Add to ORKGThis essay examines the presence of a fool in the retinue of Imperial Ambassador Eustace Chapuys at Katherine of Aragon’s deathbed. Did this fool primarily bring comic relief or was he, as Henry VIII’s servants suspected, an intelligencer or spy? Seeking to revisit current understandings of what court fools were expected to be able to do or facilitate, I observe that Chapuys used his fool to underline his own role as a representative of the emperor, and to signal that despite the king’s beliefs that he was now divorced, Katherine’s legal status had not changed in the eyes of Catholic Europe
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This essay examines the presence of a fool in the retinue of Imperial Ambassador Eustace Chapuys at ...
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Needing to marry someone who can legitimate his aspiration for a foreign throne, Henry aligns himsel...
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Needing to marry someone who can legitimate his aspiration for a foreign throne, Henry aligns himsel...
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(in English): The English king Henry VIII went down in history as controversial man, who wanted the ...
In the early morning hours of 7 January 1536 Catherine of Aragon, recently created dowager Princess ...
England after Henry VIII death went through cardinal changes under the Tudors. Though Henry VIII sel...
Argues that the specifically political role of the Fool in Shakespeare's King Lear may be illuminate...
PhDEMBARGOED UNTIL 01/06/2014The sixteenth-century French court has acquired a reputation for scanda...
This essay examines the presence of a fool in the retinue of Imperial Ambassador Eustace Chapuys at ...
The reports and despatches of Eustace Chapuys, Spanish Ambassador to Henry VIII’s court from 1529 to...
Needing to marry someone who can legitimate his aspiration for a foreign throne, Henry aligns himsel...
History texts and popular media alike have long portrayed Henry VIII’s fifth queen, Katherine Howard...
In this article, Zoe Screti explores the changing clothing of court fools in the Tudor period. Chall...
This essay will consider the social, cultural and political ramifications of the untimely or unexpec...
In Shakespeare, the wise fool label most commonly is applied to Touchstone of As You Like It, the Fo...
The execution of William, lord Hastings, was one of a series of dramatic events leading up to Richar...
Needing to marry someone who can legitimate his aspiration for a foreign throne, Henry aligns himsel...
Edward II is a monarch whose name is almost synonymous with scandal and failure, and the infamous ta...
(in English): The English king Henry VIII went down in history as controversial man, who wanted the ...
In the early morning hours of 7 January 1536 Catherine of Aragon, recently created dowager Princess ...
England after Henry VIII death went through cardinal changes under the Tudors. Though Henry VIII sel...
Argues that the specifically political role of the Fool in Shakespeare's King Lear may be illuminate...
PhDEMBARGOED UNTIL 01/06/2014The sixteenth-century French court has acquired a reputation for scanda...