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Sex. Blood. Intrigue. Fanaticism.
These are the associations which have made the Tudors England’s most famous ruling family, a perennial subject of bodice-ripping mini-series & fanciful historical romances. But behind the technicolor story of Queen Bees & Alpha Males lies a more important and serious one: how a third rate power, the military equivalent of contemporary Denmark, the economic inferior of contemporary Belgium, emerged from thirty years of bloody civil strife known as the Wars of the Roses & began to transform itself into a constitutional monarchy, a wealthy & powerful nation, and what one recent book has called “the first modern society”. The Tudors, by their decisions & their indecisions, by their fearlessness and their failings did much to propel that story.
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