Henry VII’s New Men and the Making of Tudor England

Henry VII’s New Men and the Making of Tudor England reconstructs in kaleidoscopic detail the lives of Henry VII’s new men. They were low-born ministers with legal, financial, political, and military skills who enforced the king’s will as he sought to strengthen government after the Wars of the Roses, and in the process built their own careers and their families’ fortunes. It examines how they exercised power, gained wealth, and spent it to sustain their new-found status. It establishes their importance in the operation of Henry’s government and, as their careers continued under his son Henry VIII, in the making of Tudor England.