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Intrigue and Treason: The Tudor Court, 1547-1558

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This book covers Tudor court politics during the reigns of Edward VI and Mary. The book proves to be well written and nicely researched. Its appears that the author wrote the book to introduced an average reader to this rather neglected subject. The book contains a lot of information without the tedious details that may bogged a reader down. I found it to be rather insightful in approach.

Considering the contradictory nature of both reigns toward each other, it was interesting to see it portaryed side by side. Since the book covers the core of the English government, it also serves as a semi-biographical sketches of both Edward VI and Queen Mary. The author also took pains to introduced the book with the last years of Henry VIII and end it with the first years of Elizabeth I.

Overall, a highly readable book on the governmental politics during the reigns of Edward VI and Queen Mary, it come highly recommended for anyone interested in the Tudor period.

Everything I've read by David Loades is readable, scholarly, and interesting. This book in particular covers a period that is especially understudied and hard to get a grip on; Loades offers a corrective to the older, but still widely available, biographies of both Edward VI and Northumberland.