The English Reformation: How Henry VIII Broke with Rome and Created a Church
Religious Historian
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Anglicanism was not born from a divorce alone. Before Henry VIII broke with Rome in 1534, England had lived a century and a half of underground religious dissent, from John Wycliffe and the Lollards to William Tyndale and the first printed Bible in English. What began as a matrimonial crisis became the greatest religious, political and economic revolution in English history. This documentary tells the full story, from the Tudor Reformation to the Elizabethan Settlement.
📖 In this documentary:
✅ Wycliffe, the Lollards, and the long roots of English dissent
✅ William Tyndale and the Bible that changed the English language
✅ The King's Great Matter: Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, and the break of 1534
✅ The Act of Supremacy and the executions of Thomas More and John Fisher
✅ The dissolution of the monasteries and the Pilgrimage of Grace
✅ Thomas Cranmer and the Book of Common Prayer
✅ Mary I, the Marian exiles, and the fires of Smithfield
✅ Elizabeth I and the Settlement of 1559: the via media that defined Anglicanism
📜 A NOTE ON APPROACH
The English Reformation was at once a genuine religious movement, a political revolution, and an act of state power; historians still debate the balance (Duffy against Dickens, Shagan and Marshall in between). This documentary presents the faith, the politics and the violence on all sides, Catholic and Protestant, as the sources record them.
📚 SOURCES:
Diarmaid MacCulloch, Thomas Cranmer: A Life (Yale, 1996)
Eamon Duffy, The Stripping of the Altars (Yale, 1992)
Peter Marshall, Heretics and Believers: A History of the English Reformation (Yale, 2017)
Ethan Shagan, Popular Politics and the English Reformation (Cambridge, 2003)
J. J. Scarisbrick, Henry VIII (Yale, 1968)
David Daniell, William Tyndale: A Biography (Yale, 1994)
Acts of the Realm: Act of Supremacy (1534); Book of Common Prayer (1549); Thirty-nine Articles
Lambeth Palace Library, Thomas Cranmer Research Guide; National Archives UK
📖 ABOUT THIS CHANNEL
Every episode is grounded in primary sources and academic scholarship. I research and write each one myself; AI assists with narration and visuals.
#englishreformation #henryviii #churchofengland #anglicanism #churchhistory
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Outpf a rebellion, in the name of reformation, sunk in Sodom and Divorce, unto its many thousands of sects rather cults, underscored in Gnosticism to John's " They were with us, went out of us, cause they were not of us " incidentally the source of the prophesied Apostasy theologically in the leavens of the Faith by Faith Only,, contrary to the Revelation of " Render unto God what is to God " FAITH, without which it is not possible to please God but surely not a theologically Leavened/Corrupted Faith as in Protestantism's Faith Only, when the Bible plainly says it is not Faith Only, & the philosophies that arise out of the leavens becomes to another Christ another Gospel,
Protestantism, out of which came Christian Zionism, itself created to serve FREEMASONIC conspired Zionist gathering in violence,
The English Reformation: How Henry VIII Broke with Rome and Created a Church
Religious Historian
3,881 views
Anglicanism was not born from a divorce alone. Before Henry VIII broke with Rome in 1534, England had lived a century and a half of underground religious dissent, from John Wycliffe and the Lollards to William Tyndale and the first printed Bible in English. What began as a matrimonial crisis became the greatest religious, political and economic revolution in English history. This documentary tells the full story, from the Tudor Reformation to the Elizabethan Settlement.
📖 In this documentary:
✅ Wycliffe, the Lollards, and the long roots of English dissent
✅ William Tyndale and the Bible that changed the English language
✅ The King's Great Matter: Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, and the break of 1534
✅ The Act of Supremacy and the executions of Thomas More and John Fisher
✅ The dissolution of the monasteries and the Pilgrimage of Grace
✅ Thomas Cranmer and the Book of Common Prayer
✅ Mary I, the Marian exiles, and the fires of Smithfield
✅ Elizabeth I and the Settlement of 1559: the via media that defined Anglicanism
📜 A NOTE ON APPROACH
The English Reformation was at once a genuine religious movement, a political revolution, and an act of state power; historians still debate the balance (Duffy against Dickens, Shagan and Marshall in between). This documentary presents the faith, the politics and the violence on all sides, Catholic and Protestant, as the sources record them.
📚 SOURCES:
Diarmaid MacCulloch, Thomas Cranmer: A Life (Yale, 1996)
Eamon Duffy, The Stripping of the Altars (Yale, 1992)
Peter Marshall, Heretics and Believers: A History of the English Reformation (Yale, 2017)
Ethan Shagan, Popular Politics and the English Reformation (Cambridge, 2003)
J. J. Scarisbrick, Henry VIII (Yale, 1968)
David Daniell, William Tyndale: A Biography (Yale, 1994)
Acts of the Realm: Act of Supremacy (1534); Book of Common Prayer (1549); Thirty-nine Articles
Lambeth Palace Library, Thomas Cranmer Research Guide; National Archives UK
📖 ABOUT THIS CHANNEL
Every episode is grounded in primary sources and academic scholarship. I research and write each one myself; AI assists with narration and visuals.
#englishreformation #henryviii #churchofengland #anglicanism #churchhistory
Bracton's Actual Philosophy: While Bracton was a churchman, his most famous political argument was secular and constitutional: "The king must not be under man but under God and the law, because law makes the king" (Lex facit regem). Rather than using the warning in 1 Samuel 8 to reject the idea of a king, Bracton argued that a king is legitimate as long as he exercises his power in accordance with established law
Notice that Bracton bases his work on precedent. And his statement in effect is under law but not under God's law
Sir John Fortescue and Later Jurists: Later medieval and Renaissance legal thinkers, such as Sir John Fortescue (15th century) and Sir Edward Coke (17th century), did frequently invoke 1 Samuel 8 (specifically Samuel's warning about the tyranny, heavy taxation, and conscription of earthly kings). They used this biblical chapter alongside Bracton’s writings to argue against absolute monarchy and protect English common law.