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Henry VIII : a European court in England / edited by David Starkey.

Title: Henry VIII : a European court in England / edited by David Starkey.
Publication: London : Collins & Brown in association with the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, 1991.

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192 p. : ill. (some col.), map, plans, ports.; 29 cm.

Summary

Offering a reconstruction of Henry's Palace at Greenwich, this book also provides an evocation of the splendour and richness of incident of his reign. It was at Greenwich that Henry was born in 1491, spent two-thirds of his life and married the first of his six wives, Catherine of Aragon. Elizabeth, the daughter of Henry and his tragic second wife, Anne Boleyn, was born and christened there, his marriage with Anne of Cleves failed there and he visited the Royal Palace just three weeks before his death at Whitehall in 1547. The book provides a reassessment of Henry as a true prince of the Renaissance, presiding over a court which made London a major European cultural centre. The text is interwoven with specialist essays on such topics as armour, medals and the education of Anne Boleyn. The author's previous books include "The Struggle for Power: The Lives and Letters of the Great Tudor Dynasties".

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Catalog of an exhibition held at the National Maritime Museum in 1991.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 182-186) and index.

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Contents

Introduction : the legacy of Henry VIII / by David Starkey -- Greenwich and the river : early Tudor London / by Rosemary Weinstein -- Greenwich Palace / by Simon Thurley -- The friar's church : christening and marriage -- Stained glass in Henry VIII's palaces / by Hilary Wayment -- The tiltyard : the jousts of July 1517 -- Henry VIII and the founding of the Greenwich armouries / by Karen Watts -- The Tudor tournament / by Steven Gunn -- The field of cloth of gold, 1520 -- The banqueting house : the reception of 1527 -- Holbein as court painter / by Susan Foister -- The banqueting and disguising houses of 1527 / by Simon Thurley -- Nicolaus Kratzer : the king's astronomer and Renaissance instrument-maker / by Willem Hackmann -- A diplomatic revolution? Anglo-French relations and the treaties of 1527 / by Charles Giry-Deloison -- Illuminated manuscripts and the development of the portrait miniature / by Janet Backhouse -- The orders of the Garter and St Michael -- The great hall : a royal christening, 1533 -- Music at the court of Henry VIII / by Peter Holman -- Anne Boleyn as patron / by Maria Dowling -- Goldsmiths and their work at the court of Henry VIII / by Hugh Tait -- Acton Court and the progress of 1535 -- The royal visit to Acton Court in 1535 : by Robert Bell -- The presence chamber : new year, 1538 -- Plate and gift-giving at court / by Philippa Glanville -- The gentlement pensioners, 1539 -- The bedchamber : the Cleves marriage, 1540 -- Fatal matrimony : Henry VIII and the marriage to Anne of Cleves / by Rory MacEntegart -- Henry VIII and mapmaking / by Peter Barber -- Greenwich and Henry VIII's royal library / by James Carley -- The religion of Henry VIII / by Diamaid MacCulloch -- The sports of kings / by Simon Thurley -- Henry VIII and the Navy -- Henry VIII : the real founder of the Navy? / by David Loades.

ISBN

1855850087 :
1855850133 (pbk.)

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^^^92155512^

OCLC

27428566

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Harvard Library