🎧 The Tudors in Love
🎧 Not Just the Tudors • 39m
The dramas of courtly love have captivated readers and dreamers for centuries. Yet they’re often dismissed as something that existed only in legends of King Arthur and chivalric fantasy.
But in this edition of Not Just the Tudors, Sarah Gristwood tells Professor Suzannah Lipscomb how the Tudors actually re-enacted the roles of the devoted lovers and capricious mistresses first laid out in the romances of medieval literature - romantic obsessions that shaped the history of Britain.
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