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Historical person
1466–1536
Erasmus studied and worked across the Low Countries, France, England, Italy, Switzerland and the German lands. His editions, translations, correspondence and satirical works promoted textual scholarship, education and moral reform while he remained critical of both ecclesiastical abuses and confessional extremism.
He is relevant to fiction about Margaret of Austria’s cultured court and the education of elite women in the Habsburg Netherlands. Fictional encounters should respect the chronology of his travels and correspondence rather than using him as a generic spokesman for every later Reformation position.
Rozsa Gaston’s Maid of Honour is set in 1513 the young Anne Boleyn leaves England for Mechelen to join the sophisticated household of Margaret of Austria.
Series
The Anne Boleyn Chronicles reconstruct Anne Boleyn’s formative continental years before her emergence at the English court. Beginning in 1513 in Margaret of Austria’s household at Mechelen, the sequence follows Anne through the courts of Louis XII, Claude of France and Francis I, where language, ceremony, patronage and…
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