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Witchcraft and witchhunts are something that has affected women in the past and even does so today. From my point of view, the witchhunts during King James I and VI’s reign were one of many types of persecutions women have had to suffer. Men have certainly been falsely accused of witchcraft but the majority of the victims were women.

I find this topic very interesting. It is above my modern understanding how the witchunts could have taken place in such a brutal way. Therefore, I enjoy reading countless books, both bios and novels, on the matter trying to understand. If you think you would enjoy learning more about the Tudor’s view towards witchcraft and the witchhunts, here below are a few books I recommend reading:

• Tracy Borman’s Frances Gorges Historical Trilogy:
  • The King’s Witch
  • The Devil’s Slave
  • The Fallen Angel
• The Poison Bed, by E.C. Fremantle
• Witchcraft, by Suzannah Lipscomb
• The Lives of Tudor Women, by Elizabeth Norton
• Witches: James I and the English Witch Hunts, by Tracy Borman

Happy reading!

// Royal Redhead

Geoffrey Chaucer’s Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale gives readers a look into the misogyny of medieval times and explores the role of women within the theme of sexuality. The ideas the Wife of Bath has about virginity, marriage, sex and power are ahead of their time and encourage equal power between men and women.

The lovely Natalie Grueniger, host of the “Talking Tudors”, gave me the honor of posting the following article I wrote on her website.
This article was originally an essay I wrote for a class on the Tudors in cultutre and contemporary literature which I took in university. It addresses the feminism and controversy surrounding Philippa Gregory’s best-selling novel, “The Other Boleyn Girl”.