Why the Tudors fell for courtly love
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Is It a Romantic Reading of Henry the the Eighth?
Prince henry and his younger sister mary, perhaps more than their elder siblings, arthur and margaret, were brought up. If we look at not only the lists of em of books, of manuscripts in the royal library, but the people who were hired as tutors for them, it does seem as if they did pick up ano romantic strain from their mother. There was a signature of elizabeth of york as a girl in one of the arthurian romances in the royalLibrary. Later in life, she presided over a lot of the tournaments. She was the lady of the may she was that lady the knights were supposed to be competing for from a very
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