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Retha Marvine Warnicke, born in 1939, is an American historian and former Professor of History at Arizona State University. She specializes in politics and protocol at the Tudor court, women's issues in the Early Modern Period, and Jacobean funerary rites for women.
Retha Warnicke argues that Anne Boleyn miscarried a deformed fetus in January 1536, which fueled 16th-century fears of witchcraft and sexual deviance and led to her execution. She contends Henry VIII viewed the miscarriage as an evil omen and then accused Anne of illicit sexual acts with five men.
Retha Warnicke argues that Anne Boleyn was born in the summer of 1507, not around 1501 as most historians assumed. She rejects the popular rumours of deformities, noting they only began after Anne's death and that no-one who met her ever commented on them.
Retha Warnicke is the author of seven monographs, including The Rise and Fall of Anne Boleyn in 1989, The Marrying of Anne of Cleves from Cambridge University Press in 2002, Mary, Queen of Scots from Routledge in 2006, and Wicked Women of Tudor England from Palgrave Macmillan in 2012. Her most recent book is Elizabeth of York and Her Six Daughters-in-Law, published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2017.
Retha Warnicke was the first woman hired in the history department at Arizona State University, becoming professor in 1984 after serving as lecturer, assistant professor, and associate professor. She was director of graduate studies from 1987 to 1992, chair of the history department from 1992 to 1998, and retired on the 1st of January 2018.
Retha Warnicke's theories were harshly criticised by E. W. Ives and George W. Bernard. She defended her arguments in a 1993 article, "The Fall of Anne Boleyn Revisited", calling Bernard's suggestion that Anne committed adultery a dubious assertion with no reliable documentary proof.