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Tudor England | Horrid Henrys; The late Middle Ages in colour. Economist, Sep 24, 2011.
http://www.economist.com/node/21530068
Note:
(a) Henry VII of England
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_VII_of_England
(Henry VII of House of Lancaster defeated and killed Richard III, House of York, in the 1485 Battle of Bosworth Field, the penultimate battle of the Wars of the Roses; portrait)
(b) Catherine of Aragon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_of_Aragon
(At the age of three Catherine was betrothed to Prince Arthur, heir to the English throne, and they married in 1501, but Arthur died five months later. Catherine subsequently married Arthur's younger brother, the recently-succeeded Henry VIII)
(c) doff (vt; Middle English, from don to do + of off): "to remove (an article of wear) from the body"
www.m-w.com
(d) tiltyard (n): "a yard or place for tilting contests"
(e) dissimulate (vt; Latin dis- + simulare to simulate):
"to hide under a false appearance <smiled to dissimulate her urgency — Alice Glenday>"
(f) limn (vt; Middle English limnen to illuminate (a manuscript)):
"1: to draw or paint on a surface
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3: DESCRIBE <the novel limns the frontier life of the settlers>"
(g) cupidity (n; share the same Latin root "cupere" as the English verb covet):
"inordinate desire for wealth : AVARICE, GREED"