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Hans Holbein was a memorable icon-maker. He established the image of Henry VIII for all time. His standing portrait of the king has influenced every subsequent picture or impersonation. But it is his other, close-up portrait that has real iconic force. This small and portable head-and-should...
At the age of thirty-sixHenry VIIIfell deeply in love withAnne Boleyn, a woman some sixteen years his junior. Henry wrote Anne a series of passionate love letters. In 1526 he told her: "Seeing I cannot be present in person with you, I send you the nearest thing to that possible, tha...
Such didactic lessons set out a question about the extent to which education affects one’s character. It has been made clear that there is no educational determinism theory, but is one’s character built independent of education and is it only affected by the innate qualities or does education...
Sir Thomas left some of his properties to Elizabeth Darrell with “right of reversion” to their son Francis. During the reign of Queen Mary, Elizabeth Darrell finally received the legacy left to her by her beloved Queen Catherine of Aragon. (It had been withheld by Henry VIII.) According ...
VIII Between the idiot and the man of sense, the lunatic and the man of genius, there are degrees–streaks–of idiocy and lunacy. How many expectant politicians elected to Congress have entered Washington all hope, eager to dare and do, to come away broken in health, fame and fortune, ha...
Classroom Activity : Hans Holbein and Henry VIII (Commentary). Classroom lessons activities with primary sources and student questions and answers. AS/A2. England 1485�1558: the Early Tudors (A/S). England 1547�1603: the Later Tudors (A/2)
United Kingdom - Reformation, Henry VIII, Church of England: With Wolsey and his papal authority gone, Henry turned to the authority of the state to obtain his annulment. The so-called Reformation Parliament that first met in November 1529 was unpreceden
Henry VIII Henry VII Anne Boleyn Henry VII inherited a kingdom that was smaller than it had been for over 400 years. For the first time since the 11th century the realm did not include one French province. The only part of France still held by the English was the Marches of Calais, a...
About the time of Easter, in the seventeenth year of the reign of Henry VIII, it happened a certain maiden named Elizabeth Barton... to be touched with a great infirmity in her body, which did ascend at diverse times up into her throat, and swelled greatly, during the time whereof she...