Download or read book Tudors and Traitors written by Terry Deary and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of Terry Deary's Tudor Tales - four books in one!

Download or read book House of Treason written by Robert Hutchinson and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2009-02-26 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: King-makers - Conspirators - Criminals - Nobles - Seducers 'A riveting story, splendidly told' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Gripping and gruesome' BIG ISSUE IN THE NORTH 'Fascinating close-ups of outlandish Tudor behaviour' DAILY MAIL The Howard family - the Dukes of Norfolk - were the wealthiest and most powerful aristocrats in Tudor England, regarding themselves as the true power behind the throne. They were certainly extraordinarily influential, with two Howard women marrying Henry VIII - Anne Boleyn and the fifteen-year-old Catherine Howard. But in the treacherous world of the Tudor court no faction could afford to rest on its laurels. The Howards consolidated their power with an awesome web of schemes and conspiracies but even they could not always hold their enemies at bay. This was a family whose history is marked by treason, beheadings and incarceration - a dynasty whose pride and ambition secured only their downfall.

Download or read book The Tudor Law of Treason Routledge Revivals written by John Bellamy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title, first published in 1979, was ground-breaking in its exploration of the understudied area of the Tudor law of treason. Bellamy first examines the scope of that law, noting the inheritance from the Middle Ages, the effectiveness of the new statutes and interpretation of the law by the judiciary. Mining the archives for official, legal and literary accounts, the following parts consider how the government came to hear of traitors, the use of evidence and witnesses in trials and finally the fate of the traitor at the gallows and beyond. This is a full, useful and interesting title, which will be of great value to students researching Tudor and late medieval statute law, the Tudor concept of treason and the mores of Tudor society.

Download or read book The Tudor Law of Treason Routledge Revivals written by John Bellamy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title, first published in 1979, was ground-breaking in its exploration of the understudied area of the Tudor law of treason. Bellamy first examines the scope of that law, noting the inheritance from the Middle Ages, the effectiveness of the new statutes and interpretation of the law by the judiciary. Mining the archives for official, legal and literary accounts, the following parts consider how the government came to hear of traitors, the use of evidence and witnesses in trials and finally the fate of the traitor at the gallows and beyond. This is a full, useful and interesting title, which will be of great value to students researching Tudor and late medieval statute law, the Tudor concept of treason and the mores of Tudor society.

Download or read book Treason written by Berlie Doherty and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-10-21 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Will Montague is a page to Prince Edward, son of King Henry VIII. As the King's favourite, Will gains many enemies in Court. His enemies convince the King that Will's father has committed treason and he is thrown into Newgate Prison. Will flees Hampton Court and goes into hiding in the back streets of London. Lost and in mortal danger, he is rescued by a poor boy, Nick Drew. Together they must brave imprisonment and death as they embark on a great adventure to set Will's father free.

Download or read book House of Treason written by Robert Hutchinson and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Howard family were the wealthiest and most powerful aristocrats in Tudor England. Acclaimed historian Robert Hutchinson tells the dramatic story of the Dukes of Norfolk, whose fatal pride and ambition almost destroyed a powerful Tudor dynasty." "Robert Hutchinson describes the human drama and tensions for a turbulent century in the history of the Howards, and of England. Loyally serving Tudor monarchs at the forefront of English military and naval exploits, the Howards were not content with mere battlefield glory, and the fame and fortune which resulted. Intrigue and conspiracy ran in the veins of successive generations, but flawed ambition and crass stupidity dogged their attempts to creep ever closer to the Tudor throne. Two Dukes of Norfolk were condemned as traitors; another was beheaded. Other family members were frequently - and sometimes falsely - incarcerated on suspicion of disloyalty to the throne. As far as the Tudor monarchy was concerned, the Howards were a house of treason."--Jacket.

