The Tudors.
NMR| N° d'inventaire | 19153 |
| Format | 23 x 26.5 |
| Détails | 210 p., color and black and white illustrations, hardcover. |
| Publication | Paris, 2015 |
| Etat | Nine |
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A great king of the Middle Ages had to be courteous, chivalrous, severe, and pious; a great prince of the Renaissance is libertine, cultured, magnificent, and often cruel. Henry VIII was all of this, but in the English way; that is, his libertinage remained conjugal, his theological and athletic culture, his magnificence good taste, his cruelty legally irreproachable. Thus, despite his crimes, he remained a popular sovereign among his subjects.
A great king of the Middle Ages had to be courteous, chivalrous, severe, and pious; a great prince of the Renaissance is libertine, cultured, magnificent, and often cruel. Henry VIII was all of this, but in the English way; that is, his libertinage remained conjugal, his theological and athletic culture, his magnificence good taste, his cruelty legally irreproachable. Thus, despite his crimes, he remained a popular sovereign among his subjects.