K but on the real tho...securing safety for England & adjusting to progressive religious discourse wasn't all petty & many wanted/supported.https://twitter.com/hpluckrose/status/812085987434106881 …
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Replying to @AnneBoleynQuene
Sure. Henry didn't care all that much tho. Your family did. Nice prison & education reform ideas, btw.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
definitely. But religious (& education like u mention) reform is well documented thru state papers re Thomas More (oh the irony)
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Replying to @AnneBoleynQuene
Of course but hardly progressive ones. And Henry still considered himself catholic.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
pretty progressive for the 1530s but you're not wrong about the Catholic part. That damn Henry...
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Replying to @AnneBoleynQuene
Don't know about that. The Catholic Church was largely prepared to leave people alone if they didn't frighten the horses.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @AnneBoleynQuene
With Protestant ideas came Total Depravity & self-searching & austerity & wrongthink was severely punished
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Replying to @HPluckrose
not untrue, but it also allowed mass to be heard in English which made it accessible for all people.
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We cld debate whether religious life became more or less oppressive & at the Reformation for ever.
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