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| ISBN-13: | 9781399011044 |
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| Publisher: | Pen and Sword |
| Publication date: | 04/05/2022 |
| Pages: | 200 |
| Sales rank: | 663,619 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.30(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.00(d) |
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgements vii
Foreword Linda Porter viii
Chapter 1 The Routing of Richard III 1
Chapter 2 Catherine of Aragon and the Head of King James IV 4
Chapter 3 The Fall of Cardinal Wolsey 8
Chapter 4 Bishop Fisher's Bad Broth 11
Chapter 5 The Sweating Sickness 15
Chapter 6 Pride Comes Before a Fall: Thomas More 18
Chapter 7 The Miscarriages of Anne Boleyn 22
Chapter 8 Cutting up the Carthusian Monks: The Terrible Death of a Tudor Traitor 25
Chapter 9 The Blackened Heart of Catherine of Aragon: Cancer in Tudor Times 28
Chapter 10 A Shapeless Mass of Flesh: Anne Boleyn's Lost Prince 30
Chapter 11 'She Has Had to Do With Over a Hundred Men!' Anne Boleyn and the Tudor Take on Female Promiscuity 34
Chapter 12 The Racking of Mark Smeaton 37
Chapter 13 Anne Boleyn and the Swordsman of Calais 42
Chapter 14 Putting Out the Pilgrimage of Grace 46
Chapter 15 The Death of Jane Seymour: Childbirth in Tudor Times 48
Chapter 16 Hacking the Head of Margaret Pole: Botched Executions 53
Chapter 17 The Licentious Life of Catherine Howard: Teenage Tudor Sexuality 56
Chapter 18 The Madness of Lady Rochford: A Tudor Take on Mental Illness 60
Chapter 19 Henry VIII's Horrible Leg 64
Chapter 20 When Catherine Parr Lost Her Head: Toxic Politics at the Tudor Court 66
Chapter 21 Admiring the Admiral: Elizabeth Tudor and Thomas Seymour's Immoral Liaison 70
Chapter 22 The Lamentable Lady Jane Grey 74
Chapter 23 Burn, Baby, Burn! The Monstrous Reign of 'Bloody' Mary Tudor 80
Chapter 24 The Curious Case of the Phantom Foetus: 'Bloody' Mary Tudor's Gynaecological Traumas 84
Chapter 25 The Wyatt Rebellion 86
Chapter 26 What Really Happened to Amy Robsart 90
Chapter 27 Splinters and Sorcerers 93
Chapter 28 The Rough Wooings of Mary Queen of Scots 101
Chapter 29 The Curious, Creepy Life of Catherine de Medici 103
Chapter 30 Francis II and His Frightful Ear: Abscesses in Tudor Times 107
Chapter 31 Mean Queen Liz: A Beginner's Guide to Bear-Baiting 110
Chapter 32 Stalking, Sixteenth Century Style: Mary Queen of Scots and the Case of Pierre Chastelard 116
Chapter 33 The Degenerate Lord Darnley: Alcoholism in Tudor Times 119
Chapter 34 The Diabolical Death of David Rizzio: Mob Violence in Tudor Times 122
Chapter 35 Smallpox: The Scarring of the Queen's Complexion 125
Chapter 36 The Calamity at Kirk O'Field: Political Assassinations 128
Chapter 37 The Kidnap of Mary Queen of Scots: Rape, Sexual Violence and Coercion in Tudor Times 132
Chapter 38 The Calamity on Carberry Hill 136
Chapter 39 Lochleven: Political Imprisonment 140
Chapter 40 It's Grim Up North: The 1569 Northern Rebellion 147
Chapter 41 The Ridolfi Plot: Tudor Intrigues 152
Chapter 42 The Babington Plot: Tudor Honeytraps 155
Chapter 43 The Botched Beheading of Mary Queen of Scots 164
Chapter 44 The Armada Attacks 172
Chapter 45 The Only Way is Essex: Elizabeth I's Tempestuous Toyboy 176
Bibliography 180
Index 183