Inventions Invented against Me”
The Five Catherines of Aragon at the Blackfriars Trial
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10425357 |
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| Authors | Maria Teresa Micaela Prendergast (0000-0002-0101-0054, College of Wooster, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 77 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 529-572 |
| Publication date | 2024-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Renaissance Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0034-4338 • E-ISSN: 1935-0236 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/rqx.2024.106 |
| OpenAlex | W4404215000 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 20 |
Most scholars who comment on Catherine of Aragon's speech and movements at the annulment trial on 21 June 1529 have overlooked significant discrepancies between the five eyewitness accounts of this day—by an English gentleman, the English king, and the French, Venetian, and Vatican envoys. This essay, in contrast, gives particular focus to discrepancies in these accounts. These contradictions speak to a rhetorical war over Catherine's reputation, one that reflects tensions across Europe that were exacerbated by the trial. Catherine herself may be termed an agent in this rhetorical war, given that her own voice makes itself heard within each account
Early Modern Women Writers · Historical and Religious Studies of Rome · History · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity
| Highly cited | No |
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