'1536' focuses on a pivotal year in the life of Henry VIII, revealing a fuller portrait of this complex monarch and detailing the finer shades of humanity that have so long been overlooked.
The stereotype of Henry VIII presents us with the image of a corpulent, covetous, and cunning king whose appetite for worldly goods met few parallels and whose religion was ever political in intent. This work presents a portrait of this complex monarch, detailing the finer shades of humanity that have so long been overlooked.
Henry VIII is known stereotypically as a corpulent, covetous, and cunning king whose appetite for worldly goods met few parallels, whose wives met infamously premature ends, and whose religion was largely political in intent. By focusing on a pivotal year in the life of Henry, this study moves beyond the caricature to reveal a fuller portrait of this complex monarch. In 1536, Henry met many failures—physical, personal, and political—and emerged from them a different man and a revolutionary new king who proceeded to transform a nation and a religion.
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| Preface |
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PART ONE - Setting the Scene |
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PART TWO - The Crisis of Masculinity |
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PART THREE - The King's Religion |
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The Reformation in England |
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1536: The Church Established |
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The Role of Henry VIII in Later Reformation |
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The Aftermath of the Reformation |
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PART FOUR - Henry the Tyrant |
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Did Henry VIII Become a Tyrant? |
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| Epilogue |
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| Appendix 1 Timeline of 1536 |
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| Appendix 2 Henry VIII's Wives |
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| Appendix 3 The Cost of Living in Henry VIII's Reign |
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| Notes |
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| Further Reading |
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Dr Suzannah Lipscomb is an historian, author, broadcaster and award-winning academic. She is Senior Lecturer and Convenor for History at New College of the Humanities. Suzannah is the author of a number of books including 1536: The Year that Changed Henry VIII. Suzannahs TV work includes: presenting Bloody Tales of the Tower (NatGeo), The Book Show, Secret Lives (History, Canada) and Inside the World of Henry VIII (History, UK), plus appearances on The One Show , The Great British Weather Show , GMTV, Museum Secrets (History, Canada), Martyrs for the Book (PBS), BBC News, ITV London and Globo-TV. As a royal historian, she commentated live from a studio at Buckingham Palace on the Royal Wedding for CTV. She regularly appears on Time Team (Season 20, Channel 4) and Sky News Sunrise reviewing the papers. A second series of Bloody Tales for NatGeo and a history programme for BBC4 have been commissioned for 2013. Suzannahs radio work includes presenting BBC Radio 3s The Essay, presenters friend on BBC Radio 5 Live and LBC, and appearances on BBC Radio 4s The Today Programme and Six OClock News, BBC Radio 5 Live, LBC, NPR and many local radio stations. Her journalism has appeared in The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Telegraph, BBC History Magazine and History Today. Suzannah has a double first in BA History and M.St. in Historical Research from Lincoln College, Oxford and D.Phil. in History from Balliol College, Oxford, where she was a Jowett Senior Scholar. Her previous positions include Royal Historical Society Marshall Research Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research and Research Curator at Hampton Court Palace. Suzannah continues to hold a post as Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of East Anglia. She is a consultant to Historic Royal Palaces and a School Governor at Epsom College. For further details of Suzannahs education and career, visit her website: http://suzannahlipscomb.com.
