Posted on 08/05/2022 8:22:35 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
This date in 1549 was disgraced in England by one of the bloodiest battlefield atrocities in that realm’s history: the Clyst Heath massacre.
On Whitsunday of that year, two-plus years after the Catholic-except-for-the-Pope king Henry VIII had taken to the grave his restraining orthodoxy, the late king’s reformist archbishop Thomas Cranmer introduced to English churches his magnum opus: the Book of Common Prayer.
Rudely replacing the hodgepodge of old services consecrated by tradition, not to mention the Latin tongue in which they were conducted, with the novel vernacular composition of Anne Boleyn‘s house vicar was not wildly popular in the pews — nowhere less so than in Britain’s western extrusion of Devon and Cornwall, which were as cantankerous as they were Catholic.
Peasants at church that Sunday in those provinces were gobsmacked by the alien English service they heard, and disturbances began almost immediately.
“We wyll have the masse in Latten, as was before,” congregants in the Devon village of Sampford Courtenay petitioned their priest on Whitmonday....
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The religious wars in Europe where just brutal. Thank God many found peace, and freedom from that insanity in the U.S.
The religious wars ended in 1640 with the Peace of Westphalia.
Migration to the north American landmass began after that.
The religious wars were brutal but no more than the other wars of that time like
The war of Spanish succession.
The war of Austrian succession
The 7 years war, arguably the first world war fought on 3 continents.
And we’re not even touching on the Safavid Ottoman or the Ottoman Hapsburg or the ming manchu or the Delhi sultanate, deccan sultan, Vijayanagara wars of the same period.
“The religious wars were brutal but no more than the other wars of that time...”
Or any time. I’m listening to The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire on audiobook. It’s sort of going in one ear and out the other, but I am enjoying it. It’s pretty clear that for most of our lives on earth humans have just been slaughtering one another. Fear that may be starting up again.
The reader is fantastic, some old English fellow, he couldn’t be better. The book is over 100 hours, longer than the Bible! But if you like history and audiobooks, give it a try.
The 30-years War was certainly far, far, far more brutal than anything Europe had seen in a long, long time. I just have a problem calling it a “war of religion” when Catholic France, the largest nation in Europe at the time, Protestant Scandinavia and the Protestant parts of Germany were on one side. It would be more accurate to call them the Wars of Secularization.
I’d also note that at this time, the Enlightenmnet, life expectancy crashed from 50 years to 25 years and the average worker went from having a 180 days off to having 60 days off... if he were lucky.
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Gibbon? I would strongly advise ignoring him. His history is highly distorted and filled with non facts.
He was heavily biased, even for his tine.
And research in the 200 years since gives us better inform7.
Like for instance the Roman empire fell in 1453, not 470. In 470 Odoacer sent the western empire robes to Emperor Zeno in Constantinople.
That was go signify that there was again just one emperor, Zeno.
Or course de facto the rulers in the west paid little more than lip service to the emperor, just as Vhinese dukes did under the Zhou dyn7. But that was a useful fiction.
Only with the crowning of Charlemagne was there a real split.
The easterners never called themselves Byzantines. And during their time they weren’t called Byzantines by outsiders. They were called and called themselves Romans
“I would strongly advise ignoring [Gibbon]. His history is highly distorted and filled with non facts.”
Shhh! No spoilers! I’ve been thinking that way myself, a bit. Not that I’m qualified to judge, because I’m not. Plus, it’s all rather confusing! But I have an iron clad rule that I don’t look into reviews, etc. about a book until I’ve finished it. This one is going to take a while!
But one thing I’ve come to realize lately is I lack any kind of understanding of the timeline of ancient history. That’s a gap I have to rectify.
And, Constantinople is Instanbul, isn’t it? So those people were/became Turks? Is that why Turkey thinks it’s part of Europe? Because I never really get that either. But you know, I could be way off base here.
And you know, there was the Mohammedism, that was before Charlamagne, no?
Sorry, I know nothing, nothing. I’m like a for-real Sergeant Schultz!
The “Religious Wars” were not wars. They were exterminations of Catholics that refused to bow to protestants who were making up their own bible as it suited them so they could steal the lands of the one true Church founded by Jesus Christ personally.
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