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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.
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.
New contributions to the most important critical debates of the
period. The themes of 'image' and 'representation' play a major
part in the essays collected in this volume; subjects explored
include the religious sympathies of townsfolk and gentry and their
physical manifestations, the cultural setting for the activities of
leading families of the period and the interaction of Crown and
community of the realm. As the fruit of original archival research
on the later Middle Ages, overall the contributions offer the most
up-to-date scholarship on the period, and a snapshot of the most
crucial issues in current research. Contributors: CLIVE BURGESS,
PAUL CAVILL, JON DENTON, THOMAS S. FREEMAN, ALASDAIR HAWKYARD,
STEPHEN MILESON, JENNI NUTTALL, COLIN RICHMOND, ANNE F. SUTTON
Concepts of Christian martyrdom changed greatly in England from the
late middle ages through the early modern era. The variety of
paradigms of Christian martyrdom (with, for example, virginity or
asceticism perceived as alternate forms of martyrdom) that existed
in the late medieval period, came to be replaced during the English
Reformation with a single dominant idea of martyrdom: that of
violent death endured for orthodox religion. Yet during the
seventeenth century another transformation in conceptions of
martyrdom took place, as those who died on behalf of overtly
political causes came to be regarded as martyrs, indistinguishable
from those who died for Christ. The articles in this book explore
these seminal changes across the period from 1400-1700, analyzing
the political, social and religious backgrounds to these
developments. While much that has been written on martyrs,
martyrdom and martyrologies has tended to focus on those who died
for a particular confession or cause, this book shows how the
concepts of martyrdom were shaped, altered and re-shaped through
the interactions between these groups. THOMAS S. FREEMAN is
Research Officer at the British Academy John Foxe Project, which is
affiliated with the University of Sheffield. THOMAS F. MAYER is
Professor of History at Augustana College. Contributors: JOHN
COFFEY, BRAD S. GREGORY, VICTOR HOULISTON, ANDREW LACEY, DANNA
PIROYANSKY, RICHARD REX, ALEC RYRIE, WILLIAM WIZEMAN
The essays in this volume seek to analyze biographical films as
representations of historical individuals and the times in which
they lived. To do this, contributors examine the context in which
certain biographical films were made, including the state of
knowledge about their subjects at that moment, and what these films
reveal about the values and purposes of those who created them.
This is an original approach to biographical (as opposed to
historical) films and one that has so far played little part in the
growing literature on historical films. The films discussed here
date from the 1920s to the 2010s, and deal with males and females
in periods ranging from the Middle Ages to the end of the twentieth
century. In the process, the book discusses how biographical films
reflect changing attitudes towards issues such as race, gender and
sexuality, and examines the influence of these films on popular
perceptions of the past. The introduction analyses the nature of
biographical films as a genre: it compares and contrasts the nature
of biography on film with written biographies, and considers their
relationship with the discipline of history. As the first
collection of essays on this popular but understudied genre, this
book will be of interest to historians as well as those in film and
cultural studies.
John Foxe's Acts and Monuments - popularly known as the 'Book of
Martyrs' - is a milestone in the history of the English book. An
essential history of the English Reformation and a seminal product
of it, no English printed book before it had been as long or as
lavishly illustrated. Examining the research behind the work and
also its financing, printing and dissemination, Elizabeth Evenden
and Thomas S. Freeman argue that, apart from Foxe's zeal and
industry, the book was only made possible by extensive cooperation
between its printer, John Day, and the Elizabethan government.
Government patronage, rather than market forces, lay behind the
book's success and ensured the triumph of a Protestant
interpretation of the Reformation for centuries to come. Based on
little-used manuscript sources, this book offers a unique insight
not only into the 'Book of Martyrs' and the history of the English
book, but into English history itself.
John Foxe's Acts and Monuments - popularly known as the 'Book of
Martyrs' - is a milestone in the history of the English book. An
essential history of the English Reformation and a seminal product
of it, no English printed book before it had been as long or as
lavishly illustrated. Examining the research behind the work and
also its financing, printing and dissemination, Elizabeth Evenden
and Thomas S. Freeman argue that, apart from Foxe's zeal and
industry, the book was only made possible by extensive cooperation
between its printer, John Day, and the Elizabethan government.
Government patronage, rather than market forces, lay behind the
book's success and ensured the triumph of a Protestant
interpretation of the Reformation for centuries to come. Based on
little-used manuscript sources, this book offers a unique insight
not only into the 'Book of Martyrs' and the history of the English
book, but into English history itself.
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