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King Henry VIII
Standard Name: Henry VIII, King
Used Form: Henry the Eighth
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| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Cary Viscountess Falkland | The play is a Senecan tragedy, written for the closet, not the public stage, though it is worth remembering that upper-class circles reading or performing such plays were connoisseurs of the highly dramatised masque... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Charlotte McCarthy | Following chapters Of Hell, and Judgment and Of the Soul, and Temptation, she laments a growth in sectarianism and decline in good works. In Of the Romish Religion, she criticizes Catholic beliefs and... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Rose Hickman | RH
situates her own story within that of her family, and sets the family story in the context of the clash between the reformed and traditional systems of Christianity. She opens with Of My Father... |
| Textual Production | Jean Plaidy | In the novel Murder Most Royal, JP
viewed Henry VIII
's serial marriages through the eyes of two of his wives (both executed at his command), Anne Boleyn
and Catherine (sometimes Katherine) Howard
... |
| Textual Production | Jean Ingelow | Around the age of fourteen JI
began penning poetry on the window shutters of her bedroom, after having been denied paper by her strictly evangelical mother
. Her earliest surviving poem is Katherine of Aragon |
| Textual Production | Antonia Fraser | AF
turned to a perennially popular subject with her historical study The Six Wives of Henry VIII. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 276 |
| Textual Production | Jean Plaidy | JP
launched under this name another historical trilogy, about Catherine of Aragon
(sometimes spelled Katharine or Katherine), Henry VIII
's first wife, with the Tudor novel Katharine, the Virgin Widow. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
| Textual Production | Jean Plaidy | JP
followed this Tudor novel with another involving Henry VIII
, this time The Sixth Wife, published in 1953, about Katherine Parr
, who married Henry in 1543 (ten years after Anne Boleyn had... |
| Textual Production | Jean Plaidy | |
| Textual Production | Norah Lofts | NL
published another historical work, The Concubine: A Novel Based Upon the Life of Anne Boleyn
, Henry VIII
's Second Wife. Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research, 1981–2025, Numerous volumes. 80 |
| Textual Production | Norah Lofts | Catherine had been replaced in the affections and the dynastic ambitions of Henry VIII
by Anne Boleyn, subject of NL
's 1963 historical novel. |
| Textual Production | Rosemary Sutcliff | The two or three that followed included The Armourer's House, set in the reign of Henry VIII
, 1951, and Brother Dusty-Feet, 1952, in which a boy and his dog run away to... |
| Textual Production | Rose Hickman | |
| Textual Production | Queen Elizabeth I | Princess Elizabeth (later QEI
) sent her father
a New Year's gift: her translation of Katherine Parr
's Prayers or Meditacions into three languages: Latin, French and Italian. Collinson, Patrick. “Little Bastard”. London Review of Books, 6 July 2000, pp. 17-18. 17 |
| Textual Features | Jean Plaidy | In Rose Without a Thorn (in which she returns to the topic of Henry VIII
's fifth wife, Katherine Howard
), she again presents her heroine (realistically considering the age she writes of) in terms... |
Timeline
889-899: King Alfred's last decade was a kind of renaissance...
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889-899
King Alfred
's last decade was a kind of renaissance of learning in his kingdom of Wessex.
Morgan, Kenneth O., editor. The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain. Oxford University Press, 1984.
84-5
1123: St Bartholomew's Hospital was founded in...
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1123
St Bartholomew's Hospital
was founded in London by Rahere
, a courtier of Henry I
and canon of St Paul's Cathedral.
Harte, Negley. The University of London 1836-1986. Athlone, 1986.
52-4, 251
Moore, Norman. The Book of the Foundation of St. Bartholomew’s Church in London. H. Milford/Oxford University Press, 1923.
21 April 1509: King Henry VII died; the next day Henry VIII...
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21 April 1509
King Henry VII
died; the next day Henry VIII
assumed the throne of England. He began his reign by marrying Catherine of Aragon
, widow of his brother Arthur.
Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
42
Steinberg, Sigfrid Henry. Historical Tables: 58 BC-AD 1985. 11th ed., Garland Publishing, 1986.
108
Duffy, Eamon. “The Unlikeliest Loophold”. London Review of Books, Vol.
33
, No. 15, 28 July 2011, pp. 17-18. 17-18
7 September 1513: The English (under the leadership of Catherine...
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7 September 1513
The English (under the leadership of Catherine of Aragon
, queen regent while her husband
was abroad) defeated the Scots at the battle of Flodden Field in Northumberland, just across the border from Coldstream, Scotland.
