The Tudors For Dummies (For Dummies (History, Biography & Politics)

380 Pages·2011·4.67 MB·English

by  David Loades

History
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Elizabeth I. Packed with information on the battles, beheadings
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(cid:129) Where to find surviving Tudor
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status and the reasons behind his break with the Roman (cid:129) What the Tudors did for us
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how-to articles or to shop! (cid:129) Henry VIII and his unlucky wives
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of Elizabeth I
(cid:129) The bloody battles, rampant diseases
and religious divides of the period
Professor David Loades is Professor Emeritus at the University of Wales £15.99 UK / $19.99 US / $23.99 CN
and has taught history at universities including St Andrews and Durham.
ISBN 978-0-470-68792-5
He has written many books on the Tudor period and is a Fellow of the David Loades
Royal Historical Society. Mei Trow is a history tutor, lecturer and author
Historian and lecturer
who has written numerous historical books on topics ranging from Jack the
Mei Trow
Ripper to Boudicca. His recent TV work includes Ancient Discoveries and
Loades
Spartacus for The History Channel. Trow Historian and author
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The Tudors
FOR
DUMmIES
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by David Loades and Mei Trow
A John Wiley and Sons, Ltd, Publication
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About the Authors
Professor David Loades studied history at Cambridge, where he researched
under the great Professor Sir Geoffrey Elton, and spent his entire working
life teaching history at various universities including St Andrews, Durham
and North Wales. He is Professor Emeritus, University of Wales, and for the
duration of his directorship of the British Academy John Foxe Project, was
Research Professor at the University of Sheffi eld. He is currently a member
of the History Faculty of the University of Oxford, a Fellow of the Society of
Antiquaries and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He has just completed
a book on Mary Tudor and is currently writing a biography of Henry VIII, as
well as a book on the mid-Tudor navy.
Mei Trow is an historian and criminologist who has written a number of
books on the more colourful personalities from history, such as Spartacus,
Vlad the Impaler, Boudicca, El Cid and Kit Marlowe. Mei is also a novelist
with two crime detective series to his credit and a third in development. He
regularly appears on the Discovery and History Channels as an expert and
presenter.
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Authors’ Acknowledgements
Writing a For Dummies book has been a very different experience from writ-
ing the many other books I have published, but whatever I write owes much
to my pupils during a lifetime of teaching. In this instance my fi rst debt must
be to my wife, Judith, who has worked her way through each chapter.
I also thank Juliet Atkins, without whose technical skills the format would
have been impossible for me. My greatest debt is to the For Dummies team:
to Nicole Hermitage, who invited me to contribute to the series (and who
must often have had second thoughts!), and to Brian who made my work
more lucid. Finally, my greatest debt is to Steve Edwards who has taken this
book every step of the way and who has demonstrated the patience of Job in
seeing it through from start to fi nish!
– David Loades
My thanks as always to Carol, my wife, for all her hard work and technical
know-how in putting The Tudors For Dummies together. My thanks also to
Steve Edwards and his team, for their support and guidance.
– Mei Trow
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