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“Always, I sensed the difference between others and myself in the power of my emotions, and felt ashamed that I was less calm than Mary, and less able than George to view matters with level-headedness. It was so difficult for me. I was too easily carried away and wished to hide this, for expression of feelings always drew frowns or gasps, and was generally viewed as something base and common, as well as inappropriate. I prayed often that God might make me good.”

EmotionsAnne BoleynTudor
Book:Threads: The Reincarnation of Anne Boleyn
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“The White Falcon by Stewart Stafford Trampled pomegranate underfoot, Fervent ascent of anatine steps, To the alabaster falcon's chamber, Viperine slither as a king's retinue. Roman breakage for a concubine, Stillbirths piled on a spiral staircase, Skewered tongues spitting smears, Spurious sparks fanned to an inferno. Denounced in the toxic public mind, Cast into a wolf pit by kangaroo court, Blood money to the Gallic executioner, Her headless ghost in a centuries' limbo. © Stewart Stafford, 2024. All rights reserved.”

InjusticeInfidelityHistorical RomanceTudorsHenry ViiiRoyal RomanceAnne BoleynTudorTragic PoetryTudor England
Author:Stewart Stafford
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“Eduardo V tenía doce años y había recibido una buena educación. Presumiblemente sabía lo suficiente sobre la historia inglesa y sobre la naturaleza humana como para anticipar su destino. Los reyes depuestos no sobrevivían. [...] Para cuando el calor estival dejo de calcinar los muros encalados de la Torre de Londres, Eduardo, "que tenía tanta dignidad en toda su persona y tanto encanto en su rostro", había desaparecido junto con su hermano pequeño. [...] En noviembre de 1483, la política inglesa actuaba según el supuesto de que nunca volvería a verse a los Príncipes de la Torre con vida.”

HistoryEnglandHistoriaInglaterraAsesinatoWars Of The RosesRichard IiiTudorGuerra De Las RosasPrinces Of The Tower
Book:The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors
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“To make a tarte of strawberyes," wrote Margaret Parker in 1551, "take and strayne theym with the yolkes of four eggs, and a little whyte breade grated, then season it up with suger and swete butter and so bake it." And Jess, who had spent the past year struggling with Kant's Critiques, now luxuriated in language so concrete. Tudor cookbooks did not theorize, nor did they provide separate ingredient lists, or scientific cooking times or temperatures. Recipes were called receipts, and tallied materials and techniques together. Art and alchemy were their themes, instinct and invention. The grandest performed occult transformations: flora into fauna, where, for example, cooks crushed blanched almonds and beat them with sugar, milk, and rose water into a paste to "cast Rabbets, Pigeons, or any other little bird or beast." Or flour into gold, gilding marchpane and festive tarts. Or mutton into venison, or fish to meat, or pig to fawn, one species prepared to stand in for another.”

Old BooksPoultryOld EnglishFaunaTransformationsCookbooksJess BachTudor
Book:The Cookbook Collector
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“Il re si siede e comincia a parlare, a sproloquiare. In quegli ultimi dieci anni e più Anna lo ha preso per mano e lo ha portato nella foresta. Lì, al margine del bosco, dove la luce del giorno si frantuma e filtra tra il verde, lui ha perso il senno, l'innocenza. Anna si è fatta rincorrere tutto il giorno, finché lui tremava sfinito, eppure non riusciva a fermarsi neanche per riprendere fiato, non poteva tornare indietro, aveva perso la strada. L'ha inseguita fino al tramonto, l'ha cercata alla luce delle torce. Poi lei gli si è scagliata contro, ha spento le torce e l'ha lasciato da solo nel buio.”

Historical FictionThomas CromwellAnne BoleynTudor
Book:Bring Up the Bodies
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