Books Consulted in Writing
The Secrets of the Tudor Court series
by
Kate Emerson
THE PLEASURE PALACE
BETWEEN TWO QUEENS
BY ROYAL DECREE
AT THE KING'S PLEASURE
THE KING'S DAMSEL
ROYAL INHERITANCE (forthcoming in 2013)
General References
Oxford
Dictionary of National Biography (online)
Oxford English Dictionary
Victoria History of the Counties of England
The History of Parliament: The House of Commons 3 vols
for 1509-1558; 3 vols for 1558-1603
Baumgartner, Frederic J., France in the Sixteenth Century
Beer, Barrett L., Tudor England Observed: The World of John Stow
Black, C. F., et al, Cultural Atlas of the Renaissance
Black, Jeremy, Historical Atlas of Britain,
Brimacombe, Peter, Life in Tudor England
Burton, Elizabeth, The Pageant of Early Tudor England
Clout, Hugh, ed., The Times London History Atlas
Cressy, David, Birth, Marriage & Death:
Ritual, Religion, and the Life-Cycle in Tudor and Stuart England
Cressy, David, Literacy and Social Order: Reading
and Writing in Tudor and Stuart England
Ellis, Henry, ed., Hall's Chronicle
Emerson, Kathy Lynn, Writer's Guide to Everyday Life in Renaissance England
Febvre, Lucien, Life in Renaissance France
Fedden, Katharine, Manor Life in Old France
Gairdner, James, ed., Letters and Papers, Foreign
and Domestic, Henry VIII (available at British History Online )
Harrison, William, The Description of England
Sim, Alison, Food and Feast in Tudor England
Sim, Alison, Pleasures and Pastimes in Tudor
England
Sim, Alison, The Tudor Housewife
Starkey, David, ed., The Inventory of King Henry VIII: Transcript of the
Inventory
Sutton, Anne F. The Mercery of London
Wiley, W. L., The Gentleman of Renaissance France
Biographies
Henry VII
Alexander, Michael Van Cleave, The First of the Tudors
Bevan, Bryan, Henry VII
Crimes, S. B., Henry VII
Cunningham, Sean, Henry VII
Simons, Eric N., Henry VII: The First Tudor King
Rees, David, The Son of Prophecy: Henry Tudor's Road to Bosworth
Storey, R. L., The Reign of Henry VII
Williams, Neville, The Life and Times of Henry VII
Henry VIII
Bruce, Anne Marie, The Making of Henry VIII
Cruickshank, Charles, Henry VIII and the Invasion of France
Doran, Susan, ed.,Henry VIII Man and Monarch
Erickson, Carolly, Great Harry
Hackett, Francis, Henry the Eighth
Hutchinson, Robert,The Last Days of Henry
VIII
Pollard, A. F., Henry VIII
Scarisbrick, J. J., Henry VIII
Starkey, David, Henry VIII: A European Court in England
Weir, Alison, Henry VIII and his Court
Williams, Neville, Henry VIII and his Court
Margaret and/or Mary Tudor
Chapman, Hester W., The Thistle and the Rose: The Sisters of Henry VIII
Harvey, Nancy Lenz, The Rose and the Thorn: The Lives of Mary and Margaret
Tudor
Perry, Maria, The Sisters of Henry VIII
Richardson, Walter C., Mary Tudor: The White Queen
Francis I
Hackett, Francis Francis I
Knecht, R. J., Renaissance Warrior and Patron: The
Reign of Francis I
Seward, Desmond, Prince of the Renaissance: The Golden Life of Francois I
Louis XII
Baumgartner, Frederic J., Louis XII
Collective Biographies of Henry VIII's Wives
Fraser, Antonia, The Wives of Henry VIII
Loades, David, Henry VIII and his Queens
Loades, David, The Tudor Queens of England
Starkey, David, Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII
Strickland, Agnes, Lives of the Queens of England
Weir, Alison, The Six Wives of Henry VIII
Individual Biographies of Henry VIII's Wives
Bernard, G. W., Anne Boleyn: Fatal Attraction
Bruce, Anne Marie, Anne Bolelyn
Denny, Joanna, Katherine Howard: A Tudor Conspiracy
Gross, Pamela M., Jane, the Quene, Third Consort
of Henry VIII
Ives, Eric, The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn
James, Susan, Catherine Parr
James, Susan, Kateryn Parr: The Making of a Queen
Luke, Mary M.,Catherine, the Queen
Mattingly, Garrett, Catherine of Aragon
Norton, Elizabeth, Anne of Cleves: Henry VIII's
Discarded Bride
Norton, Elizabeth, Catherine Parr
Norton, Elizabeth, Jane Seymour, Henry VIII's True
Love
Porter, Linda, Katherine the Queen: The Remarkable Life of Katherine Parr
Smith, Lacey Baldwin, A Tudor Tragedy: The Life and Times of Catherine
Howard
Tremlett, Giles, Catherine of Aragon
Warnicke, Retha M., The
Rise and Fall of Anne Boleyn
Weir, Alison, The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn
Henry VIII's Children
Chapman, Hester, The Last Tudor King
Jordan, W. K., Edward VI: The Young King
Jordan, W. K., Edward VI: The Threshold of Power
Loach, Jennifer, Edward VI
Loades, David, Mary Tudor: A Life
Luke, Mary M, A Crown for Elizabeth
Murphy, Beverly A., Bastard Prince: Henry VIII's
Lost Son
Porter, Linda, The First Queen of England: The Myth of "Bloody
Mary"
Robinson, W. R. B., "Princess Mary's Itinerary in the Marches of Wales
1525-1527," Historical Research 71 (1998), pp.232-252.