Download or read book The Other Boleyn Girl written by Philippa Gregory and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The daughters of a ruthlessly ambitious family, Mary and Anne Boleyn are sent to the court of Henry VIII to attract the attention of the king. He first takes Mary as his mistress, in which role she bears him an illegitimate son, and then Anne as his wife.

Download or read book Treason in Tudor England written by Lacey Baldwin Smith and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lacey Baldwin Smith re-evaluates the Tudor mania for conspiracy in the light of psychological and social impulses peculiar to the age. Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Download or read book Traitors of the Tower written by Alison Weir and published by Clipper Audio. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than four hundred years ago, seven people - five of them women - were beheaded in the Tower of London. Three had been queens of England. The others were found guilty of treason. Why were such important people put to death? Alison Weir's gripping book tells their stories: from the former friend betrayed by a man set on being king, to the young girl killed after just nine days on the throne. Alison Weir is a wonderful storyteller. Through her vivid writing, history comes alive.

Download or read book God s Traitors written by Jessie Childs and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the Catholic predicament in Elizabethan England through the eyes of one remarkable family: the Vauxes of Harrowden Hall.

Download or read book Innocent Traitor written by Alison Weir and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2007-02-27 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An impressive debut. Weir shows skill at plotting and maintaining tension, and she is clearly going to be a major player in the . . . historical fiction game.”—The Independent I am now a condemned traitor . . . I am to die when I have hardly begun to live. Historical expertise marries page-turning fiction in Alison Weir’s enthralling debut novel, breathing new life into one of the most significant and tumultuous periods of the English monarchy. It is the story of Lady Jane Grey–“the Nine Days’ Queen”—a fifteen-year-old girl who unwittingly finds herself at the center of the religious and civil unrest that nearly toppled the fabled House of Tudor during the sixteenth century. The child of a scheming father and a ruthless mother, for whom she is merely a pawn in a dynastic game with the highest stakes, Jane Grey was born during the harrowingly turbulent period between Anne Boleyn’s beheading and the demise of Jane’s infamous great-uncle, King Henry VIII. With the premature passing of Jane’ s adolescent cousin, and Henry’s successor, King Edward VI, comes a struggle for supremacy fueled by political machinations and lethal religious fervor. Unabashedly honest and exceptionally intelligent, Jane possesses a sound strength of character beyond her years that equips her to weather the vicious storm. And though she has no ambitions to rule, preferring to immerse herself in books and religious studies, she is forced to accept the crown, and by so doing sets off a firestorm of intrigue, betrayal, and tragedy. Alison Weir uses her unmatched skills as a historian to enliven the many dynamic characters of this majestic drama. Along with Lady Jane Grey, Weir vividly renders her devious parents; her much-loved nanny; the benevolent Queen Katherine Parr; Jane’s ambitious cousins; the Catholic “Bloody” Mary, who will stop at nothing to seize the throne; and the protestant and future queen Elizabeth. Readers venture inside royal drawing rooms and bedchambers to witness the power-grabbing that swirls around Lady Jane Grey from the day of her birth to her unbearably poignant death. Innocent Traitor paints a complete and compelling portrait of this captivating young woman, a faithful servant of God whose short reign and brief life would make her a legend. BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Alison Weir's Mary Boleyn.

Download or read book The Traitor s Daughter written by Barbara Kyle and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2015-05-26 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1582, England is gripped by the fear of traitors. Kate Lyon, tainted by her exiled mother's past treason, has been disowned by her father, Baron Thornleigh. But in truth, Kate and her husband Owen are only posing as Catholic sympathizers to gain information for Queen Elizabeth's spymaster. Kate is an expert decoder. The deception pains her, but she takes heart in the return to England of her long estranged brother Robert. If only she could be sure where his loyalties lie... Kate and Owen’s spying yields valuable intelligence: English Catholics abroad are spearheading an invasion that would see Elizabeth deposed—or worse—in favor of Mary, Queen of Scots. Kate takes on the dangerous role of double agent, decoding and delivering letters the exiles send Mary. But when lives and fortunes hang by the thinnest threads, betrayal is only a whisper away... A brilliant blend of Tudor history and lush storytelling, The Traitor's Daughter is a riveting, passionate novel of loyalty, heartbreak, and one woman's undaunted courage.

