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Title: The Age of Plunder: The England of Henry VIII (Social and Economic History of England) by W. G. Hoskins ISBN: 0-582-48544-4 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 01 February, 1988 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.10

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Average Customer Rating: 3 (2 reviews)

Rating: 1
Summary: Hatchet job on a hero
Comment: Henry VIII had the courage to stand up to the pope after centuries of papist domination of the English people. He may have commited atrocities in his own time, but his bold move guaranteed English freedom for the generations after.

Rating: 5
Summary: The title says it all, really...
Comment: That Henry VIII was, without exception, the worst king ever to rule England, is no longer a very daring proposition to make; the comparison of this bloated and suspicious tyrant with Stalin, made in the final paragraphs of this excellent study, is by now, if not exactly scholarly orthodoxy - writers will always be found to defend the indefensible, if the indefensible has something to do with English self-regard - at least a well-known and legitimate point of view. The importance of this textbook is that, before coming to its devastating conclusions, it gives an excellent, nuanced and expert account of the whole economic condition of England in the fat murderer's time, including all the many sides in which his execrable reign did not and could not make a great amount of difference to his subjects; so that, by the time the savage condemnation of Hoskins' final paragraphs falls like a guillotine, the reader not only has all the evidence necessary to appreciate it, but also has seen enough to know that the account, though hostile, is rigorously fair and comprehensive. The condemnation is therefore that much more significant and conclusive.