Skidmore, Chris, Edward VI: The Lost King of England
Starkey, David, Elizabeth
Anna Whitlock, Mary Tudor: England's First Queen
Other Tudor People
Anstruther, Godfrey, Vaux of Harrowden
Arthurson, Ian, The Perkin Warbeck Conspiracy
Beer, Barrett, Northumberland
Bernard, G. W., "The Rise of Sir William Compton, Early Tudor
Courtier," The English Historical Review, Vol. 96, # 381 (Oct.
1981), pp.754-777
Bradley, M. Morton, Elizabeth Blount of Kinlet
Fox, Julia, Jane Boleyn
Goff, Cecily, A Woman of the Tudor Age,
Gunn, S. J., Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk
Gunn, S. J., "The Courtiers of Henry VIII," English Historical
Review vol. 108 #426 (January 1993), pp. 23-49
Harris, Barbara, Edward Stafford, Third Duke of Buckingham, 1478-1521
Harvey, Nancy Lenz, Elizabeth of York
Hutchinson, Robert, House of Treason: The Rise and Fall of a Tudor Dynasty
Ives, Eric, Lady Jane Grey A Tudor Mystery
Jones, Michael K., and Malcolm G. Underwood, The King's Mother
Lindsay, Philip, The Queenmaker
Lisle, Leanda de, The Sisters who would be Queen
Loades, David, John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland
1504-1553
Michell, Ronald, The Carews
of Beddington
Read, Evelyn, My Lady Suffolk
Seymour, William, Ordeal By Ambition: An English Family in the Shadow of the
Tudors
Simon, Linda, Of Virtue Rare: Margaret Beaufort
Tucker, Melvin J., The Life and Times of Thomas Howard, earl of Surrey and
2nd duke of Norfolk
Weir, Alison, Mary Boleyn: The Mistress of Kings
Willen, Diana, John Russell, First Earl of
Bedford: One of the King's Men
Woolgar, C. M., The Great Households of Late
Medieval England
Specialized Reference Books
Life
at the Tudor Court
Anglo, Sydney, Spectacle, Pageantry, and early Tudor Policy
Bernard, G. W., ed., The Tudor Nobility
Carlton, Charles, ed., State, Sovereign and Society in Early Modern England
Daybell, James, ed., Women and Politics in Early
Modern England 1450-1700
Gravett, Christopher, Tudor Knight
Griffiths, R. A., Kings and Nobles in the Later Middle Ages
Harris, Barbara J., English Aristocratic Women 1450-1550
Hay, Denys, ed., The Anglica Historia,
A.D. 1485-1537 (Polydore Vergil)
Loades, D. M.,The
Tudor Court
McCulloch, Diarmaid, ed., The Reign of Henry VIII:
Politics, Policy and Piety
McFarlane, R. B., The Nobility of Later Medieval England
Matthew, David, The Courtiers of Henry VIII
Miller, Helen, Henry VIII and the English Nobility
Ross, Charles, ed., Patronage, Pedigree and Power in Later Medieval England
Russell, Joycelyne, The Field of Cloth of Gold
Somerset, Anne, Ladies in Waiting
Southworth, John, Fools and Jesters at the English
Court
Starkey, David, The English Court from the Wars of the Roses to the Civil
War
Streitberger, W. R., Court Revels 1485-1559
Strong, Roy, Art and Power: Renaissance Festivals 1450-1650
Life
outside the Court
Cummins, John, The Art of Medieval Hunting
Heal, Felicity and Clive Holmes, The Gentry in England and Wales 1500-1700
Mertes, Kate, The English Noble Household
1250-1600
Prior, Mary, ed., Women in English Society 1500-1800
Trevor-Roper, H.R., The Gentry
Winchester, Barbara, Tudor Family Portrait
Clothing
and Jewelry
Ashelford, Jane, A Visual History of Costume:
The Sixteenth Century
Banner, Lois, "The Fashionable Sex, 1000-1600," History Today,
4/92
Cunnington, C. Willett, History of Underclothes
Cunnington, C. Willett and Phillis
Cunnington, Handbook of English Costume in the
Sixteenth Century
Cunnington, Phillis, Costume
for Births, Marriages and Deaths
Cunnington, Phillis, Costume
of Household Servants from the Middle Ages to 1900
Debrett's Peerage Limited, Princely Magnificence:
Court Jewels of the Renaissance 1500-1630
Evans, Joan, A History of Jewellery 1100-1870
Hayward, Maria, Dress at the Court of King Henry VIII
Hayward, Maria, Rich Apparel
Lester, Katherine Morris and Bess Viola Oerke,
Accessories of Dress
Lister, Margot, Costumes of Everyday Life: An Illustrated History of Working
