The Tudors, under whose able guidance England rose magnificently to great occasions and experienced  something of a Golden Age, have long captivated the popular imagination.

          Professor Bindof shows the England which the first Tudor so dubiously claimed, and the last handed over so securely to her successor, as a living and growing society in which each problem presented the possibility of various solutions and no conclusion was, to contemporaries, foregone. In taking the reader back to the sixteenth-century scene he has preserved for him the excitement of living history with a future still to be made.