This is the Tudor segment of the Tudors-and-Plantagenets pair of posts that you may expect from this blog. The second episode of the Reading the End Bookcast, which appeared last Wednesday, does also mention the Plantagenets, although quite a bit farther back in time (Henry II). (PS I love the Plantagenets.) So, the Tudors! Susan Bordo has written this book (Amazon, B&N, Book Depository) that is right in my wheelhouse, a biography slash cultural history of Anne Boleyn as a person and as a semi-mythic figure. In the first half of the book, she explores what is known about Anne’s…
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