Queen Mary

Henry's move to reform the Church in England began with his desire to divorce Queen Catherine, who had not given him any surviving male children. Henry wanted to remarry Anne Boleyn, but he needed a dispensation from Pope Clement VII who did not want to grant the new dispensation. In 1509, King Henry VIII came to the throne following the death of his father, Henry VII, and married his brother’s widow, Catherine of Aragon. By 1524 Henry started having doubts about his marriage with Catherine. He…

The heart and stomach of a king by Carole Levin looks into the life of Queen Elizabeth I and how gossip and rumor influenced her life and her rule of England. This book effectively adds a new twist to other history books on Elizabeth by focusing on less formal and more personal aspects of her life which makes the book an interesting read even for people that are not incredibly interested in history. In chapter two of the book it starts talking about the idea of courtships over the course of…

relationship between King Henry VIII of England and his daughter, future Mary I of England clearly displayed the opposite. Mary was a political hostage to her father for the thirty-one out of forty-two years that she lived. The hostility between Henry and Mary did not just interfere with their personal relationship, but ended up drastically effecting Mary’s reign. Many believe Henry VIII was a terrible king, but when compared to Mary, his handling of international policies, uprisings, and…

Queen Elizabeth I may have professed to have had “the heart and stomach of a king,” but her true greatness lay in her mind. Elizabeth’s character was a true symbolic amalgamation of male and female: the earth mother of her people, the true daughter of Henry VIII. Elizabeth’s brilliant leadership and iconoclastic stature secured her place as one of the most legendary rulers in history. In a few short decades, Elizabeth was able to unite her country, move it out of economic downturn, and secure…

The Price of Being Queen Marriage is a dangerous game, especially if the prize involves a king and the English crown in the early 1500’s. For some unfortunate ladies the price they paid in pursuit of being the queen of England was their lives.It was a race to produce a male heir that would decied thier fates and all but one would succeed, but not without dying in the process. Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, and finally widowed was the fate of these English Queens and the…

protect its monarch, and achieve security.” (Citar a Jennifer Lauren.) When she became Queen, there was a great expectation between her subjects for the religion she was going to choose. During the last thirty years, the religion had been chosen by the monarch who ruled in that moment - Henry VIII separated the Church of England from the Roman Church, Edward VI changed the religion to Protestantism and Mary I changed the religion again to Catholicism. Anna Keaton says that these changes had…

Henry married six women during his lifetime. These marriages, moreover, his divorces go back to Henry always getting what he wants. His first marriage was to Catherine of Aragon, his brother’s widow. Catherine bore Henry three children, Mary – later known as Mary I – was the only one to survive infancy. Not only were personal decisions made because of Catherine, but some political decisions were also made. During Henry's invasion of France in 1513 she was made regent; she showed great zeal and…

Queen Elizabeth’s speech was given to the troops at Tilbury back in 1588. At the time that this speech was given, Mary Queen of Scots had been beheaded and due to this, England was about to go at war. Many of the citizens didn’t approve of Queen Elizabeth becoming queen because they saw her as an “illegitimate daughter.” Although many citizens were ecstatic with the fact that she had became queen, she needed as many people as possible to support her since they were going at war to fight for her…

feminism, they gave birth to the Women Liberation Movement. Female activists like Mary Wollstonecraft and Olympe de Gouges broke ground for modern feminists like Gloria Steinem and Dorothy Pitman Hughes. To this day women are still fighting to break the glass ceilings holding them back, such as the current wage gap. Women of the enlightenment began the over three-hundred-year long fight for equality. Great authors like Mary Shelly showed people that woman could contribute to culture and could…

The concept of gender plays a significant role in the interpretation of religious artifacts. Many historians, religious insider, and academic scholars spend their time trying to decipher the meaning of a religious text. The purpose of this essay is to justify the inversion of Peter’s gender to that of a woman, in Matthew 16: 13-20, based on the concepts that Jesus was the most accepting of sinners, women deserve a chance at redemption, and women are the archetype for motherhood and creation. In…