Clothes from 900-1910
Norris, Herbert, Tudor Costume and Fashion
Scarisbrick, Diana, Tudor and Jacobean Jewelry
Yarwood, Doreen, The Encyclopedia of World Costume
Architecture
(including gardens)
Christianson, C. Paul, The Riverside Gardens
of Thomas More's London
Dent, John, The Quest for Nonsuch
Field, Robert, Mazes Ancient and Modern
Henderson, Paula, The Tudor House and Garden
Howard, Maurice, The Early Tudor Country House: Architecture and Politics
1490-1550
Keay, Anna, The Elizabethan Tower of London
Landsberg, Sylvia, The Medieval Garden
Robinson, John Martin, Windsor Castle, The Official Illustrated History
Rosser, Gervaise, Medieval Westminster
Rowse, A. L., Windsor Castle in the History of
England
Sanecki, K.N., History
of the English Herb Garden
Schofield, John, Medieval London Houses
Thurley, Simon, The Royal Palaces of Tudor England
Turner, Michael, Eltham Palace
Williams, Neville, The Royal Residences of Great Britain
Wilson, Derek, The Tower of London
Wood, Margaret, The English Medieval House
Art
and Artists
Buck, Stephanie, Hans Holbein the Younger: Painter at the Court of Henry
VIII
Campbell, Thomas P., Henry VIII and the Art of Majesty: Tapestries at the
Tudor Court
Foister, Susan, Holbein and England
Hearn, Karen, Dynasties: Painting in Tudor and Jacobean England
James, Susan E., The Feminine Dynamic in English Art, 1485-1603: Women as
Consumers, Patrons and Painters
Strong, Roy, Artists of the Tudor Court
Strong, Roy, The English Renaissance Miniature
Medicine
and Herbal Lore
Copeman, W.S.C.,
Doctors and Disease in Tudor Times
Culpeper, Nicholas, Culpeper's Complete Herbal
Riddle, John M., Contraception and Abortion from the Ancient World to the
Renaissance
Siraisi, Nancy, Medieval and Renaissance Medicine
Slack, Paul, The Impact of Plague in Tudor and Stuart England
Webster, Charles, ed., Health, Medicine and Mortality in the Sixteenth
Century
Woodward, Marcus, ed.,Gerard's Herball
Travel,
Travelers, and Maps
Camusso, Lorenzo, Travel Guide to Europe 1492
Chandler, John, John Leland's Itinerary: Travels in Tudor England
Crofts, J., Packhorse, Waggon and Post: Land
Carriage and Communications under the Tudors and Stuarts
Harvey, P.D.A., Maps in Tudor England
LaMar, Virginia A., Travel and Roads in England
Speed, John, The Counties of Britain, A Tudor Atlas
Taylor, Christopher, Roads and Tracks of Britain
Taylor, Eva G.R., An Atlas of Tudor England and Wales
Taylor, Eva G. R., Tudor Geography 1485-1583
Rowling, Marjorie, Everyday Life of Medieval Travellers
Intrigue,
Treason, and Rebellions
Fellows, Nicholas, Disorder and Rebellion in Tudor England
Fletcher, Anthony and Diarmaid MacCulloch,
Tudor Rebellions, revised 5th edition
Loades, David, Intrigue and Treason: The Tudor
Court 1547-1558
Loades, David, Two Tudor Conspiracies
Smith, Lacey Baldwin, Treason in Tudor England
Religion
in Tudor England
Collinson, Patrick, Tudor Puritanism
Duffy, Eamon, Marking the Hours: English People
& their Prayers 1240-1579
Duffy, Eamon, The Stripping of the Altars
Power, Eileen, Medieval English Nunneries
Thomas, Keith, Religion and the Decline of Magic
Warren, Nancy Bradley, Spiritual Economics: Female Monasticism in Later
Medieval England
Yardley, Anne Bagnall, Performing Piety: Musical
Culture in Medieval English Nunneries
Collections
of Letters
Byrne, M. St. Clare, The Lisle Letters 6
vols.
Green, Mary Anne Everett, Letters of Royal and Illustrious Ladies of Great
Britain: From the Commencement of the Twelfth Century to the Close of the Reign
of Queen Mary, Volume 2
Starkey, David, Rivals in Power: Lives and Letters of the Great Tudor
Dynasties
BOOKS TO USE WITH EXTREME CAUTION
Hart, Kelly, The Mistresses of Henry VIII
Jones, Philippa, The Other Tudors: Henry VIII's Mistresses and Bastards
Wilkinson, Josephine, Mary Boleyn: The True Story of Henry VIII's Favourite Mistress
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