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Queen Elizabeth I’s missing banqueting house

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    “So little has remained for us today of these ephemeral places. We have a few – like the one at Hampton Court, the one at Melford Hall in Suffolk”. Janet Wertman     This is a companion to my (Damien Mackey’s) article:   Henry VIII’s palaces missing (5) Henry VIII’s palaces missing   Tudor Banqueting Houses - Then AND NOW (!) - Janet Wertman Tudor Banqueting Houses – Then AND NOW (!) Published by  janetwertman  on  May 18, 2019   A banqueting house was a “ separate pavilion-like building reached through the gardens from the main residence .” They became very popular during the Tudor era – even memorialized by Henry VIII in fanciful structures at Hampton Court and  Nonsuch  Palaces. But most of the time, they were temporary – tents atop platforms (lavish tents atop massive platforms to be sure!).   We have extensive details of royal tents from reports and paintings of the Field of the C...
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Queen Elizabeth I like an Old Testament character

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    by   Damien F. Mackey       Compared to Judith and Esther, she was a new Moses and as wise as King Solomon.     Susan Doran writes in the Abstract to her 2010 chapter, pp 95–110: “ Elizabeth I: An Old Testament King” : Elizabeth I: An Old Testament King | Springer Nature Link   Representations of Elizabeth as the Old Testament heroines, Deborah, Esther, Jael, and Judith, have been widely explored, thanks to the pioneering work of Professor John King. 1  It is now well understood how these biblical figures were used both to counter attacks on the legitimacy of female rule and to provide exemplars of godly conduct to a Protestant queen. Much less fully appreciated, I think, is the extent and variety of associations made between Elizabeth and a long line of  male  prophets, judges, and kings in the Hebrew Bible: David, Gideon, Elias, Hezekiah, Joseph, Joshua, Josiah, Moses, Saul, Solomon, and more ...
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Henry VIII as Ahab, Anne Boleyn as Jezebel

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    See also Damien Mackey’s articles:   Horrible Histories: Turpitudinous Tudors   (3) Horrible Histories: Turpitudinous Tudors   Anne Boleyn ‘a Jezebel and harlot’   (3) Anne Boleyn 'a Jezebel and harlot'   John Fisher and John Baptist parallels   (3) John Fisher and John Baptist parallels   Parallel Lives -Thomas Becket and Thomas More   (3) Parallel Lives -Thomas Becket and Thomas More       31 March - King Henry VIII as King Ahab, Anne Boleyn as Jezebel - The Tudor Society   King Henry VIII as King Ahab, Anne Boleyn as Jezebel   Author:  Claire Ridgway   On this day in Tudor history, 31st March 1532, Henry VIII was left fuming after Friar William Peto likened him to King Ahab and preached against his quest for an annulment of his marriage to Catherine of Aragon. Friar Peto also made a prophecy that some believe was fulfilled after the king's d...
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Term ‘Tudor’ has become grossly distorting

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    “If ‘Tudor’ is misleading about the royal family, the common designation ‘Tudor subjects’, ‘Tudor men and women’ having ‘Tudor attitudes’, is even more so. There is no evidence that people thought of themselves as such”. Clifford S. L. Davies     Dr Cliff Davies (d. 2016), a former history tutor at Oxford’s Wadham College, wrote:   The Tudors; Name and Implications May I augment and correct the summary of my article ‘A rose by any other name’ ( Times Literary Supplement , 13 June 2008, pp. 14-15) which appeared in The Ricardian , volume 19 (2009), page 173. The summary misrepresents the main point. My argument is now repeated as part of my ‘Reputation, repute, reality’, a review article in English Historical Review volume 124 (2009) pages 1432-1447.1 Far from arguing that the name ‘Tudor’ was wrongly attached to Henry VII, I do not dispute that his surname, had he used one, would have been ‘Tudor’. (The point that it could as easily have be...
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