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The Tudors in Love: Passion and Politics in the Age of England’s Most Famous Dynasty
Maybe someday
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17/100Critics
53/100Scholars
Author:
Sarah Gristwood
Publisher:
St. Martin's Press
Date:
December 13, 2022
A history of the Tudor dynasty, showing how the rules of romantic courtly love irrevocably shaped the politics and international diplomacy of the period.
What The Reviewers Say
Dense but compelling.
The title of Gristwood’s sixth book, The Tudors in Love, might produce an eyeroll from those who are tired of our long love affair with England’s most romantically dysfunctional dynasty. However, this book stands out on the crowded bookshelves by showing that the Tudors were just as obsessed with reading about the doomed romantic royals who had gone long before them.
Sarah Gristwood skips the pretense of the standard historical political study to get right to the courtly love.
Enticingly titled, deeply researched, but ultimately disappointing.
