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David Starkey, ed.
Rivals in Power: Lives and Letters of the Great Tudor Dynasties.
Published London: Macmillan, 1990.
Series: Lives and Letters.
ISBN 0333514521;
ISBN-13: 9780333514528.
Binding: hardback, stitch bound.
Printer: Cayfosa, Barcelona.
Size: 211x242x22mm.
Page count: 292pp (inc. 1 foldout).
Main language: English.
Overall condition good: this copy has some scuffs and scratches on the dustjacket, some wear at its edges and corners; some minor bumps & dinks on boards & spine; looks in good order internally, text appears to be free of marking.

This item £4.00
plus P&P £3.00 within the UK
(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

Weight without packaging: 1041g.

How to order this book

Each essay provides a series of extracts from letters & personal papers, with a connecting narrative.

Contents:
Starkey, Intro. — rivals in power;
MacCulloch, The Howards;
Gunn, Rise of Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk;
Gunn, Dukes of Norfolk & Suffolk, 1514-26;
Gunn, Dukes of Norfolk & Suffolk, 1527-37;
MacCulloch, Earl of Surrey & fall of the Howards;
Hawkyard, John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland;
Adams, The Earl of Leicester;
Gunn, Last of the Suffolk line;
MacCulloch, Howards under Elizabeth I;
Hawkyard, Starkey & Dutton, Sir Philip Sidney;
Hawkyard, The Talbots;
Hawkyard, The Cecils;
Hawkyard, Starkey & Dutton, Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex.

Illustrations: throughout, monochrome & colour
Maps & plans: 1, plus a panel on 16th-century maps & map-making

Notes: no
Tables: no
Genealogies: 11
Chronology: yes
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 1 page
Index: yes

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See also | Aristocracy | Tudor England | Letters & letter-writing | 
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