Henry VIII and the Court: Art, Politics and Performance

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Plates
List of Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I: Writing about Henry VIII
1 Reflecting on the King’s Reformation
Part II: Material Culture
2 Rich Pickings: Henry VIII’s Use of Confiscation and its Significance for the Development of the Royal Collection
3 ‘As presence did present them’: Personal Gift-giving at the Field of Cloth of Gold
4 Cultures of the Body, Medical Regimen, and Physic at the Tudor Court
Part III: Images
5 Architectural Culture and Royal Image at the Henrician Court
6 Wishful Thinking: Reading the Portraits of Henry VIII’s Queens
7 Henry VIII and Holbein: Patterns and Conventions in Early Modern Writing about Artists
Part IV: Court Culture
8 Inscribed in Memory: The Prison Poems of Sir Thomas Wyatt
9 Receiving the King: Henry VIII at Cambridge
10 Performing Henry at the Court of Rome
Part V: Reactions
11 Hampton Court, Henry VIII and Cardinal Pole
12 Henry VIII and the Crusade against England
13 One Survived: The Account of Katherine Parr in Foxe’s “Book of Martyrs”
Part VI: Performance
14 Gender and Status in John Heywood’s The Play of the Weather
15 Dramatic Genre and the Court of Henry VIII
16 The Fall of Anne Boleyn: A Crisis in Gender Relations?
Part VII: Afterword
17 Henry VIII: The View from 2009
Index