Books, books and more books…

Books I have researched for the sequel of Falling Pomegranate Seeds: The Duty of Daughters.

A rather eclectic collection of books… 

 

Catalina’s world…

by Peggy K. Liss

(Excellent – I have the first
edition…)

 Isabel
of Spain: The Catholic Queen
by Warren H. Carroll

I really enjoyed this – but I do believe  Carroll was
very in love with his subject??

 Erasmus
and the Age of Reformation Dover Publications;

April 1, 2001

Erasmus intrigued me…

 

Isabel
La Catolica, Queen of Castile: Critical Essays, David A. Boruchoff
(Editor) Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Published: 2002

Read my Review…

 
 David M. Gitlitz and Linda Kay Davidson, The
Pilgrimage Road to Santiago : The Complete Cultural Handbook St.
Martin’s Griffin; 1st ed edition (July 2000)

On the way to the port of
Corunna, Catalina went to
Santiago as a pilgrim, taking advantage of the indulgence of that year. This
book has really made me want to experience * the road* too – but if that
doesn’t happen, it was especially helpful in descriptions of landscape,
fauna and flora, etc…

 But it still hasn’t answered the
questions about whether an unwed princess would dress the part of a pilgrim
and go through all the various rituals before going to Saint James. Still
hunting for the answer…

 
by William Melczer

 

Garrett Mattingly,


Catherine of Aragon, 1942

The classic biography of Catherine of
Aragon…

Catherine, the Queen
by

Mary M. Luke

Recommended by fellow Tudor author

C.W. Gortner, this was a great read!

 

Paul Je,


Catherine of Aragon and Her Friends, Fordham
University Press; (June 1966)

Margaret Pole, 1473-1541
by

Hazel Pierce

The tragic, tragic story of the  fall of
the house of Pole.

E.W. Ives; Anne
Boleyn; Basil Blackwell; U.K.; 1986.

Read my review of the revised edition!

Ruth M. Anderson,

Hispanic Costume 1480-1530

An
absolute gem of a book!!! 

 
Woman as Healer

Roy Strong,  Feast:
History of Grand Eating.

 

Peter Ackroyd, London: The
Biography, Chatto & Windus; G.B., 2000.

 

Alison Plowden, The
House of Tudor, Sutton Publishing, G.B, 2003

Read my review…

 

Evelyn Read,


Catherine, Duchess of Suffolk: A portrait,
Alfred A. Knoff, inc, 1962.

 She’s the
daughter of Maria de Salinas – Catalina died in Maria’s arms.

 

 Michael K. Jones and
Malcolm G.Underwood, The King’s Mother, Lady Margaret Beaufort, Countess of
Richmond and Derby, Cambridge University Press, 1992.

Another biography leaving me intrigued
about its subject.  

 Maria Dowling, Fisher of
Men, A life of John Fisher, 1469-1535, St Martin Press, 1999.

 

 

This bio offers up a true saint.

 Antonia
Fraser, The six wives of Henry VIII, Arrow Books, 1998 –

 

It was this book which made me decide
to get  Hispanic Costume 1480-1530. I wanted to know
the kind of veil Fraser claimed highborn
Castilian girls wore. Anderson’s book has me conclude it really was a
mantle, rather than veil, as the veil, framing the face, didn’t cover a
woman’s face completely…

 

Benvenuto Cellini, The Autobiography of
Benvenuto Cellini, translated and with an introduction by George Bull,
Penguin Books, 1956.

 

 

Cellini was at “The field of cloth of
Gold.”

 

 Two Early Tudor Lives (George
Cavendish; The life and Times of Cardinal Wolsey and Roper’s More)  

 

 

Tudor voices speak…

 

Helen E. Maurer, Margaret of Anjou,
The Boyden Press, UK, 2003

 This book tackles what it means to be a
medieval queen…

 

 

 

Extremely important book for my subject…

and by the same author…

 Edward
Stafford, Third Duke of Buckingham…

 

 

 

Read my review….

 

 

 

 

 

I also express my sincere thanks to a
very kind historian who has loaned me his thesis on Chapuys, hoping he
hasn’t minded it rather lengthy stay on my bookshelf.

 

 

Dear Heart…

 

ANNE BOLEYN

 

Antonia
Fraser; The six wives of Henry VIII; Arrow Books, 1998.

Retha M.
Warnicke; The Rise and Fall of Anne Boleyn; Cambridge
University Press; Cambridge; 1989.

E.W. Ives;
Anne Boleyn; Basil Blackwell; U.K.; 1986.

Hester
Chapman; The Challenge of Anne Boleyn; U.S.A, 1974

Marie Louise
Bruce; Anne Boleyn; Collins, London, 1972.

Norah Loft;
Anne Boleyn; 1979, G.B.

J. Ridley;
The life and times of Mary Tudor; G. Weiden Field and Nicholson.

J.J.
Scarisbrick; Henry the Eighth; University Press, Berkley & Los
Angeles, 1968.

Francis
Hackett; Henry the Eighth; The Reprint society, this Edition 1946.

Robert Lacey;
The life and times of Henry VIII; General Editor: Antonia Fraser;
George Weidenfeld and Niclolson and Book Club, London; 1972

Neville
Williams; Elizabeth I; Cardinal, London, 1975.

Jasper Ridley;
Statesman and Saint; The Viking Press, N.Y. 1982.

Alison Weir,
Henry VIII and his court, Random House, 2001.

 SIR THOMAS WYATT

 

Kenneth Muir;
Life and letters of Sir Thomas Wyatt; Liverpool University Press,
Liverpool, 1963.

Patricia
Thompson; Wyatt, the critical heritage; Routledge and K. Paul,
Publishers, London, 1974.

Stephen
Merriam Foley; Sir Thomas Wyatt; Twayne Publishers, Boston,
1990.

Collected
Poems of Thomas Wyatt; edited by Kenneth Muir,
Routledge & Kegan Paul, London and Henley, 1949.

Patricia
Thompson; Sir Thomas Wyatt and his background; Routledge and
Kegan Paul, London, 1964.

General
editor: Christopher Ricks; Sir Thomas Wyatt, the complete Poems;
Penguin books; 1978.

Lisle
Letters; edited by Muriel St. Clare Byrne,
selected and arranged by Bridget Boland, The Folio Press, London, 1983.

 

 TUDOR ENGLAND

Roger Hart;
English life in Tudor times; Wayland Publishers; London; 1972.

 

 

ROME
(1523 to 1528)

 

Benvenuto
Cellini; The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini; translated and with
an introduction by George Bull, Penguin books, 1956.

Hugh Ross
Williamson; Catherine de’ Medici; The Viking Press, N.Y.;
1973.

Christopher
Hollis; The Papacy; Weidenfeld and Niclolson, London, 1964.

Andre Chastel;
The Sack of Rome, 1527; Translated from the French by Beth
Archer; The A.W. Mellon Lectures in fine Arts, 1983, U.K.

Christopher Hibbert;
Rome; the biography of a city;
Penguin books, 1985.

 

FRANCE

Desmond
Seward; Prince of the Renaissance; Constable and Company; London;
1973.

W.D. Rouse, translator;
Great Dialogues of Plato;
The New American Library; New York; 1956