Ursula Naumann, born in 1945, lives in Erlangen where she works as a freelance author. Her meticulously researched and brilliantly written biographical accounts have been published by Insel Verlag, C. H. Beck and Andere Bibliothek. In 2014, she was awarded the Friedrich Baur Prize by the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts.
Ursula Naumann, born in 1945, lives in Erlangen where she works as a freelance author. Her meticulously researched and brilliantly written biographical accounts have been published by Insel Verlag, C. H. Beck and Andere Bibliothek. In 2014, she was awarded the Friedrich Baur Prize by the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts.
Early in the morning of August 20, 1860, the East-Prussian jurist Gustav Bergenroth arrives in Simancas, an isolated village in Castile. His destination: the official archive of the Crown of Castile, an ancient castle fortified with thick walls, moats, towers and battlements, which has only recently become accessible to researchers. He wishes to conduct research on the Tudor period, the most...