2017, ISBN: 1545344590

[EAN: 9781545344590], New book, [PU: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform], Language: English . Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****. In the whole range of English history th… Mehr…

[EAN: 9781545344590], New book, [PU: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform], Language: English . Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****. In the whole range of English history there is no monarch whose character has been more variously depicted by contemporaries or more strenuously debated by posterity than the majestic lord who broke the bonds of Rome. To one historian an inhuman embodiment of cruelty and vice, to another a superhuman incarnation of courage, wisdom and strength of will, Henry VIII. has, by an almost universal consent, been placed above or below the grade of humanity. So unique was his personality, so singular his achievements, that he appears in the light of a special dispensation sent like another Attila to be the scourge of mankind, or like a second Hercules to cleanse, or at least to demolish, Augean stables. The dictates of his will seemed as inexorable as the decrees of fate, and the history of his reign is strewn with records of the ruin of those who failed to placate his wrath. Of the six queens he married, two he divorced, and two he beheaded.<

ISBN: 9781545344590

In the whole range of English history there is no monarch whose character has been more variously depicted by contemporaries or more strenuously debated by posterity than the majestic lor… Mehr…

In the whole range of English history there is no monarch whose character has been more variously depicted by contemporaries or more strenuously debated by posterity than the majestic lord who broke the bonds of Rome. To one historian an inhuman embodiment of cruelty and vice, to another a superhuman incarnation of courage, wisdom and strength of will, Henry VIII. has, by an almost universal consent, been placed above or below the grade of humanity. So unique was his personality, so singular his achievements, that he appears in the light of a special dispensation sent like another Attila to be the scourge of mankind, or like a second Hercules to cleanse, or at least to demolish, Augean stables. The dictates of his will seemed as inexorable as the decrees of fate, and the history of his reign is strewn with records of the ruin of those who failed to placate his wrath. Of the six queens he married, two he divorced, and two he beheaded... Trade Books>Trade Paperback>World History>Europe History>Europe History, CreateSpace Publishing Core >1<

ISBN: 9781545344590

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