Why the Tudors fell for courtly love
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Courtly Love, a Symbol of Chivalry, of This World
One of the quest ons has always been, why henry chose to have her beheaded by the by the sword, not the axe. After all, he wouldn't make the same decision for catherine howard or his and anne's daughter, elizabeth. Am i it is possible just that he retained lingering affection for her, he wanted her death to be as swift, as painless as possible? I think there is also very possibly this other element, that the sword, think of excalibre, was very strongly a symbol of chivalry, of the arthurian stories, of this world. And that, you know, in a sense, even in the
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