Author: John Matusiak

Much has been written about Charles Is reign, about the brutal civil war into which his pursuit of unfettered power plunged the realm, and about th...

When Henry VIII passed through Canterbury in 1532, a young woman in her mid-twenties named Elizabeth Barton, widely revered as a visionary and prop...

War, wrote Cardinal Richelieu, is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men. Yet the prelates mournful observation scarcely ...

Few kings have been more savagely caricatured or grossly misunderstood than Englands first Stuart. Yet, as this biography demonstrates, the modern ...

This compelling new account of Henry VIII is by no means yet another history of the old monster and his reign. The monster displayed here is, at th...

This compelling account of Henry VIII is by no means yet another history of the old monster and his reign. The monster displayed here is, at the ve...

Cardinal Wolsey is a controversial figure: a butchers son, a man of letters and the Church, a divisive political expert, a man of principle yet, t...

Cardinal Wolsey is a controversial figure: a butchers son, a man of letters and the Church, a divisive political expert, a man of principle yet, t...

War, wrote Cardinal Richelieu, is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men. Yet the prelates mournful observation scarcely ...

Few kings have been more savagely caricatured or grossly misunderstood than Englands first Stuart. Yet, as this new biography demonstrates, the mod...

This seminal period of British history is a far-off world in which poverty, violence and superstition went hand-in-hand with opulence, religious vi...