[GMMAC]

I wasn’t thinking quite that deep ... but more superficially as merely the bankrollers of Christopher Columbus whom most folks wouldn’t consider particularly contemporaneous with Henry VIII.

[familyop]

"I wasn’t thinking quite that deep ... but more superficially as merely the bankrollers of Christopher Columbus whom most folks wouldn’t consider particularly contemporaneous with Henry VIII."

...true! Study of more original material from the Medieval or the Renaissance reveals many surprises--mostly disgusting ones, IMO. The best that I could glean from Columbus' history, was that his navigation work kept him out many of the moral troubles that many of his contemporaries fell into. Relative to many other dignitaries of his time, it appears that he wasn't all that bad. As for Henry VIII, most people seem unaware that he only had two of his wives beheaded. [g] For readers who idealize the Medieval Period, they should study "hanging, drawing and quartering."