Monarchy and incest in Renaissance England : literature, culture, kinship, and kingship /

In dissolving his marriage to Catherine of Aragon, Henry VIII claimed that Catherine's brief marriage to Henry's deceased brother, Arthur, had rendered the subsequent union incestuous. Henry's next marriage could be called incestuous as well, for Anne Boleyn's sister Mary had bee...

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Main Author: Boehrer, Bruce Thomas
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©1992.
Series:New cultural studies.
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Online Access:CONNECT