Tudor Period

The Tudor period is the period between 1485 and 1603 in England and Wales and includes the Elizabethan period which ends with the completion of the reign of Elizabeth I in 1603. The Tudor period coincides with the rule of the Tudor dynasty in England whose first monarch was Henry VII (1457–1509). In terms of the entire century, Guy (1988) argues that "England was economically healthier, more expansive, and more optimistic under the Tudors" than at any time in a thousand years.

Monarchs:
Henry VII
Henry VIII
Edward VI
Lady Jane Grey
Mary I
Elizabeth I
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Three Sisters, Three Queens (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #8)
Owen (Tudor Trilogy, #1)
Lamentation (Matthew Shardlake, #6)
Katherine of Aragon: The True Queen (Six Tudor Queens, #1)
Plantagenet Princess, Tudor Queen: The Story of Elizabeth of York (Plantagenet Embers, #1)
Foundation: The History of England from Its Earliest Beginnings to the Tudors (The History of England, #1)
Prisoner of the Queen (Tales From the Tudor Court #2)
The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors
Brazen (Royal Circle, #3)
The Lost Tudor Princess: The Life of Lady Margaret Douglas
Trinity (Wars of the Roses, #2)
Prophecy (Giordano Bruno, #2)
How To Be a Tudor: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Tudor Life
Sisters of Treason (The Tudor Trilogy, #2)
Maid of Wonder (Maids of Honor, #3)
The Other Boleyn Girl (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #9)
Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)
The Boleyn Inheritance (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #10)
The Constant Princess (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #6)
The Six Wives of Henry VIII
Bring Up the Bodies (Thomas Cromwell, #2)
The Queen's Fool (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #13)
The Virgin's Lover (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #14)
Innocent Traitor
Tarnish by Katherine LongshoreAnne & Henry by Dawn IusDoomed Queen Anne by Carolyn MeyerAnne Boleyn and Me by Alison PrinceFatal Throne by Candace Fleming
Anne Boleyn in YA Fiction
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Famous Weddings
29 books — 8 voters
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Subtitle
548 books — 41 voters

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Tudor Fiction
165 books — 66 voters
The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa GregoryThe Boleyn Inheritance by Philippa GregoryThe Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison WeirThe Wives of Henry VIII by Antonia FraserThe Children of Henry VIII by Alison Weir
Henry's Six Wives
161 books — 114 voters


Although these were not necessarily gifts Mary consciously gave to Elizabeth, as the first independent queen of England it was she who established a powerful rhetoric for female rule, which Elizabeth quite literally inherited. Mary’s claims include: (1) the idea the she was the virgin mother of her country; (2) the idea that England’s people were her children; (3) the idea that she was a virgin wedded to her kingdom, her coronation ring being, specifically, her wedding ring.
Maureen Quilligan, When Women Ruled the World: Making the Renaissance in Europe

There were a couple of positives: in 1554, the Queen Regent's Prerogative Act was passed which made explicit, for the first time, that when a woman inherited the throne - became the sovereign, queen regnant rather than consort - she enjoyed the same powers as a king. Or had them, anyway. It really doesn't seem like she enjoyed them. ...more
David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

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