The Tudors: Passion, Power and Politics Hardcover Book
The Tudors: Passion, Power and Politics presents the Tudor monarchs and their courts in an international context. Thematic essays examine the impact of the Tudors on court culture, religion, queenship, trade, empire and language. These are accompanied by well-known portraits, manuscripts and maps from national collections including the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Format 22.9 x 17.8 x 2.2 cm
Pages: 168 pages
Illustrations: 80 images
ISBN: 9781855145986
Binding: Hardback
More about the author:
Charlotte Bolland is Senior Curator, Research and 16th Century Collections at the National Portrait Gallery, London. She has contributed to The Encounter: Drawings from Leonardo to Rembrandt (2017), The Real Tudors: Kings and Queens Rediscovered (2014) and Elizabeth I and Her People (2013). Her most recent publication on the Tudors was Tudor and Jacobean Portraits (2019).
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Situating the Tudor dynasty, their court, and the country, in an international context, this book is highly illustrated and features contemporary research in an accessible way. It will provide an overview of the ways in which the Tudors engaged with the world and were impacted by broader currents: the internationalism of court culture, religious shifts, trade, naval conflict and the expansion in the Americas. The introductory text considers the legacies of the Tudors, as the monarchs who reigned during the tumultuous years of the Reformation and the emergence of the transatlantic slave trade and English colonialism.
Taking a thematic and biographical approach, the book will feature some of the most famous royal and court figures from the sixteenth century, from Henry VIII and Thomas Cromwell, to Elizabeth I and Walter Ralegh. The works shown will be explored from a multitude of perspectives, looking at the sitters’ impact at home and abroad in Europe and the Americas. The international impact of the Tudors will be very evident the portraits featured, the artists of which came from Netherlands, Germany, France and Italy.
Artworks will be arranged by the key themes of: court culture, religion, queenship, conflict, empire, piracy and trade, and translation. Each theme will feature an opening text from a range of voices exploring the historical contexts of the works and new research on the topics. It will include biographical sketches of individuals whose role in Tudor history has often been overlooked, such as the trumpeter John Blanke.
