Claire | July 16, 2009
I apologise for the “inflammatory” title but blame David Starkey as it was he who got me wondering! When I watched Starkey’s recent “Henry VIII: Mind of a Tyrant”, the episode on Anne Boleyn really got me thinking if Anne Boleyn has to take some responsibility for her downfall and execution. In it, Starkey talked […]
Category: Anne Boleyn Execution, Anne Boleyn Fall, Anne Boleyn Personality, Marriage |
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Tags: Cromwell, execution, fall, Schama, Starkey
Claire | June 10, 2009
[audio:anne_boleyn_the_witch.mp3] Over the next couple of weeks, I will be exploring three very different opinions of Anne Boleyn – the Witch, the Whore and the Martyr – and trying to understand why people have these incredibly different views of her. We’ll start today with the view that Anne Boleyn was a witch and that that […]
Category: Anne Boleyn Fall, Anne Boleyn Myths, Myths and Legends, Representations of Anne Boleyn, Tudor Times |
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Tags: heresy, Ives, miscarriage, Starkey, Warnicke, witch, witchcraft