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Tudor de Leanda de Lisle

Tudor

Autor Leanda de Lisle
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 24 feb 2015

Ceea ce aduce nou lucrarea Tudor de Leanda de Lisle este o schimbare de perspectivă asupra celei mai faimoase dinastii britanice, mutând reflectorul de pe clișeele reformei religioase către rădăcinile umane și adesea ignorate ale familiei. Ne-a atras atenția modul în care autoarea refuză să înceapă cronologia direct cu Bătălia de la Bosworth din 1485, alegând în schimb să exploreze ascensiunea improbabilă a lui Owen Tudor și reziliența fenomenală a lui Margaret Beaufort. Suntem de părere că această abordare transformă istoria politică într-o saga familială profundă, unde supraviețuirea liniei de sânge devine motorul principal al fiecărei decizii regale.

Spre deosebire de lucrările care se concentrează strict pe structurile de guvernare, acest volum de 560 de pagini publicat de Vintage Publishing oferă un portret de familie complet, analizând modul în care trecutul pe care Tudorii au încercat să îl rescrie le-a modelat acțiunile. Notăm cu interes rigoarea cu care sunt tratate figurile feminine, prezentate nu ca pioni, ci ca arhitecți ai puterii. Tudor reprezintă o alternativă la The Tudors de David Loades pentru cursurile de istorie a Marii Britanii, având avantajul unei structuri narative mai fluide și al unei atenții sporite acordate perioadei de formare a dinastiei, înainte de consolidarea absolutismului lui Henry al VIII-lea. În timp ce Lucy Wooding în Tudor England se axează pe viziunea de ansamblu a epocii, De Lisle reușește să mențină un ritm alert, concentrat pe drama umană din spatele coroanei, oferind noi perspective asupra unor mistere istorice precum soarta prinților din Turn.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781610395458
ISBN-10: 161039545X
Pagini: 576
Ilustrații: 16-pp. photo insert on text
Dimensiuni: 136 x 208 x 43 mm
Greutate: 0.73 kg
Ediția:First Trade Paper Edition
Editura: PublicAffairs

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Recomandăm această carte cititorilor care doresc să înțeleagă dinastia Tudor dincolo de mitul celor șase soții ale lui Henry al VIII-lea. Veți câștiga o perspectivă clară asupra modului în care o familie de origine modestă a ajuns să domine Anglia, descoperind rolul esențial al femeilor puternice care au asigurat continuitatea coroanei. Este o lectură esențială pentru cei care caută o istorie documentată, dar scrisă cu talentul unui povestitor.

Despre autor

Leanda de Lisle este o istorică și scriitoare britanică recunoscută pentru capacitatea sa de a aduce la lumină perspective noi asupra perioadelor Tudor și Stuart. Educată la Oxford, ea s-a specializat în transformarea cercetării academice riguroase în istorii narative accesibile publicului larg. Stilul său se caracterizează prin atenția la detalii biografice și prin reevaluarea figurilor istorice feminine, oferindu-le acestora agenția și importanța cuvenită în contextul politic al epocii. Tudor este una dintre cele mai apreciate lucrări ale sale, fiind lăudată pentru prospețimea interpretării unei teme clasice.

Descriere scurtă

The Tudors are England's most dramatic royal family-Henry VIII notoriously divorced his queen and broke with the church of Rome, and Elizabeth I became the greatest English queen in history. But they are a dynasty still more extraordinary than the one we thought we knew.

In an epic narrative sweeping from 1437 to the first decade of the seventeenth century, Tudor traces the rise and rule of the dynasty. Brutal political instability dominated England, and Leanda de Lisle reveals the personalities, passions, and obsessions of the men and women at its epicenter.

This groundbreaking story opens at the unlikely beginning of the Tudor dynasty-with Owen Tudor, a handsome Welsh commoner who, with a pirouette and a trip, landed squarely in the lap of the English Monarchy. The struggle of Owen's grandson Henry VII and his heirs to secure the line of succession-and the hopes, loves, and losses of the claimants-are the focus of this book. The universal appeal of the Tudors also lies in the family stories: of a mother's love for her son, of the husband who kills his wives, of siblings who betray one another, of reckless love affairs, of rival cousins, of an old spinster whose heirs hope to hurry her to her end.

