Early Tudor Gender Power & Lit

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Anne Boleyn was the most consequential queen in English history. To marry her, Henry VIII created the Church of England and forced his subjects to swear oaths confirming his control over it and their own allegiance to Anne and her heirs. Those who refused - including Thomas More - faced imprisonment and death. Anne reigned barely a thousand days before her execution for adultery. This course is about Anne, Henry VIII, the politics of their world and the literature by and about their court - including the poetry kept and commented upon by Anne's female friends and relatives.