Henry VIII and history

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Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Betteridge, Thomas, Freeman, Thomas S., 1959-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Farnham ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, 2012.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: All is true : Henry VIII in and out of history / Thomas Betteridge and Thomas S. Freeman
  • Harry's peregrinations: an Italianate defence of Henry VIII / Brett Foster
  • From perfect prince to "wise and pollitike" king: Henry VIII in Edward Hall's Chronicle / Scott Lucas
  • "It is perillous stryvinge withe princes": Henry VIII in works by Pole, Roper, and Harpsfield / Carolyn Colbert
  • Hands defiled with blood: Henry VIII in Foxe's "Book of martyrs" / Thomas S. Freeman
  • Fallen prince pretender of the faith: Henry VIII as seen by Sander and Parsons / Victor Houliston
  • "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 / Christine Jackson
  • Henry VIII in history: Gilbert Burnet's History of the Reformation (v. 1), 1679 / Andrew Starkie
  • "Unblushing falsehood": the Strickland sisters and the domestic history of Henry VIII / Judith Richards
  • Ford Madox Ford's fifth queen and the modernity of Henry VIII / Anthony & Susannah Monta
  • The "sexual everyman"? Maxwell Anderson's Henry VIII / Glen Richardson
  • Drama king: the portrayal of Henry VIII in Robert Bolt's A man for all seasons / Ruth Ahnert
  • "Anne taught him how to be cruel": Henry VIII in modern historical fiction / Megan Hickerson
  • Booby, baby or classical monster? Henry VIII in the writings of G.R. Elton and J.J. Scarisbrick / Dale Hoak
  • 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 / Kristen Walton.