Tudor historians were adept at rewriting history.

Virgil had no difficulty in believing that God has visited the sins of Henry IV upon his descendant, Henry VI, yet he did not explain how this was to be reconciled with the triumphant career of Henry...

Tudor historians were fond of reminding their readers of the horrors of the Wars of the Roses, recounting how the realm had been plunged into the vicious civil war over a disputed crown that lasted...

Islamic lands did not emigrate willingly to Israel. In order to force them to leave, Giladi writes, Jews killed Jews. He goes on to say that in an effort to buy time to confiscate ever more Arab...

but he frequently drank too much, and when he was inebriated would indiscriminately "let out his secret thoughts and quarrel with bystanders for feeble causes."47

Henry VIII owned more than eight hundred carpets

between Scylla and Charybdis

Former Undersecretary of State Dean Acheson also opposed Zionism. Acheson's biographer writes that Acheson worried that the West would pay a high price for Israel. Another author, John Mulhall,...

One French ambassador, having witnessed the royal temper, confided, 'When I see her enraged against any person whatever, I wish myself in Calcutta, fearing her anger like death

a royal bride could come to enjoy considerable power and influence, as did both Katherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn. Yet such status and power emanated solely from her husband. She enjoyed no freedoms...

Who does not tremble when he considers how to deal with his wife?' asked Henry VIII in his treatise A Defence of the Seven Sacraments; 'for not only is he bound to love her, but so to live with her...

Men, however, were encouraged to sow their wild oats, but a woman who did so became a social outcast and ruined her chances of making a good marriage.

Only during courtship might a woman briefly gain the upper hand, as both Anne Boleyn and Jane Seymour did, but woe betide her if she did not quickly learn to conform once the wedding-ring was on her...

An organization which has the aims we have must be anonymous, must work silently,{52} and through education and infection rather than through force and noise.

Giladi states that Jews from

7. CCR; Robert of Reading; Murimuth; Dugdale, Monasticon; Annales

war was a dangerous business, and those who escaped death at the hands of the enemy often perished as a result of the dysentery and disease that could decimate armies.

face that journey again in the winter. Arthur did not answer, and when she turned to look at him, she saw that