Thrilling to read and bristling with religious and political intrigue, Tudor tells the true story behind the myths, throwing a fresh, new light on this perennially fascinating era.

Notă biografică

Leanda de Lisle is the highly acclaimed author of The Sisters Who Would Be Queen: The Tragedy of Mary, Katherine, and Lady Jane Grey and After Elizabeth: The Death of Elizabeth and the Coming of King James. She has been a columnist at the Spectator, Country Life, the Guardian, the Sunday Telegraph, and the Daily Express, and writes for the Daily Mail, the New Statesman, and the Sunday Telegraph. She lives in Leicestershire.

Recenzii

“Leanda de Lisle reveals such hidden depths in the vivid history of England's most famous dynasty”—The American Conservative
“Deeply researched but vibrantly accessible.” — Wall Street Journal

“Leanda de Lisle has the gift of reminding us that history is the story of real people; real men, real women, full of rage and ambition and lust and hope and love. The Tudors are already our most vivid dynasty, by quite a long chalk, but these pages render them more vivid still. This was an age when the game was worth the candle, when a chance remark could result in a crown or the axe. Wonderful, passionate, dangerous, fascinating stuff. I couldn't put it down.”—Julian Fellowes, creator of Downton Abbey

“This fresh take on the Tudor dynasty is history at its best… an engaging and well-sourced account, sprinkled with provocative anecdotes that will appeal to both scholars and general readers… This compelling tale is driven by three-dimensional people and relationships, and de Lisle does a fantastic job of making them feel lived and dramatic. ” — Publishers Weekly, starred

“A reliable and amply researched guide.” — Kirkus Reviews

“Enjoyable, well-written… De Lisle examines the key events and characters that make the Tudor story interesting… This is a very well-done popular history ideal for general readers.” — Booklist

“Six centuries after they began, the Tudors are still England's most famous family. Their story is told in full in Leanda de Lisle's Tudor, a wonderfully fluent portrait of five generations that connects the often overlooked fifteenth century Tudors with the more famous stuff. In bridging this divide, de Lisle brings an entirely fresh feel to the Tudor story, reminding us of the one thing the monarchs themselves wanted us to forget: the sheer improbability of their royal rule.” —The Times (London)

“Europe has produced no family saga that could match the Tudors. Rarely has that story been so well told as here.” — The Mail

“De Lisle's masterful command of the facts – great and small – provides a complete and entertaining overview.” — The Guardian

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Some of their past the Tudors wanted to remember, other parts they preferred to forget: a new history, a new story, the family behind the myths. The Tudors are a national obsession; they are our most notorious royal family. But, as Leanda de Lisle shows in this gripping new history, beyond the well-worn headlines is a family still more extraordinary than the one we thought we knew. The Tudor canon typically starts with the Battle of Bosworth in 1485, before speeding on to Henry VIII and the Reformation. But this leaves out the family 's obscure Welsh origins, the ordinary man known as Owen Tudor who would fall (literally) into a Queen 's lap, and later her bed. It passes by the courage of Margaret Beaufort, the pregnant thirteen-year-old girl who would help found the Tudor dynasty; and the childhood and painful exile of her son, the future Henry VII. It ignores the fact that the Tudors were shaped by their past -- those parts they wished to remember and those they wished to forget. By creating a full family portrait set against the background of this past, Leanda de Lisle enables us to see the Tudors in their own terms, rather than ours; and presents new perspectives and revelations on key figures and events. We see a family dominated by remarkable women doing everything possible to secure its future; understand why the Princes in the Tower disappeared; look again at the bloodiness of Mary 's reign; at Elizabeth 's relationships with her cousins; and re-discover the true significance of previously overlooked figures. We see the supreme importance of achieving peace and stability in a violent and uncertain world, and of protecting and securing the bloodline. "Tudor" tells a family story like no other, and brings it once more to vivid life."