Search

Your search keyword '"Scarisbrick, J.J."' showing total 5 results
Start Over Author "Scarisbrick, J.J." Journal the weekly standard
5 results on '"Scarisbrick, J.J."'

1. Old-Time Religion; The perilous lives of Elizabethan Catholics

Author

Scarisbrick, J.J.

Subjects
Catholics, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

Byline: J.J. Scarisbrick Despite its rather contrived title, this is a fine book: extraordinarily learned, exciting (most of the time), and beautifully written. There is already an enormous body of [...]

Published
2014

2. Henry's Legacies; One family, two generations, and modern England

Author

Scarisbrick, J.J.

Subjects
Henry's Legacies; One Family, Two Generations, and Modern England (Nonfiction work) -- Book reviews, Books -- Book reviews, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

Byline: J.J. Scarisbrick It was brave to embark on this book: so vast is the literature on the period and familiar its highlights. But Peter Ackroyd is energetic and gifted [...]

Published
2013

3. Katherine the Sixth; The art of spousal survival in the aging Henry's court

Author

Scarisbrick, J.J.

Subjects
Katherine Parr: Complete Works and Correspondence (Nonfiction work) -- Mueller, Janel -- Book reviews, Books -- Book reviews, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

Byline: J.J. Scarisbrick Katherine Parr Complete Works and Correspondence edited by Janel Mueller Chicago, 656 pp., $65 It used to be thought that, when England's uxorious Henry VIII made his [...]

Published
2011

4. The Spanish Heroine; Henry's first, and most admirable, wife

Author

Scarisbrick, J.J.

Subjects
Catherine of Aragon: The Spanish Queen of Henry VIII (Biography) -- Tremlett, Giles -- Book reviews, Books -- Book reviews, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

Byline: J.J. Scarisbrick Catherine of Aragon The Spanish Queen of Henry VIII by Giles Tremlett Walker, 448 pp., $28 The quick-fire chapters (50 in 369 pages), their spicy titles (such [...]

Published
2011

5. Good Queen Mary; Another look at the misunderstood Tudor

Author

Scarisbrick, J.J.

Subjects
Fires of Faith Catholic England under Mary Tudor (Biography) -- Book reviews, Books -- Book reviews, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

Fires of Faith Catholic England under Mary Tudor by Eamon Duffy Yale, 280 pp., $28.50 'Sterility was the keynote of her reign,' thundered A.F. Pollard, doyen of Tudor historians in [...]

Published
2009

Catalog

Books, media, physical & digital resources
See catalog results