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Item Number: 123658
Title: Henry VIII and the Court : Art, Politics and Performance
Author: Betteridge, Thomas ; Suzannah Lipscomb (eds)
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9781409411857
Description: Aldershot: Ashgate, 2013. 24cm., hardcover, 366pp., 19 color illus. Contents: Part I Writing About Henry VIII: Reflecting on the King’s Reformation, G.W. Bernard. Part II Material Culture: Rich pickings: Henry VIII’s use of confiscation and its significance for the development of the royal collection, Maria Hayward; ’As presence did present them’: personal gift-giving at the Field of Cloth of Gold, Glenn Richardson; Cultures of the body, medical regimen, and physic at the Tudor court, Elizabeth T. Hurren. Part III Images: Architectural culture and royal image at the Henrician court, Kent Rawlinson; Wishful thinking: reading the portraits of Henry VIII’s queens, Brett Dolman; Henry VIII and Holbein: patterns and conventions in early modern writing about artists, Tatiana C. String. Part IV Court Culture: Inscribed in memory: the prison poems of Sir Thomas Wyatt, Ruth Ahnert; Receiving the king: Henry VIII at Cambridge, Susan Wabuda; Performing Henry at the court of Rome, Catherine Fletcher. Part V Reactions: Hampton Court, Henry VIII and Cardinal Pole, Eamon Duffy; Henry VIII and the crusade against England, Susan Brugden; One survived: the account of Katherine Parr in Foxe’s 'Book of Martyrs', Thomas S. Freeman. Part VI Performance: Gender and status in John Heywood’s The Play of the Weather, Eleanor Rycroft; Dramatic genre and the court of Henry VIII, Peter Happé; The fall of Anne Boleyn: a crisis in gender relations?, Suzannah Lipscomb. Part VII Afterword: Henry VIII: the view from 2009, Steven.
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