Guy, John. “The Tudor Age (1485-1603)”. Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, edited by Kenneth O. Morgan, Oxford University Press, 1984, pp. 223-85.
254
By 1514: Mary, daughter of Henry VII (sister of Henry...
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June 1520: Henry VIII met François I in an international...
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June 1520
Henry VIII
met François I
in an international peace summit at Guines in France, later known as the Field of the Cloth of Gold.
Rehder, Robert. “Realism Again: Flauberts Barometer and The Unfortunate TravellerNarrative Strategies in Early English Fiction, edited by Wolfgang Görtschacher and Holger Klein, Edwin Mellen Press, 1995, pp. 241-58.
247
Cameron, Jennifer. A Dangerous Innovator: Mary Ward (1585-1645). St Pauls Publications, 2000.
236
1523: Juan Luis Vives of Valencia, while living...
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1523
Juan Luis Vives
of Valencia, while living in England, wrote Satellitium, a plan of studies for Princess Mary
(daughter of Henry VIII
).
Barbour, Paula L., and Bathsua Makin. “Introduction”. An Essay to Revive the Antient Education of Gentlewomen, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, 1980, p. iii - xi.
v
1527: A young English priest, Thomas Cranmer, wrote...
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1527
A young English priest, Thomas Cranmer
, wrote two letters to Johannes Dantiscus
, whom he had met on a royal mission to the Holy Roman Emperor in Spain, where Dantiscus was then Polish ambassador.
MacCulloch, Diarmaid. “Archives”. Lives for Sale: Biographers’ Tales, edited by Mark Bostridge, Continuum, 2004, pp. 62-7.
63-7
12 April 1533: Anne Boleyn, already secretly married to...
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12 April 1533
Anne Boleyn
, already secretly married to Henry VIII
, was publicly recognised as his consort in the public celebrations of the end of Lent.
Bossy, John. “The Skull from Outer Space”. London Review of Books, 20 Feb. 2003, pp. 29-30.
29, 30
1534: Henry VIII granted a charter to Cambridge...
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1534
Henry VIII
granted a charter to Cambridge University
giving the right to set up a printing press: Cambridge University Press
, the world's earliest surviving publishing house, printed its first book exactly fifty years later.
Bourne, Stephen. “Introduction to Cambridge University Press”. Cambridge University Press: About the Press.
1534: Henry VIII, moving against monastic orders,...
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1534
Henry VIII
, moving against monastic orders, decreed the closure of all convents and their schools.
Lerner, Gerda. The Creation of Feminist Consciousness: From the Middle Ages to Eighteen-Seventy. Oxford University Press, 1993.
199
8 February 1534: Catherine of Aragon wrote a letter to the...
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8 February 1534
Catherine of Aragon
wrote a letter to the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V
(her nephew), seeking to enlist the support of Pope Clement VII
against her husband
's attempts to have their marriage annulled.
Sotheby’s. http://www.sothebys.com.
“Sotheby’s to auction letter from Catherine of Aragon, first wife of Henry VIII”. CBC Diversions, 24 Oct. 2006.
Duffy, Eamon. “The Unlikeliest Loophold”. London Review of Books, Vol.
33
, No. 15, 28 July 2011, pp. 17-18. 17-18
20 April 1534: Elizabeth Barton (often called the Nun—or...
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20 April 1534
Elizabeth Barton
(often called the Nun—or the Fair Maid—of Kent) was executed at Tyburn for seeking the king
's death.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements.
November 1534: The Act of Supremacy declared the monarch,...
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November 1534
The Act of Supremacy declared the monarch, not the Pope
, head of the Church of England.
The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Printed by J. Bentham, 1762–2025.
4: 312
Guy, John. “The Tudor Age (1485-1603)”. Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, edited by Kenneth O. Morgan, Oxford University Press, 1984, pp. 223-85.
245-7
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
146
1535: Royal injunctions by Henry VIII suppressed...
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1535
Royal injunctions by Henry VIII
suppressed the study of canon law in universities, encouraging instead the study of classical Greek, Latin and Hebrew, mathematics and medicine.
Warren, Michael. “A Chronology of State Medicine, Public Health, Welfare and Related Services in Britain: 1066 - 1999”. Michael Warren’s Chronology, 6 Jan. 2003.
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