Posted on 01/28/2018 9:43:51 AM PST by beaversmom
Admitting that YOU are an uneducated, uncultured boob, are you? ;^)
It has been rumored that Thomas More tortured heretics on his property - sometimes tying them to trees. It has not been proven, though. Henry allowed Anne to have an expert executioner who appeared to be one of many other people on the platform so she wouldn’t be unduly alarmed by the sight of a masked man. As shown in Wolf Hall, he distracted her as well. That scene was beautifully done and Claire Foy was excellent as always.
And outside of school, the general public, here, in America, used to know all about Brit history and Henry VII, from books and movies; it was part of general knowledge, no matter what religion one practiced.
And outside of school, the general public, here, in America, used to know all about Brit history and Henry VII, from books and movies; it was part of general knowledge, no matter what religion one practiced.
Interesting choice of words in context. I apparently have some ancestors who were literally thus, up in Co. Wicklow. So, guilty as charged, lol.
Yes, it was and they also used to have adds in subway cars, as well. :-)
No, I just play one to get you cranked up for amusement.
Wolf Hall is interesting precisely because it from a Protestant point of view. It is a bit of a fun house mirror to A Man for All Seasons. The usually hated Cardinal Wolsey is played by a very sympathetic Jonathan Pryce. The usually pious man of deep integrity, Thomas More, is suddenly a bitchy Anton Lesser. Very, very well done and you should finish up the series before the second season is released!
Anglican church services in some parts of the world ( the UK, Bermuda, and America ), as far late as the 1960s, were more “HIGH CHURCH”, than Catholic services, here were. They were probably closer to what both Catholic and Henry’s church services were like, when he was alive.
I am an observant American Roman Catholic, converted to Catholicism for 25 years. In all this time, I have never read/heard any Catholics in my parish or officially through my church (priests’ writings and homilies etc.) say one bad word about Henry the 8th. Not one word.
I stay away from the religious threads here at FR, they usually become very ugly. I also don’t like it when a well-meaning religious Freeper posts a 35 screen rant trying to score points on his/her interpretations of the Bible.
Before I was Roman Catholic I was non-denominational “born again” Christian. Then, it was routine for whoever the pastor was to regularly denounce Catholics and Mormons in particular. These pastors were VERY concerned about pronouncing who was and wasn’t going to go to hell (and of course, they assumed they weren’t LOL).
I’m acquainted, although they’re known as Episcopal here.
I thought the BBC’s Wolf Hall was very well done and I thought Claire Foy was a very good Anne Boleyn.
I didn’t say a word about anyone but lay Catholics who comment on FR threads pertaining specifically to Henry VIII or to England/UK in general. They’re practically uniformly negative. They’re also uniformly mistaken in the belief that he was Protestant.
It was obviously a meticulous production with high production values and very fine actors.
I have to disagree with you on that. If that was their intent, they failed miserably as it to me looked and felt more like an interpretation of history as seen through a director who makes soft porno movies or MTV videos and has not read anything of the historical period.
FWIW, I watched the movie Marie Antoinette written and directed by Sofia Coppola and starring Kirsten Dunst. And as bad as it was in some parts, with its use of modern music in some sequences and use of some, if not many story telling liberties, it was still more faithful to history than The Tudors.
Just as the the word ghetto is Italian and the name given to the area where Italian Jews were forced to live, during an even earlier time period.
I'm not "cranked up" at all; just glad to see that you're finally admitting, in public, just what and who you are.
Can you tell us exactly what good Henry VIII did? I’m sure we’re all willing to listen. I mean outside of (maybe) writing Greensleeves and having a dancer’s leg.
This is where I always thought the Pale was, lol. Recently, I heard some Brit saying it was in Soho or something. I’m barely joking!
I plan to watch the entire series as soon as I catch up with all the GOT episodes I’ve missed. Jonathan Pryce alone makes nearly everything worth watching. : )
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