Each man was born to his degree, and a happy man was one who did not question his place in life.
Arthur managed to speak to his grandmother [Queen Eleanor of England], demanding that she evacuate the castle with all her possessions and then go peaceably wherever she wished, for he wanted to show...
A husband or wife did not have the right either to demand sex from his or her spouse or to refuse it, and there was a catalogue of forbidden sexual practices, notably homosexuality, bestiality, certai...
At school, up to the age of sixteen, I found history boring, for we were studying the Industrial Revolution, which was all about Acts, Trade Unions and the factory system, and I wanted to know about p...
I will never give him the satisfaction of knowing how much he has wounded and enraged me. In my silence lies my strength.
Some of my subjects do not know what is good for them,
Katherine of Aragon was a staunch but misguided woman of principle; Anne Boleyn an ambitious adventuress with a penchant for vengeance; Jane Seymour a strong-minded matriarch in the making; Anne of Cl...
Sycophancy
This was the culmination of all her hopes. God had seen fit to answer her prayers, and she was filled to the brim with thankfulness. She was to be Queen of England, raised by this magnificent young ma...
Shrovetide.
If only the Fates had granted him a longer stay in this
The weight of evidence ‘cannot convince those who do not wish to believe
She had already decided that, when she grew up, she was going to do whatever she pleased and not let anyone order her about.
7. CCR; Robert of Reading; Murimuth; Dugdale, Monasticon; Annales
Attainder,
Assiduous
Agnus Dei;
War was a dangerous business, and those who escaped death at the hands of the enemy often perished as a result of the dysentery and disease that could decimate armies.
Recusancy,
Who does not tremble when he considers how to deal with his wife?’ asked Henry VIII in his treatise A Defence of the Seven Sacraments; ‘for not only is he bound to love her, but so to live with her th...
