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Article: The Royal Palaces of Tudor England: Architecture and Court Life, 1460-1547. (book reviews)
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- History Today
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- December 1, 1994
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In his lavish and attractive book, Simon Thurley stresses that the sixty-plus houses owned by Henry VIII, carefully acquired and built up during his reign, were more than simply residence; they were the progressive centres for an itinerant court. The first four chapters of this new history of Tudor architecture provide a building-by-building account, with excellent plans and surviving visual evidence, of the history of the royal houses from the Middle Ages through to Henry VIII. Although the book's title would seem to include all the Tudors, the emphasis is decidedly on the earlier monarchs.
As Curator of the Historic Royal Palaces, Thurley is a definitive guide ...