Ana Sáez-Hidalgo and Berta Cano-Echevarría, eds., Exile, Diplomacy and Texts: Exchanges between Iberia and the British Isles, 1500–1767, Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2020, pp. xi + 232, €105.00, ISBN: 978-90-04-27365-8.

opposition to the royal policies that had eclipsed her mother, and that had severed England from the papacy and the Roman Catholic Church. In 1536, the existence of the religious houses now became threatened, and the north rose in protest. Why had Catherine not endorsed even greater resistance when she might have done so? That she did not would still reward further examination. At her own suggestion, after Catherine’s death, some of her sumptuous silk damask dresses, woven with patterns of pomegranates, were remade into vestments. Earenfight remarks that a chasuble and a cope that perhaps can be associated with her, have recently come to light. Thomas Cromwell, a target of the 1536 uprisings for his role as one of the architects of royal religious policies, was scandalized, because he believed England already had enough vestments. Earenfight’s book shows that the queen’s intelligence and her wide political experience meant that of all Henry’s wives, Catherine of Aragon was the only one he truly needed to fear.