Henry VIII (r. 1509–47) ruled an island kingdom about the size of Pennsylvania inhabited by fewer than 3 million people nearly 500 years ago, and yet he remains instantly recognizable to this day, his barrel-chested and bejeweled figure immortalized by the brush of Hans Holbein the Younger. Taught by: Dale Hoak, The College of William and Mary, Ph.D., Course Lecture Titles 1. Henry VIII—Kingship and Revolution 2. The Wars of the Roses and Henry VII 3. Majesty and Regality—The Cult of Monarchy 4. Chivalry and War—The Accession of Henry VIII 5. King and Cardinal—England Under Wolsey 6. Magnificence, War, and Diplomacy, 1519-29 7. Anne Boleyn and the King's "Great Matter" 8. King, Church, and Clergy 9. Church and People—Heresy and Popular Religion 10. Rex Est Imperator—The Break With Rome 11. Parliament, Law, and the Nation 12. The Trial and Execution of Thomas More 13. Humanism and Piety 14. Wealth, Class, and Status 15. More's Utopia 16. The Dissolution of the Monasteries 17. Rebellion—The Pilgrimage of Grace 18. A Renaissance Court 19. Queen Anne Boleyn 20. Two Queens—Jane Seymour and Anne of Cleves 21. Politics, Sex, and Religion—Catherine Howard 22. Queen Katherine Parr 23. Endgame—Politics and War, 1542-47 24. Retrospect—Henry VIII: The King and His Age