Tag Archives: King Henry VIII

henry VIII: not a good year of the woman

Henry VIII, along with almost every male in the sixteenth-century, regarded women a being “weak, frail, impatient, feeble, and foolish” and “void of the spirit of council of regimen.” He was consequently pleased by his wife’s actual remarks, and announced … Continue reading

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catherine parr: avoiding the tower

There is a story about Henry and his last queen, Catherine Parr, told by the martyrologist John Foxe, which is so extraordinary that it hs often been dismissed as malicious legend, if only because it presents the King as ether … Continue reading

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henry VIII: spare the rod

Ever since Henry VIII’s death, at the age of fifty-seven, people have asked how a once splendid monarch could come to such a pass. Some historians have suggested that during the last years of the reign he was slowly sinking … Continue reading

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a dying monarch

Death of Henry VIII… Age had dug deep trenches upon a face once as pink and delicate as a young bride’s; the soft beard of red and gold had given way to coarse white; the sturdy muscular belly was now … Continue reading

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every picture tells a golden story

It can be said that the backbone of the Royal collection began with Henry VIII, though the anti-papal sentiments tended to associate art patronage with the Vatican and therefore the early works of the royals tended to anti-pope allegories mixed … Continue reading

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in and around the seraglio

….Turkey is putting up good economic numbers, and flourishing without the militarily imposed corruption that the Kemalist guarantors of secularism wallowed in as the price of preserving modern Turkey. Tiresome though Turkey’s anti-Israel posturing and pandering to the Arabs is, … Continue reading

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HEALING WATERS & BUBBLING PASSIONS

There is,and always has been, an especial magic attached to the idea of healing springs. In antiquity they were believed to be the abode of nymphs, or sometimes of a god; in the Middle Ages,a saint was often considered to … Continue reading

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