...Catherine Sanok While recent arguments for the saint play as a formal influence on the Shakespearean history play rely on a teleological notion of “secularization,” they may encourage us to rethink the genealogy of Shakespeare's earliest history plays, plays about the reign of Henry VI, who...

...Timothy D. Arner The wounding of a young Henry V at the Battle of Shrewsbury in 1403 has only recently begun to be taken seriously as a major trauma. This essay considers the differences between narratives of the battle in Lancastrian texts and the firsthand account of how John Bradmore removed...

...Nathalie Rivère de Carles Sir Henry Wotton’s definition of an ambassador as “an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country” should be confronted with his later assessment that the ambassador “should alwayes, and upon all occasions speak the truth … ’twill also put [his] Adversaries...

... in the metropolitan area. Living cheek by jowl with felonious sanctuary seekers, the strangers came to share both a conceptual and a physical space with the felons who sought St. Martin’s sanctuary privilege. In the reign of Henry VIII, the control of labor and retailing came to be tightly imbricated with the larger...

...Clarissa Chenovick Henry of Lancaster's Livre de Seyntz Medicines is a vividly medicalized penitential narrative composed by a leading lay nobleman of fourteenth-century England. Grounded in the physiology of the medieval heart, Lancaster's understudied Livre demonstrates how medieval medical...

...Thomas A. Prendergast © by Duke University Press 2002 a The Invisible Spouse: Henry VI, Arthur, and the Fifteenth-Century Subject Thomas...

...Nicole R. Rice This essay considers a critical moment in Chester’s premodern dramatic history. In summer 1578, the Shepherds pageant, formerly produced by the Painters and Glaziers Company within the town’s cycle of religious plays, was revived as part of a three-part civic spectacle honoring Henry...

... d’Anjou and negotiations that followed the abandonment of those marriages, as discussed in letters written in 1569–73 and 1581 by Francis Walsingham, Thomas Smith, Henry Norris, and others, often in correspondence with Lord Burghley. The title page describes the Ambassador as having been “Faithfully...

... to proportion the New Testament church in relation to layered Jewish tradition. Yet, by the early seventeenth century, the separatist Henry Ainsworth began to make more extensive, even promiscuous, use of Maimonides. This signaled movement away from simply attempting to “own the Hebrew doctors” to conscripting...

...Patricia Phillippy Following three-year-old Henry Montagu’s death in 1625, his father installed a memorial comprised of three objects in Barnwell All Saints Church. In addition to an alabaster monument, Sidney Montagu incorporated into his memorial program a thirteenth-century piscina (a basin...

... the work straight into the problematic inheritance of Galfridian history, recently discredited at Henry VIII's court by the Italian humanist Polydore Vergil. Elyot presents, only to dismiss, medieval legendary origins for Albion and Britain, using what he calls similitudo to find alternative explanations...

... in the Histories of Perkin Warbeck Elizabeth Allen University of California, Irvine Irvine, California The story of Perkin Warbeck, pretender to the throne of Henry VII, began in sanctuary...

... Chronicles, Rastell uses history as a vehicle for dissent, in partic- ular to register his distaste for the domestic results of Henry VIII’s French wars. Rastell’s Pastyme demonstrates that English historical writing did not always construct “its readers as hereditary subjects of the English kings whose...

... Diggelmann University of Auckland Auckland, New Zealand During the blazing summer of 1188 Philip II of France met his rival and vas- sal, Henry II of England and Normandy, near Gisors on the Epte. This had been a customary venue of conferences...

... Queen, First Recusant Martyr Amy Appleford Boston University Boston, Massachusetts The martyr’s palm, the victor’s crown Near the end of Shakespeare’s All Is True, after Henry...

... one: Once upon a time the people of England were happy Medieval Catholics, visiting their holy wells, attending frequent masses and deeply respectful of purgatory and afraid of Hell. Then lustful King Henry forced them to abandon their religion. England...

... of the East-West schism to the fall of Constantinople. This article argues that examples drawn from Greek Christian history, beliefs, and writings served multiple apologetic purposes, including theological, ecclesiastical, and political ends. For defenders of Henry's case for the annulment of his marriage...

... These witnesses point toward the circulation of Wycliffite bibles among elite readers in Tudor England. Elizabeth was not the first monarch to own such a manuscript. Her father, Henry VIII, owned two, one of which he had inherited, and the copy found in Cambridge MS Mm.2.15 has a very clear connection...

... of transubstantiation and scriptural translation, I want to take a perhaps somewhat unexpected detour from More writing about the Eucharist in London in the 1530s to consider a mass held by Henry VIII at Calais in October 1532, shortly after the appearance of the second edition of the Dialogue Concerning Heresies...