Henry VIII remains the most iconic and controversial of all English
Kings. For over four-hundred years he has been lauded, reviled and
mocked, but rarely ignored. In his many guises - model Renaissance
prince, Defender of the Faith, rapacious plunderer of the Church,
obese Bluebeard-- he has featured in numerous works of fact and
faction, in books, magazines, paintings, theatre, film and
television. Yet despite this perennial fascination with Henry the
man and monarch, there has been little comprehensive exploration of
his historiographic legacy. Therefore scholars will welcome this
collection, which provides a systematic survey of Henry's
reputation from his own age through to the present. Divided into
three sections, the volume begins with an examination of Henry's
reputation in the period between his death and the outbreak of the
English Civil War, a time that was to create many of the tropes
that would dominate his historical legacy. The second section deals
with the further evolution of his reputation, from the Restoration
to Edwardian era, a time when Catholic commentators and women
writers began moving into the mainstream of English print culture.
The final section covers the twentieth and twenty-first centuries,
which witnessed an explosion of representations of Henry, both in
print and on screen. Taken together these studies, by a
distinguished group of international scholars, offer a lively and
engaging overview of how Henry's reputation has been used, abused
and manipulated in both academia and popular culture since the
sixteenth century. They provide intriguing insights into how he has
been reinvented at different times to reflect the cultural,
political and religious demands of the moment; sometimes as hero,
sometimes as villain, but always as an unmistakable and iconic
figure in the historical landscape.
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