From Feud to Faction: English Politics 1450-1550
David Starkey looks at the early Tudor period.
David Starkey looks at the early Tudor period.
The transition of Henry VIII from Renaissance monarch to the Reformation patriarch, supreme head of the Church of England can be charted through the visual images of spectacle and power emanating from the royal court.
The Tudor warship Mary Rose sank in 1545 whilst leading the attack against a French invasion fleet in the Solent. Four and a half centuries later, it was raised from the depths and now lies in drydock at Portsmouth.
David Starkey provides a historiographical guide to the fifteenth century English monarchy.