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Bring Up The Bodies
May. 2nd, 2012 07:40 pmThat is the title of the new book I have just ordered, by Hilary Mantel
It is the second in a trilogy of novels about Thomas Cromwell, the architect behind Henry VIII's divorce from blameless Catharine of Aragon so he could marry the conniving Anne. I know some have sympahty for Anne, and I do feel for her (she was framed, to be sure) but then again she schemed to bed and wed another's husband.
Anyway, history has not been kind to Cromwell (see "A Man For All Seasons" for example). In the author's first book of the series, which I have just finished, "Wolf Hall" it covers the territory up to Henry marrying Anne. "Bodies" covers the brief marriage of Anne and Henry, but with the focus on Cromwell.
I'm not sure I agree with the authors take that Sir Thomas Moore was a dangerous religious fanatic, but viewing things from a different perspective is interesting, even if I don't end up sharing the same mindset as the author.
It is the second in a trilogy of novels about Thomas Cromwell, the architect behind Henry VIII's divorce from blameless Catharine of Aragon so he could marry the conniving Anne. I know some have sympahty for Anne, and I do feel for her (she was framed, to be sure) but then again she schemed to bed and wed another's husband.
Anyway, history has not been kind to Cromwell (see "A Man For All Seasons" for example). In the author's first book of the series, which I have just finished, "Wolf Hall" it covers the territory up to Henry marrying Anne. "Bodies" covers the brief marriage of Anne and Henry, but with the focus on Cromwell.
I'm not sure I agree with the authors take that Sir Thomas Moore was a dangerous religious fanatic, but viewing things from a different perspective is interesting, even if I don't end up sharing the same mindset as the author.
