So Great A Prince: England In 1509
by Lauren Johnson /
2016 / English / EPUB
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The King is dead: long live the King. In 1509, Henry VII was
succeeded by his son Henry VIII, second monarch of the house of
Tudor. But this is not the familiar Tudor world of Protestantism
and playwrights. Decades before the Reformation, ancient traditions
persist: boy bishops, pilgrimage, Corpus Christi pageants, the
jewel-decked shrine at Canterbury. So Great a Prince offers a
fascinating glimpse of a country and people that at first appear
alien - in calendar and clothing, in counting the hours by bell
toll - but which on closer examination are recognisably and
understandably human. Lauren Johnson tells the story of 1509 not
just from the perspective of king and court, but of merchant and
ploughman; apprentice and laundress; husbandman and foreign worker.
She looks at these early Tudor lives through the rhythms of the
ritual year, juxtaposing political events in Westminster and the
palaces of southeast England with the liturgical and agricultural
events that punctuated the year for the ordinary people of England.
The King is dead: long live the King. In 1509, Henry VII was
succeeded by his son Henry VIII, second monarch of the house of
Tudor. But this is not the familiar Tudor world of Protestantism
and playwrights. Decades before the Reformation, ancient traditions
persist: boy bishops, pilgrimage, Corpus Christi pageants, the
jewel-decked shrine at Canterbury. So Great a Prince offers a
fascinating glimpse of a country and people that at first appear
alien - in calendar and clothing, in counting the hours by bell
toll - but which on closer examination are recognisably and
understandably human. Lauren Johnson tells the story of 1509 not
just from the perspective of king and court, but of merchant and
ploughman; apprentice and laundress; husbandman and foreign worker.
She looks at these early Tudor lives through the rhythms of the
ritual year, juxtaposing political events in Westminster and the
palaces of southeast England with the liturgical and agricultural
events that punctuated the year for the ordinary people of England.