"I'm drawn to it," he explains, "because it's the moment at which the medieval certainties that had endured for centuries were turned upside down. But as he talks on, it becomes clear that Sansom's is the disapproval of an expert, not a cynic a man whose grasp of the period is so broad and deep that he looks with faint bemusement at those who construe it as one long cavalcade of skulduggery and sex. I like to get away from that." This is, on the face of it, a curious position for the creator of Matthew Shardlake, the "Tudor Morse" whose adventures amid the religious wrangling and rolling heads of Henry VIII's England have done much to fan the flames of Tudormania in recent years. C J Sansom winces at the mention of The Tudors, the BBC's recent dramatisation of the life of Henry VIII, starring a pouting Jonathan Rhys Meyers.
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