Books written by Joanne Paul

Thomas More

He later describes how he came across a copy of More's Utopia while working in the British Museum and 'was so struck by his fundamental idea ... Friedrich Engels (1820–95) and Karl Marx (1818–83), the authors of The Communist Manifesto, ...
Thomas More

Thomas More remains one of the most enigmatic thinkers in history, due in large part to the enduring mysteries surrounding his best-known work, Utopia.
The House of Dudley: A New History of the Tudor Era

Here, for the first time, is the story of England's Borgias, a noble house competing in a murderous game for the English throne. Witness cunning, adultery, and sheer audacity from history's most brilliant, bold, and deceitful family.
Governing Diversities: Democracy, Diversity and Human Nature

The contributors to this volume address this fundamental issue by engaging with the history of ideas regarding democracy, diversity and human nature, from the political thought of Xenophon in ancient Greece to practices of Zapatista ...
Queenship and Counsel in Early Modern Europe

... “Ordering Distant Affections: Fostering Love and Loyalty in the Correspondence of Catherine de Medici to the Spanish Court, 1568–72,” in Gender and Emotions in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Destroying Order, Structuring Disorder ...
Counsel and Command in Early Modern English Thought

The first comprehensive study of early modern English political counsel and its association with the discourse of sovereignty.
The House of Dudley: A New History of the Tudor Era

Here, for the first time, is the story of England's Borgias, a noble house competing in a murderous game for the English throne. Witness cunning, adultery, and sheer audacity from history's most brilliant, bold, and deceitful family.
The House of Dudley: A New History of Tudor England

. . I can't recommend this book enough. Unputdownable' LINDSEY FITZHARRIS 'When reading Joanne Paul's lively history of the house of Dudley, it is impossible not to be reminded of Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall trilogy' MAIL ON SUNDAY
The House of Dudley: A New History of Tudor England

Here, for the first time, is the story of England's Borgias, a noble house competing for proximity to the throne through cunning, adultery and sheer audacity, revealing some of the period's most talented, intelligent and cunning individuals ...
The House of Dudley: A New History of Tudor England

Here, for the first time, is the story of England's Borgias, a noble house competing in a murderous game for the English throne. Witness cunning, adultery, and sheer audacity from history's most brilliant, bold, and deceitful family.
A Cultural History of Democracy in the Renaissance

... England, 1640–1660, Aldershot: Ashgate. Nexon, Daniel H. (2009), The Struggle for Power in Early Modern Europe ... Counsel and Command in Early Modern English Thought, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Paul, Joanne and Kurosh ...