A History of Britain (episode6/15, part3/6)

Burning Convictions - 1500-1558. Here Simon Schama charts the upheaval caused as a country renowned for its piety, whose king styled himself Defender of the Faith, turns into one of the most aggressive proponents of the new Protestant faith.

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[LaserBeam002]

Here was Henry the VIII blaming his wives for not giving him a male heir and all the while it was HE who couldn't produce the male heirs. Of course at that time they didn't know about the X and Y chromosomes carried in males. Still it is a great shame women were blamed back then.

[kingslegion1]

the problem with this whole theory of the curse of taking his brothers wife is that they take it out of context.. that was if you took your brothers wife in adultery. for in the law of leviticus we also see that if your brother were to die childless you were to take your brothers wife as your own and bring up seed in his name.. so if henry was so stupid as to condemn on this point as do the unlearned historians it is a truly sad tale and the true reason england is as it is..

[Technorgasm]

@Strefanasha this is one of the issues with the prophet mohammad

[Strefanasha]

to have a king head of the church is as much as blasphemy as to have a pope head of it. Jesus Christ is head of the church and he need no visible deputies on earth.

for this, and for my denial of the so called real presence, i would have died at the hand of the King's Law if i had lived at that time

[Strefanasha]

@kingslegion1 well said. i am glad someone else knows the bible well enough to see that the passage in question was taken out of context

[Strefanasha]

the king may have been an assiduous reader of scripture but he was not an assiduous obeyer of same, His reading of Leviticus 20:21 is wrenched out of context. the passage is part of an apparently boring list of whom one may not fornicate with, not a forbidding of marrying one brother's widow.

Henry was an arch hypocrite and blasphemer, and Luther himself did not support him on the matter of the divorce, on plain, methinks, biblical grounds

[Iusedtobeacat93]

"Henry's ego never exactly a modest part of his personality"

Now that is an understatement !

[Steveo2857]

@antzinn79....... no, you're wrong,......... the fall of men throughout history, whether "great" or not, has not been because of women, but because of their own lusts and greed,....... which will ultimately lead to the fall of us all.

[antzinn79]

Though out history the fall of all great men his been because of women. Don't get me wrong i love the ladies but all men should expect them to be your downfall.

[haibrands96]

2) What were religious relics and how did they ‘comfort’ the poor who came to pray at the altars of catholic churches prior to the English reformation?

[italianosoccer44]

@AleksPolowa yes he married Jane Seymour who gave birth to Edward VI, but he died at the age of 15