doi:10.21039/rsj.411Soberton, Sylvia BarbaraRoyal Studies Journal
s marriage toAnne Boleyn.) It is presented as a report by a Portuguese traveller namedRaphaelHythloday, whose namederivesfrom the Latinhythlodaeus, “dispenser of nonsense.” Old and grizzled, Hythloday meets More himself inAntwerpand spins stories of a world in which all people work according...
His six wives were, successively, Catherine of Aragon (the mother of the future queen Mary I), Anne Boleyn (the mother of the future queen Elizabeth I), Jane Seymour (the mother of Henry’s successor, Edward VI), Anne of Cleves, Catherine Howard, and Catherine Parr. Accession to the ...