How was Henry VIII represented and why?

Narrative history of Henry VIII (wives, heirs, ministers and cardinals)

Is monarchy performance?

Did he empower ministers so they would enhance his kingship?

Life in England in the late 15th/early 16th century: lifestyle, life in the villages, diet and illness, the Great Chain of Being and how society was organised. 

How did the village physically represent how society was organised?

Contextualização histórica e cultural da disciplina e o que se espera do estudante.

Discurso de John of Gaunt da peça de Shakespeare Richard II (1595) como exemplo de texto cultural representativo do pensamento e contexto inglês neste período - representação, nostalgia, ansiedade, glória e declínio.