England under the Tudors - ELTON G.R.

KORTE INHOUD

History of England Volume IV. Hardcover, bound, gilt decorated cloth, colour frontispiece portrait, maps, illustrations in BW & colour. xxiv + 518 pp. In VG blue slipcase. 1997, second printing. Impressive bibliography & index.

Note LT: with an interesting chapter on the dissolution of the monasteries: "The dissolution destroyed the last possible refuge of papalism, enriched the crown, and anchored the new order firmly in the self-interest of the landowning classes who purchased the estates. It did all this with the thoroughness and amazing ease (...) which characterised all Cromwell's achievements." (p. 149)
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1997Uitgever: The Folio Society518 paginasTaal: Engels