Houses of Power: The places that shaped the Tudor world
Houses of Power tells the architectural history of the Tudor monarchy. It brings together thirty years of writing, research, thinking and digging into the architecture and social life of the Tudor court. It turns a mass of my periodical literature and several of my previous books about royal houses into a completely fresh story about the Tudor court and its buildings. John Guy in the Literary Review calls it ‘a riveting account’; Christopher Howse in the Saturday Telegraph, ‘Immensely informative’, Dan Jones in the Mail on Sunday ‘Fresh, learned, readable and full of life’, while the Saturday times calls its beautiful design ‘suitably opulent’ and says my ‘enthusiasm steadily bubbles forth from Houses of Power’.
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Simon Thurley, Houses of Power: The Places That Shaped the Tudor World (London, 2017).