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.
Anne Boleyn
Humanism
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Anne Boleyn was an amazing human being. She was given an education that money could not buy. She was educated to be what she became and that was a thought leader and a conduit for humanism. The Renaissance gave us Michelangelo who painted God in the form of a man. The Renaissance gave us Anne Boleyn who understood what it meant for God to be a man.
Anne understood the selfish gene in terms of the selfish nature of men and women. She understood selfish is not a dirty word because it is the way we are made. It is not immoral or a sin to be selfish, it is natural.
Anne was a Christian and so was Henry and selfish had to be balanced with religious ambition and social instinct. Anne was selfish for falling in love with a married man. Henry VIII was selfish for wanting a male heir. Neither was more selfish than when it came to a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.
Selfishness and not love was the relationship between Jesus Christ and the Tudor family of Anne, Henry and Elizabeth 1.