Henry VIII: History in an Hour

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Simon Court. Henry VIII: History in an Hour

HENRY VIIIHistory in an Hour. Simon Court

Contents

Introduction

The ‘Virtuous Prince’

Jousting and the Heraldic Past

The King of England and of France

The Field of Cloth of Gold

The ‘King’s Great Matter’

The Break with Rome

‘The Goggle-eyed Whore’: Anne Boleyn

A King is Born

The Reformation and the Dissolution of the Monasteries

The ‘Fat Flanders Mare’: Anne of Cleves

The Gruesome End of Thomas Cromwell

The ‘Lewd and Naughty’ Catherine Howard

Death and Succession

Personality as Political Policy

Henry Tudor: Psychological Post-mortem

Appendix 1: Key Players. Catherine of Aragon (1485–1536)

Thomas Wolsey (1473–1530)

Thomas More (1478–1535)

Anne Boleyn (1501/7–36)

Jane Seymour (1508–37)

Thomas Cromwell (1485–1540)

Anne of Cleves (1515–57)

Catherine Howard (1523–42)

Catherine Parr (1512–48)

Thomas Cranmer (1489-1556)

Appendix 2: Timeline

Copyright

Got Another Hour?

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Cover

Title Page

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The ‘Fat Flanders Mare’: Anne of Cleves

The Gruesome End of Thomas Cromwell

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