Edward VI (Yale English Monarchs) (The English Monarchs Series) [Paperback]

Jennifer Loach (Author), George Bernard (Editor), Penry Williams (Editor)

Book Description

Series: The English Monarchs Series | Publication Date: April 1, 2002

This new biography of Edward VI, the boy king who died at 15 after ruling England for only six years, reveals for the first time his significant personal impact on the history of his country. Jennifer Loach portrays Edward as healthy and vigorous (contrary to previous views), precocious, highly educated, and decisive, and she details the dramatic context in which he played out his reign.

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"Edward VI counters the popular image of a sickly king doomed to die, and instead presents Edward as a vital, active and conventionally aristocratic boy... Edward VI has to be valued as an early step on a challenging historical journey, and an appropriate final volume by a distinguished historian of the Tudor century." Stephen Alford, Times Literary Supplement "Essential reading... Loach draws on considerable unpublished research by other scholars and brings her own valuable insights to many issues." Choice "A tour de force." Peter Newman Brooks, Expository Times

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Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Yale University Press (April 1, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0300094094
• ISBN-13: 978-0300094091
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.9 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,643,862 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not for the casual reader of popular history, October 30, 2000

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This review is from: Edward VI (The English Monarchs Series) (Hardcover)

Very well-researched, with a wealth of primary source material (perhaps too much!), this book is quite academic and dry. Rather than a traditional biography, the book is more a study of various aspects of the reign of Edward VI (e.g. policies on religion, economics, land use, etc.) first under the leadership of Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset, and later, John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland. I did not feel that I really learned anything about these three figures as people. "Fans" of Tudor history, having read a biography or two of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I, are likely to be disappointed in this book. It is much more geared to the historian with a serious, even professional, interest in the period.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars position papers not true biography, July 30, 2009

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This review is from: Edward VI (Yale English Monarchs) (The English Monarchs Series) (Paperback)

After the author's early death; colleagues compiled this book from Ms. Loach's notes and computer files. Perhaps this fact explains the static writing; the two-dimensional representation of the main characters; and the excessive use of footnotes as filler. For students and researchers, this book is invaluable in terms of its extensive research on Edward VI and his reign and its scholarly annotation of the resource material; bur for others, like myself, who are looking for a three-dimensional biography that breathes life into the son of Henry VIII (as has been done for his two daughters)this book disappoints.

3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An authoratative study, March 4, 2002

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This review is from: Edward VI (Yale English Monarchs) (The English Monarchs Series) (Paperback)

This book represents a comprehensive and conclusive study of an important Tudor figure. An academic study of a less well-known English monarch, this book is a fitting epitaph to a leading historian of our time.