Bertzen, Nicole Simone (2022) Mission Impossible? Ambassador Karl Harst, Anne of Cleves, and their struggles to secure the strategic alliance between Cleves and England. Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) thesis, University of Kent. (doi:10.22024/UniKent/01.02.95545) (Access to this publication is currently restricted. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:95545)
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Abstract
Much has been written about the marriage between Anne of Cleves and Henry VIII, but scholars mostly had to rely on the sources that came from an English perspective and narrative. To enable a more balanced view on the encounter between England and Cleves and on the marriage, source material needs to be included that was created from the perspective of the side of Cleves. As only parts of the dispatches of Karl Harst, ambassador of Cleves to England 1540-1542, have been published before and furthermore between 110 to 150 years ago, this thesis aims to fill a gap. It provides transcripts of Harst's letters written in 1540 during the brief period of marriage between Anne of Cleves and Henry VIII and of diplomatic alliance between Cleves and England, as well as fresh perspectives and new insights into a topic that supposedly was exhaustingly covered.
Item Type: | Thesis (Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)) |
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Thesis advisor: | Loop, Jan |
Thesis advisor: | Fincham, Kenneth |
DOI/Identification number: | 10.22024/UniKent/01.02.95545 |
Uncontrolled keywords: | Anne of Cleves; Early Modern Diplomacy; Karl Harst; Henry VIII; Annulment; Jülich-Kleve-Berg; Microhistory; German Princely States |
Subjects: | D History General and Old World > DA Great Britain |
Divisions: | Divisions > Division of Arts and Humanities > School of History |
Depositing User: | System Moodle |
Date Deposited: | 07 Jul 2022 08:22 UTC |
Last Modified: | 26 Jul 2022 11:40 UTC |
Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/95545 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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