Renaissance.
A vivid portrait of the achievements, challenges and legacy of the ‘knight-king’, Francis I.