Joanne Paul

Good observation of all Tudor monarchies through the Dudley family, changing loyalties, rising high and falling low.

Joanne Paul writes exceptionally well about complex ideas in their historical context. Through close text reading and a willingness to engage with humanist thought on its own terms, Paul provides illumination and elucidation both of the time period of which she writes, and the emblematic, occasionally contradictory, and fascinating figure of Thomas More.