marsh - ooh, yes! I love it when someone else has read any of her books ... they're so good. I did indeed mean the Load of Unicorn.
I loved that story so much. And you know the actual manuscript of the Malory stories does have smudged images of Caxton's type on it, so we know that he did really have it in his workroom? How cool is that?!
upto - see, I believe the theory that if you look at what a society takes great care to legislate against, that tells you what everyone is doing all the time. If medieval society was so keen to insist you shouldn't be shagging doggy-style, woman-on-top, in the church porch (!), in the graveyard, with your neighbour, etc., then probably it's a good clue to what people were doing most often.
I suppose a nice private church porch might have been the equivalent to round behind the bike sheds.
So I suspect that while Anne had all these seemingly fancy sexual skills, probably everyone but Henry thought they were no more than vanilla.