Papers by Megan Hickerson
History, Fiction, and The Tudors, 2016
The Journal of British Studies, 2007
The Sixteenth Century Journal, 2004
... But, even then, the idea of Foxe presenting models of disobedience to authority is difficult ... more ... But, even then, the idea of Foxe presenting models of disobedience to authority is difficult to reconcile with what we know of his relationship with such authority figures as (among others) William Cecil and Matthew Parker, as well as with his 1571 efforts to ... Dr Anna Bayman. ...
The English Historical Review, 2007
... But, even then, the idea of Foxe presenting models of disobedience to authority is difficult ... more ... But, even then, the idea of Foxe presenting models of disobedience to authority is difficult to reconcile with what we know of his relationship with such authority figures as (among others) William Cecil and Matthew Parker, as well as with his 1571 efforts to ... Dr Anna Bayman. ...
Book Reviews by Megan Hickerson
The Sixteenth Century Journal, 2008
REVIEWSp arh_141 238..274 Parliament and Literature in Late Medieval England. By Matthew Giancarl... more REVIEWSp arh_141 238..274 Parliament and Literature in Late Medieval England. By Matthew Giancarlo. (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2007. xiv, 289 pp. £50.00. ISBN 9780521875394.
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 2015
The American Historical Review, Oct 1, 2014
Book review for Canadian Journal of History
Book Chapters by Megan Hickerson
Henry VIII and History, 2012
Five hundred years after inheriting his throne, Henry VIII, the 'tyrant' who famously beheaded tw... more Five hundred years after inheriting his throne, Henry VIII, the 'tyrant' who famously beheaded two of his wives, remains the most likely of all English kings to appear in various forms of Anglophone popular culture. In recent decades he has been a figure of ever-increasing popular fascination, featured in film, television series and recent historical fiction, including a number of recently reissued novels, such as those by Jean Plaidy and Norah Lofts, originally published during the mid-twentieth century. 1 Modern novelists taking Henry as their subject usually view him through the prism of his marriages, especially his first two, to Katherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn. While they tend to agree that he was a tyrant by 1536, the year Katherine died a lonely death and Anne was beheaded, they differ on how he became one. Within that disagreement lies competing portrayals of Henry's personality and its development that hinge, quite provocatively, on conflicting portrayals of his first two wives (respectively) as either virtuous or sexually compromised, honest or deceitful, or passive victims of a Machiavel or themselves Machiavellian. The most prolific modern author of historical fiction about Henry's reign, Jean Plaidy (1906-93), published seven novels between 1949 and 1993 focused on his relationships with five of his six wives. 2 Her novels, recently reissued in the USA as the Three Rivers Press's Wives of Henry VIII series, have proved to be enduringly popular with modern readers on both sides of the Atlantic: within two months of their publication as the first two novels in the Wives series in April 2003, The Lady in the Tower and The Rose without a Thorn (about, respectively, Henry's second wife, Anne Boleyn, and his fifth, Katherine Howard, both beheaded), each sold over 30,000 copies in the USA, prompting the purchase of ninety of Plaidy's 1 Plaidy's work is discussed in this chapter. Novels about Henry by Margaret Campbell Barnes (My Lady of Cleves (1946), Brief Gaudy Hour (1949) and King's Fool (1959)) and Norah Lofts (Concubine (1963) and The King's Pleasure (1968)) have also seen reissue in the last decade. 2 Plaidy (1906-93), whose real name was Eleanor Hibbert, published over 200 novels, 90 under the name Jean Plaidy, the pseudonym she used for her historical fiction (her novels have sold over 100 million copies).
Making Women Martyrs in Tudor England, 2005
Making Women Martyrs in Tudor England, 2005
Making Women Martyrs in Tudor England, 2005
Making Women Martyrs in Tudor England, 2005
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