Henry VIII and history
By: [edited by] Thomas Betteridge and Thomas S. Freeman
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781409400158; 9780754698654
Subjects: Historiography; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: All is true : Henry VIII in and out of history / Thomas Betteridge and Thomas S. Freeman; title: Harry's peregrinations: an Italianate defence of Henry VIII / Brett Foster; title: From perfect prince to "wise and pollitike" king: Henry VIII in Edward Hall's Chronicle / Scott Lucas; title: "It is perillous stryvinge withe princes": Henry VIII in works by Pole, Roper, and Harpsfield / Carolyn Colbert; title: Hands defiled with blood: Henry VIII in Foxe's "Book of martyrs" / Thomas S. Freeman; title: Fallen prince pretender of the faith: Henry VIII as seen by Sander and Parsons / Victor Houliston; title: "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; title: Henry VIII in history: Gilbert Burnet's History of the Reformation (v. 1), 1679 / Andrew Starkie; title: "Unblushing falsehood": the Strickland sisters and the domestic history of Henry VIII / Judith Richards; title: Ford Madox Ford's fifth queen and the modernity of Henry VIII / Anthony & Susannah Monta; title: The "sexual everyman"? Maxwell Anderson's Henry VIII / Glen Richardson; title: Drama king: the portrayal of Henry VIII in Robert Bolt's A man for all seasons / Ruth Ahnert; title: "Anne taught him how to be cruel": Henry VIII in modern historical fiction / Megan Hickerson; title: Booby, baby or classical monster? Henry VIII in the writings of G.R. Elton and J.J. Scarisbrick / Dale Hoak; title: 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.