The Boleyns
The Boleyns

Author: Amanda Harvey Purse

Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited

Published: 2022-10-15

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 1398100234

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Starting with Anne Boleyn, wife of Henry VIII, Amanda Harvey Purse looks at significant Boleyns through history, shining a spotlight on how their story has been entwined with that of the British monarchy for almost 500 years.

Prophecy, Politics and the People in Early Modern England
Prophecy, Politics and the People in Early Modern England

Author: Tim Thornton

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 9781843832591

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Thornton also sheds light on areas where popular culture and politics were uneasily interlinked: the powerful political influence of those outside elite groups; the variations in political culture across the country; and the considerable continuing power of mystical, supernatural, and 'non-rational' ideas in British social and political life into the nineteenth century."--Jacket.

Greeks, Romans, and Pilgrims
Greeks, Romans, and Pilgrims

Author: David A. Lupher

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2017-09-11

Total Pages: 437

ISBN-13: 9004351191

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In Greeks, Romans, and Pilgrims David Lupher examines the availability, circulation, and uses of Greek and Roman culture in the earliest period of the British settlement of New England. This book offers the first systematic correction to the dominant assumption that the Separatist settlers of Plymouth Plantation (the so-called “Pilgrims”) were hostile or indifferent to “humane learning”— a belief dating back to their cordial enemy, the May-pole reveler Thomas Morton of Ma-re Mount, whose own eccentric classical negotiations receive a chapter in this book. While there have been numerous studies of the uses of classical culture during the Revolutionary period of colonial North America, the first decades of settlement in New England have been neglected. Utilizing both familiar texts such as William Bradford’s Of Plimmoth Plantation and overlooked archival sources, Greeks, Romans, and Pilgrims signals the end of that neglect.

The Letterbooks of John Evelyn
The Letterbooks of John Evelyn

Author: Douglas D.C. Chambers

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2014-01-01

Total Pages: 1303

ISBN-13: 1442647868

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The Letterbooks of John Evelyn, a collection of more than eight hundred letters selected by Evelyn himself, constitutes an essential new resource for scholars of seventeenth-century England.

The Foreign Relations of Elizabeth I
The Foreign Relations of Elizabeth I

Author: C. Beem

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2011-04-11

Total Pages: 367

ISBN-13: 0230118550

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This edited volume brings together a collection of provocative essays examining a number of different facets of Elizabethan foreign affairs, encompassing England and The British Isles, Europe, and the dynamic civilization of Islam. As an entirely domestic queen who never physically left her realm, Elizabeth I cast an inordinately wide shadow in the world around her. The essays is this volume collectively reveal a queen and her kingdom much more connected and integrated into a much wider world than usually discussed in conventional studies of Elizabethan foreign affairs.

Music in Elizabethan Court Politics
Music in Elizabethan Court Politics

Author: Katherine Butler (Music tutor)

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1843839814

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Music and musical entertainments are here shown to be used for different ends, by both monarch and courtiers.

Afterlife of Mary, Queen of Scots
Afterlife of Mary, Queen of Scots

Author: Steven J. Reid

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2024-04-30

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13: 1399523554

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Mary Queen of Scots (1542-1587) was active as monarch of Scotland for just six years between 1561 and 1567, but her impact as a ruler in Scotland is much less important than her subsequent role in popular culture and imagination. Her story has enjoyed perpetual retelling and reached a global audience over the past four and a half centuries. This collection surveys the exceptionally varied range of objects, literature, art and media that have been produced to commemorate Mary between her own time and the present day. Why is her story so enduring, pervasive, and of such interest to so many different audiences? How have the narratives associated with these objects evolved in response to shifting cultural attitudes? The collection offers a much-needed novel perspective on the Queen of Scots, using an approach at the intersection of early modern, gender and cultural history, museum and heritage studies, and memory studies.

Anne Boleyn, An Illustrated Life of Henry VIII's Queen
Anne Boleyn, An Illustrated Life of Henry VIII's Queen

Author: Roland Hui

Publisher: Pen and Sword History

Published: 2023-03-09

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 1399087584

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If you remember my love in your prayers as strongly as I adore you, I shall hardly be forgotten, for I am yours,' - Henry Rex, forever Written by King Henry VIII to his sweetheart, the seductive and vivacious Anne Boleyn, his passion for her would be so great that Henry would make Anne his queen, and change the course of English history. But the woman whom Henry had promised to love for all time would go from palace to prison, charged with heinous crimes. Her life ended on a bloody scaffold in the Tower of London. Explore the incredible story of Anne Boleyn, the most famous and controversial of Henry VIII's six wives, in this exciting new account of her life told in words and pictures.