
Anne Boleyn
They called Anne Boleyn the Great Whore. It is a Bible thing. Great Whore is a title from the Book of Revelation, and it is "end of the world" stuff.
An apocalyptic title is overdoing it a bit. They exaggerated the threat Anne posed. Or has history grossly underestimated Anne Boleyn?
Was Anne an existential threat to the Catholic religion and what is known as Abrahamic faith?
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I must thank historians Lucy Worsley, Suzannah Lipscombe and Tracy Borman
for introducing Anne Boleyn to me. I must thank William Shakespeare for humanism. I must thank Elizabeth I for Shakespeare.
Podcasting since 2025 • 14 episodes
Anne Boleyn
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Anne Boleyn and the Big Bang
Anne Boleyn threatened the feudal system where lords owned people as property. She posed an existential threat to Lord Thomas Cromwell and 27 other lords of England. Lord Cromwell seized control of the Church of England—an institution Anne hers...
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Episode 14
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9:54

The Anne Boleyn Collective
Drawing on historical sources like Pliny, Lucian, Tacitus, and Josephus, we trace Anne's religious thinking back to early Christian humanism. When Anne said "Lord Jesus, receive my soul" at her execution, she wasn't speaking of a future resurre...
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Episode 14
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The Stolen Years of Henry VIII & Anne Boleyn
This podcast is about the battle for the soul of England. Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn transformed England from a Catholic country to a Protestant one. Their relationship spanned fourteen years. For ten years they were inseparable. Fo...
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Episode 13
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by William Shakespeare
Every great story has hidden beginnings, and Shakespeare's rise from obscurity to literary immortality is no exception. In 1592, the Lord Chamberlain's Men were at a crossroads—financially stable but creatively paralyzed by fear of Elizabethan ...
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Episode 12
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Anne Boleyn in the U.S.A.
The popular American conception of Anne as a temptress completely misses the truth revealed by her daughter Elizabeth I. When Elizabeth became Queen, she commissioned a family tree honoring her mother as "the most gracious Princess Lady Anne." ...
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Episode 11
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