Susan Doran teaches early modern history at Christ Church College, Oxford. Her previous publications include Queen Elizabeth I and The Tudor Chronicles. David Starkey is a notable British academic, historian, writer, and broadcaster whose books have been made into acclaimed television series, including Henry VIII and Elizabeth I.
"Plenty of historians and writers... have constructed narratives
about the life of Henry VIII. But there is another way of
approaching so singular and English king: through his possessions.
That is part of the thinking behind an exhibit curated by David
Starkey at the British Library. [...] If you can't make it to
London before the exhibit ends... there's the British exhibit's
catalog, Man and Monarch: Henry VIII from the University of
Chicago. [...] Objects, the catalog suggests, allow us to draw our
own conclusions without intermediaries."-- "Jacket Copy LA
Times"
"With Henry VIII: Man and Monarch keen armchair historians can see
the British Library's Henry archive for themselves. Starkey
introduces us to Henry, the monarch and the man, contextualises his
reign, and then each section of the book is itself introduced by
another leading Reformation scholar. This sumptuously illustrated
book contains reproductions of contemporary drawings, paintings,
letters and other key 15th and 16th Century documents all of which
build to bring Henry and his court into vivid relief. If you really
want to know Henry, the virtuous Prince, the religious scholar and
the tyrant, you could not do better than accompany a reading of
Starkey's matchless Henry with this stunning catalogue."-- "The
Book Depository"
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