Umfang:
1 online resource (292 pages)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780754698654
Inhalt:
Henry VIII remains the most iconic, controversial and enigmatic of all English Kings. For over four-hundred years he has been lauded, reviled and mocked, but rarely ignored. In this collection, Henry's historical reputation is systematically examined, charting the various ways it has been manipulated and presented since the sixteenth century, constantly being reinvented at different times to reflect the cultural, political and religious needs of the moment.
Inhalt:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: All is True - Henry VIII In and Out of History -- 1 Harry's Peregrinations: a nItalianate defence of Henry VIII -- 2 From Perfect Prince to 'Wise and Pollitike' King: Henry VIII in Edward Hall's Chronicle -- 3 'It is perillous stryvinge withe princes': Henry VIII in Works by Pole, Roper, and Harpsfield -- 4 Hands Defiled with Blood: Henry VIII in Foxe's 'Book of martyrs' -- 5 Fallen Prince and Pretender of the Faith: Henry VIII as seen by s ander and Persons -- 6 'It is unpossible to draw his Picture well who hath severall countenances': Lord Herbert of Cherbury and The Life and Reign of King Henry VIII -- 7 Henry VIII in History: Gilbert Burnet's History of the Reformation (v. 1), 1679 -- 8 'Unblushing Falsehood': The Strickland Sisters and the Domestic History of Henry VIII -- 9 Ford Madox Ford's Fifth Queen and the Modernity of Henry VIII -- 10 The 'Sexual Everyman'? Maxwell Anderson's Henry VIII -- 11 Drama King: The Portrayal of Henry VIII in Robert Bolt's A Man for All Seasons -- 12 'Anne taught him how to be cruel': Henry VIII in Modern Historical Fiction -- 13 Booby, Baby or Classical monster? Henry VIII in the Writings of G. R. Elton and J. J. Scarisbrick -- 14 Through the Eyes of a Fool: Henry VIII and Margaret George's 1986 novel The Autobiography of Henry VIII: With Notes by His Fool, Will Somers -- Index.
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Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781409400158
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781409400158
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Electronic books
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