Download or read book The Tudors Thy Will Be Done written by Elizabeth Massie and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-04-28 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novelization of the third season of the popular historical drama based on the life of Henry VIII traces his marriages to Jane Seymour and Anne of Cleves, a period marked by the birth of his first legitimate son, tenacious political alliances, and a continuing estrangement from the Roman Catholic church. Original.

Download or read book Power Treason and Plot in Tudor England written by Tony Morgan and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2022-04-06 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tudor period was notable for religious turmoil. Under Queen Elizabeth I, the slowly reforming Protestant Church of England finally gained a level of stability, but many people, from paupers to Lords, clung to Catholicism. Most crossed their fingers and attended Protestant services. Others, the ‘recusants’, remained defiant and refused to conform. This book takes a fresh look into the life and death of one prominent Catholic recusant, Margaret Clitherow, and the wider events which shaped her story and that of many others. In 1970, Margaret was made a saint, one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales. All suffered a similar fate. Elizabeth’s government faced threats from multiple directions - poor harvests, disease, attempts at invasion and plots to replace the Queen with a Catholic monarch. In York, friction was growing between the Council of the North and the city Corporation. But for much of the population, life went on as normal. One well-to-do family in the city celebrated the birth of a daughter. Brought up for a time as a Protestant, Margaret Middleton eventually married a butcher, John Clitherow. They set up home in the Shambles and raised a family. Margaret’s destiny changed when she embraced Catholicism. In 1586, Margaret’s stepfather was elected Lord Mayor of York. A few weeks later, Margaret was arrested for harbouring Catholic priests. Coincidence, or something more sinister? What happened next was sensational. One woman taking on the northern authorities, the Church of England and assizes judiciary. Sentenced to death for refusing to make a plea in court, Margaret received a last-minute reprieve due to claims of her pregnancy, only for these to be rejected. Following Margaret’s brutal execution, Queen Elizbeth is said to have apologised to the people of York. With one martyr and no winner, Margaret’s story is examined as a microcosm of Tudor life, a family tragedy of faith and betrayal, set against a backdrop of political power games, treason and plot.

Download or read book A Queen s Traitor written by Sam Burnell and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2017-11-27 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Richard Fitzwarren - An anti-hero with a dubious past, questionable morals but unswerving loyalties Richard grinned and grasping his brother's wrist said, "Terrible apart and even worse together - that would make us a fine family moto. Et mirabilia absque peius."Jack Fitzwarren, Richard's displaced bastard brother, seeks a place at his brother's side. Impulsive and hot headed, his attempts to gain his brother's acceptance and approval often end badly. Finally the brothers are brought head to head when Richard tries to foil a plot against Elizabeth I. Jack Fitzwarren, fearing his brother has died embarks on a reckless path, and whether or not Richard can save him remains to be seen. Branded a traitor to the Crown for helping to foil a plot to remove the Princess Elizabeth from the succession, now he will risk all to save her from a plot to snatch her from England. Protestant Reformers need a figurehead for their cause, and Elizabeth. is it. They truly believe the Princess will be safer in Europe away from her sister Mary's cruel hand, but the lady does not want to go. Elizabeth knows her destiny lies with England, and Jack's lies with his brother - or so he hopes. PAGE UP AND ORDER

Download or read book The Tudor Age written by Jasper Ridley and published by . This book was released on 1996-11-01 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Tudor age' is worthwhile for its fascinating descriptions of daily life and anecdotes about the era's famous figures. It will be an informative and attractive addition to public library shelves.

Download or read book The Tudor Law of Treason written by John G. Bellamy and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1979 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: