1536: the year that changed Henry VIII

I. Setting the scene

The change

Young Henry

The divorce

1536 and all that

II. The crisis of masculinity

A wife's death

The king's honour

The fall of Anne Boleyn

A dearth of heirs

Masculinity and image

III. The king's religion

The Reformation in England

1536: The Church established

The role of Henry VIII in later Reformation

Henry VIII's theology

The aftermath of the Reformation

IV. Henry the tyrant

The pilgrimage of grace

The Mouldwarp Prophecy

Courtly dissent

Did Henry VIII become a tyrant?

Epilogue.