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The Norman Conquest: The Battle of Hastings and the Fall of Anglo-Saxon England
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Northumberland had miscalculated badly. Few of the dead king’s subjects were yet as devoted to the reformed religion as Edward himself – and even fewer, it turned out, devoted enough to overturn the succession of Henry VIII’s elder daughter in favour of an almost unknown teenage girl. Not only that, but control of the administrative levers of power
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Hidden from history: Archivists reveal the lives of famous, and not-so-famous, women
Byrd Pinkertonvox.com
the bludgeoning familiarity of the narrative of Henry and his six wives tends, now, to numb our imaginative response to the terrors of an age when the toxic combination of a king’s monstrous ego and profound religious division made politics a blood sport, on a scale previously unknown in England outside the havoc of civil war.
Helen Castor • Elizabeth I
For the most part, they are portrayed as abusers rather than users of power. They take it illegitimately, in a way that leads to chaos, to the fracture of the state, to death and destruction. They are monstrous hybrids, who are not, in the Greek sense, women at all. And the unflinching logic of their stories is that they must be disempowered and
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