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Martin Luther

The Royal martyr

Nov 30, 2017

anniversaries, genealogy, religion

Aldham Common, Archbishop Cranmer, Carmarthen, de heretico comburendo, Gloucester, Hadleigh, Hugh Latimer, James II, James V, John Hooper, Martin Luther, Mary I, Nicholas Ridley, Oxford, Patrick Hamilton, Robert Ferrar, Rowland Tayler, Scotland, St. Andrews

If you wish to visit the site of a heresy execution or a memorial to a victim in England and Wales, there are several options, most of which date from Mary I’s reign. Aldham Common in Hadleigh commemorates the town’s Rector, Rowland Tayler. Oxford marks an Archbishop, Cranmer, together with Bishops Latimer and Ridley, whilst…
Starkey on home territory

Oct 17, 2017

religion

accounting, Anne Boleyn, annulment, Archbishop Cranmer, BBC2, Bible, Cardinal Campeggio, David Starkey, Erasmus, executions, Henry VII, Henry VIII, Human Shredder, humanism, interpretation, Martin Luther, printing, Reformation, television reviews, Thomas More, Thomas Wolsey, William Tyndale

This BBC documentary was actually very good and it worked because Starkey spoke about a subject he knows inside out – the Reformation and Henry VIII, relating it to current affairs. From Luther’s theses, indulgences and translating the Bible, first into German then English, he moved onto Tyndale‘s efforts to smuggle it into England and…