Wicked Women Of Tudor England
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Author | : R. Warnicke |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 275 |
Release | : 2012-05-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0230391931 |
This fascinating study delves into the lives of six Tudor women celebrated for their reputed wickedness. Collected here are accounts of Anne Boleyn, Katherine Howard, Anne Seymour, Lettice Dudley, and Jane and Alice More. Warnicke rescues these women from historical misrepresentations and helps us to rediscover the complex world of Tudor society.
Author | : R. Warnicke |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 516 |
Release | : 2012-05-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0230391931 |
This fascinating study delves into the lives of six Tudor women celebrated for their reputed wickedness. Collected here are accounts of Anne Boleyn, Katherine Howard, Anne Seymour, Lettice Dudley, and Jane and Alice More. Warnicke rescues these women from historical misrepresentations and helps us to rediscover the complex world of Tudor society.
Author | : Alison Plowden |
Publisher | : The History Press |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2011-07-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0752467166 |
The Tudor era belongs to its women. No other period of English history has produced so many notable and interesting women, and into other periods have they so powerfully influenced the course of political events. Mary Tudor, Elizabeth I and, at moments of high drama, Mary Queen of Scots dominated the political scene for more than half a century, while in the previous fifty years Henry VIII's marital escapades brought six more women to the centre of attention. In this book the women of the royal family are the central characters; the royal women set the style and between them they provide a dazzling variety of personalities as well as illustrating almost every aspect of life as it affected women in Tudor England. We know what they ate, how they dressed, the books they read and the letters they wrote. Even the greatest of them suffered the universal legal and physiological disabilities of womanhood - some survived them, some went under. Now revised and updated, Alison Plowden's beautifully written account of the women behind the scenes and at the forefront of sixteenth-century English history will be welcomed by anyone interested in exploring this popular period of history from the point of view of the women who made it.
Author | : Jane Buchanan |
Publisher | : Children's Press(CT) |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : 9780531125953 |
Learn about the first ruling queen of England.
Author | : Elizabeth Norton |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2017-07-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1681774909 |
The turbulent Tudor Age never fails to capture the imagination. But what was it truly like to be a woman during this era? The Tudor period conjures up images of queens and noblewomen in elaborate court dress; of palace intrigue and dramatic politics. But if you were a woman, it was also a time when death during childbirth was rife; when marriage was usually a legal contract, not a matter for love, and the education you could hope to receive was minimal at best. Yet the Tudor century was also dominated by powerful and dynamic women in a way that no era had been before. Historian Elizabeth Norton explores the life cycle of the Tudor woman, from childhood to old age, through the diverging examples of women such as Elizabeth Tudor, Henry VIII’s sister; Cecily Burbage, Elizabeth's wet nurse; Mary Howard, widowed but influential at court; Elizabeth Boleyn, mother of a controversial queen; and Elizabeth Barton, a peasant girl who would be lauded as a prophetess. Their stories are interwoven with studies of topics ranging from Tudor toys to contraception to witchcraft, painting a portrait of the lives of queens and serving maids, nuns and harlots, widows and chaperones. Norton brings this vibrant period to colorful life in an evocative and insightful social history.
Author | : Alison Plowden |
Publisher | : Sutton Publishing |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : England |
ISBN | : 9780750920056 |
In this book the women of the royal family are the central characters; the royal women set the style and between them they provide a dazzling variety of personalities as well as illustrating almost every aspect of life as it affected women in Tudor England. We know what they ate, how they dressed, the books they read and the letters they wrote. Even the greatest of them suffered the universal legal and physiological disabilities of womanhood - some survived them, some triumphed over them and some went under.
Author | : Peter Ackroyd |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 528 |
Release | : 2013-10-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 125003759X |
Peter Ackroyd, one of Britain's most acclaimed writers, brings the age of the Tudors to vivid life in this monumental book in his The History of England series, charting the course of English history from Henry VIII's cataclysmic break with Rome to the epic rule of Elizabeth I. Rich in detail and atmosphere, Peter Ackroyd's Tudors is the story of Henry VIII's relentless pursuit of both the perfect wife and the perfect heir; of how the brief reign of the teenage king, Edward VI, gave way to the violent reimposition of Catholicism and the stench of bonfires under "Bloody Mary." It tells, too, of the long reign of Elizabeth I, which, though marked by civil strife, plots against the queen and even an invasion force, finally brought stability. Above all, however, it is the story of the English Reformation and the making of the Anglican Church. At the beginning of the sixteenth century, England was still largely feudal and looked to Rome for direction; at its end, it was a country where good governance was the duty of the state, not the church, and where men and women began to look to themselves for answers rather than to those who ruled them.
Author | : Sean Price |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780531185506 |
Describes the life of Henry VIII, from his childhood and ascension to the throne to his infamous multiple marriages and conflicts with the Catholic church.
Author | : Retha M. Warnicke |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2017-09-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 3319563815 |
This study of early modern queenship compares the reign of Henry VII’s queen, Elizabeth of York, and those of her daughters-in-law, the six queens of Henry VIII. It defines the traditional expectations for effective Tudor queens—particularly the queen’s critical function of producing an heir—and evaluates them within that framework, before moving to consider their other contributions to the well-being of the court. This fresh comparative approach emphasizes spheres of influence rather than chronology, finding surprising juxtapositions between the various queens’ experiences as mothers, diplomats, participants in secular and religious rituals, domestic managers, and more. More than a series of biographies of individual queens, Elizabeth of York and Her Six Daughters-in-Law is a careful, illuminating examination of the nature of Tudor queenship.
Author | : Sarah Morris |
Publisher | : Amberley Publishing Limited |
Total Pages | : 634 |
Release | : 2013-09-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1445635364 |
The visitor's companion to the palaces, castles & houses associated with Henry VIII's infamous wife.