Name: Rethinking Anne Boleyn with Martha Tatarnic | Episode 280
Uploaded: 2026-05-01T08:25:28.000Z
Duration: 3300
Description: What do you really know about Anne Boleyn? Most of us remember her as Henry VIII's ill-fated second wife — and not much more. But according to Martha Tatarnic,...

What do you really know about Anne Boleyn? Most of us remember her as Henry VIII's ill-fated second wife — and not much more. But according to Martha Tatarnic, Anglican priest and author of Anne Boleyn: Reputation, Revolution, Religion, and the Queen Who Changed History, we've been missing the bigger picture entirely.

Martha returns to the podcast to explore Anne Boleyn as a serious religious reformer whose influence on the English Reformation — and the Anglican Church — has been vastly underestimated. History painted her as a seductress rather than a scholar. Victim-blaming narratives have shaped her legacy for centuries, and Martha shares what recovering her true story means for the church today.

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Martha's website (https://marthatatarnic.ca/)

Anne Boleyn: Reputation, Revolution, Religion, and the Queen Who Changed History (https://churchpublishing.org/collections/morehouse-publishing-coming-soon/products/9781640658592-anne-boleyn)

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Rethinking Anne Boleyn with Martha Tatarnic | Episode 280

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