Henry VIII with Prof. Suzannah Lipscomb

1.0 Introduction to the course

1.1 Welcome to Henry VIII: The Making of a Tyrant?

1.1a What do you know about the main players in Henry VIII's court?

1.2 Henry VIII, Katherine and Wolsey: politics and the search for glory

1.2a Katherine's influence on Henry

1.2b Katherine's letter of 16 September 1513

1.3 War, Wolsey and the Field of Cloth of Gold

1.3a Wolsey's rise

1.3b George Cavendish on Wolsey

1.4 Wolsey's pomp

1.5 The politics of persuasion

1.5a Foxe or lion?

1.6 Module 1 Q & A (recorded session)

Module 1: Optional further reading

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2.0 Divorce and supremacy

2.1 Katherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn

2.2 The love letters

2.2a Henry VIII's letters to Anne Boleyn

2.2b Transcriptions of Henry VIII's letters to Anne Boleyn

2.2c If you want to hear more about the love letters...

2.2d Anne's voice

2:3 Seeking an annulment

2.3a Katherine at Blackfriars, 1529

2.3b George Cavendish, Katherine's speech

2.4 Wolsey's fall

2.5 Supremacy and the break with Rome

2.6 Bonus Videos: Channel 5's Henry and Anne: The Lovers Who Changed History (externally hosted)

2.7 Divorce and supremacy quiz: test what you've learnt!

2.8 Module 2 Q & A (live Zoom session)

Module 2: Optional further reading

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3.0 Faction and counsel

3.1 The fall

3.2 The evidence

3.2a The dossier

3.2b Innocent or guilty?

3.3 The historiography

3.3a Investigation

3.4 Henry's reaction

3.4a Reflection

3.5 Bonus Video – BBC 2's The Last Days of Anne Boleyn (externally hosted, not subtitled)

3.6 Module 3 Q & A

Module 3: Optional further reading

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4.0 The Henrician Reformation

4.1 The six martyrs

4.1a Reformation theology – what do you know?

4.2 England and Europe

4.2a The Ten Articles – question

4.2b The Ten Articles – text

4.3 Reform

4.3a The Six Articles

4.4 Reaction

4.5 Henry's faith

4.5a Stoning the Pope

4.6 Module 4 Q & A

Module 4: Optional further reading

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5.0 Scars on the landscape

5.1 The scale of English monasteries before the dissolution

5.1a The monasteries

5.1b The purpose of the dissolution – reading primary source evidence

5.1c Articles of inquiry for the dissolution

5.2 The Valor Ecclesiasticus and the Pilgrimage of Grace

5.2a The Pontefract Articles – what do they tell us the rebellion was about?

5.3 The myth of the just king

5.4 The eradication of monasticism

5.5 Module 5 Q & A

Module 5: Optional further reading

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6.0 Magnificence

6.1 Dress and pageants

6.1 Chroniclers on pageants

6.2 Portraiture I

6.3 Portraiture II

6.3a Representations

6.4 Other images of Henry

6.4a Propaganda

6.5 Architecture

Bonus Video – Nonsuch Palace – (c) University of Roehampton, prepared for our FutureLearn course on The Tudors 2019

6.6 Module 6 Q&A (recorded session)

Module 6: Optional further reading

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