house of tudor – VoVatia (original) (raw)

Land of Dairy Milk Bars and Honey

Tonight, I’m going to take a look at British Israelism, the movement popular in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that insisted the British were descended from refugees from Israel. This was essentially a way to be pro-Semitic and … Continue reading →

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Angling Toward Anglicanism

We’ve been looking in previous weeks about how Protestantism took hold in various European nations, but I think England might be the only case where it was instituted by a king, and for personal reasons at that. The monarch in … Continue reading →

Posted in Anglicanism, Catholicism, Christianity, Historical Personages, History, Protestant Reformation, Religion, United Kingdom | Tagged anne boelyn, anne of cleves, archbishop of canterbury, arthur tudor, catherine howard, catherine of aragon, catherine parr, edward vi of england, elizabeth i of england, ferdinand ii of aragon, greensleeves, henry viii of england, house of tudor, isabella of castile, jane seymour, queen mary tudor, thomas cranmer |