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[Tudor History help needed]
 

offline DeleriousWeasel from Guam on 2005-06-05 13:59 [#01623439]
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hmm I was just wondering idly what your views are on the
English reformation during the reign of Henry VIII and
mainly whether the common folk of England realised that they
were living during a cultural and religious revolution...?

ok, the truth. CS2x and I have to write a massive essay on
this for Tuesday and have exams tomorrow so we dont have
much time. Help...


 

offline earthleakage from tell the world you're winning on 2005-06-05 14:11 [#01623446]
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the saying "grave mistake" dates back to tudor times when
anne boleyn was heard to have said "i have a headache,
henry" to which the reply was "don't worry dear, i'll cure
it for you"


 

offline DeleriousWeasel from Guam on 2005-06-05 14:13 [#01623451]
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thanks.....although what we really need to know is info
regarding whether normal people realised what was going
on...

I cant find any links and am having a mini breakdown -_-


 

offline CS2x from London (United Kingdom) on 2005-06-05 14:19 [#01623456]
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Please don't mention me again in one of your threads to do
with essays, exams, or work. I don't like looking at my
username in such contexts.


 

offline DeleriousWeasel from Guam on 2005-06-05 14:21 [#01623458]
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yeah but its true mate...we're gonna need all the help we
can get now from whoever. I've lost all my notes @_@


 

offline clint from Silencio... (United Kingdom) on 2005-06-05 14:25 [#01623464]
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You're like pinky and the brain.


 

offline redrum from the allman brothers band (Ireland) on 2005-06-05 14:26 [#01623465]
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wikipedia


 

offline DeleriousWeasel from Guam on 2005-06-05 14:27 [#01623466]
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which ones which?

thanks redrum :)


 

offline Drunken Mastah from OPPERKLASSESVIN!!! (Norway) on 2005-06-05 14:27 [#01623467]
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you can be pretty damned sure that the people living during
(just about any) revolution of this type have no idea that
they are living during it, as the revolution isn't given its
name before after it is over... it often happens so slowly
that no-one knows it has happened before it is over.


 

offline clint from Silencio... (United Kingdom) on 2005-06-05 14:30 [#01623473]
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You're clearly Pinky - the Brain wouldn't have to ask.


 

offline CS2x from London (United Kingdom) on 2005-06-05 14:32 [#01623477]
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Heh, it's more that I have a music A level tomorrow which
I'm worried about. History can wait. :)


 

offline DeleriousWeasel from Guam on 2005-06-05 14:40 [#01623486]
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*narf* what are we gonna do tonight Brain?


 

offline DeleriousWeasel from Guam on 2005-06-05 14:40 [#01623488]
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thank you very much! Thats a good point to start me off
*thumbs up*


 

offline stilaktive from a place on 2005-06-05 15:28 [#01623525]
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are you actually from jordon?


 

offline DeleriousWeasel from Guam on 2005-06-05 15:32 [#01623526]
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it's Jordan.

Nope sorry to disappoint you, I am from merry Londinium (as
the romans liked to call it). Are you really from 'a place
on'?


 

offline i_x_ten from arsemuncher on 2005-06-05 19:24 [#01623710]
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this thread convinces me more and more that weasle and cs2x
are one and the same. fucking hell.


 

offline Dannn_ from United Kingdom on 2005-06-05 19:38 [#01623713]
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LAZY_TITLE


 

offline i_x_ten from arsemuncher on 2005-06-05 19:40 [#01623715]
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good grief! i mean, i don't belive it!


 

offline CS2x from London (United Kingdom) on 2005-06-06 00:00 [#01623764]
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I happen to be in his bloody history class, and he decided
to make a thread about the set work. I considered not
replying because of the possibility of claims like yours,
but realised that mods can check IP adresses.


 

offline DeleriousWeasel from Guam on 2005-06-06 07:01 [#01623956]
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why are you the only person who thinks we're the same person
on a dupe account? We're just in the same history class and
are both having problems with a piece of work, I don't think
your contribution to the thread really helped >:(


 

offline Walnut from Somewhere in (Bosnia and Herzegovina) on 2005-06-06 15:47 [#01624508]
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Yo Delerious, I think I might be late wid this pile o crap.
But I hope it helps, mate.

The so called “ignorant commoners” of this period would
probably have had their daily lives altered considerably by
the upheaval such as the anglicised prayers and
split-loyalties over faith, perhaps causing different
“camps” within the towns etc. Especially as during this
time religion still held greater sway over the general
populace and was something that people felt strongly enough
to dissent over, as accusations of heresy and damnation were
still strong enough to get people in fear of their souls,
choosing between papacy and Protestantism was quite an
important one requiring a choice of allegiance: with pope or
state:
In this period, when religion played such an integral part
in both the lives of individuals and the daily life of the
whole society, the Pope's authority over the Church
throughout Christendom was still a very real and effective
power. Nor was it ever really clear just where the Pope's
authority ended and the King's began. Furthermore, churchmen
who owed allegiance to the Pope recognized that as
Englishmen, Frenchmen, Portuguese, etc., they also owed some
allegiance to their King or prince.
Matters were made more difficult because the clergy were the
only large body of educated and literate men in Europe. The
Emperors, Kings and princes relied on them to handle many
important jobs in their governments. Monarchs, always being
short of money, found that an easy way of paying a loyal
clerical servant was to persuade the Pope to appoint him to
a wealthy position in the Church. The cleric would then
continue to work for the King while collecting the money,
though neglecting to do the work, attached to the Church
position. Thus the cleric's duties to the Pope and the
Church would clash with his ambitions for advancement by the
King, and usually in such cases ( the King being nearer )
the Church was left to suffer and decay.

(cont...)


 

offline Walnut from Somewhere in (Bosnia and Herzegovina) on 2005-06-06 15:48 [#01624510]
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Because of the conflicts of interests which are described
above, it quite often happened that the Pope's idea of what
was good for the Church in a particular kingdom conflicted
with what the King wanted for reasons of state. Such
conflicts were regular features of the political life of the
Middle Ages, and were usually solved by hard bargaining. If
a King was determined not to give way in the struggle, as
was Henry II against Thomas a Becket and the Papacy, and
King John against Stephen Langton and Pope Innocent III, the
clash became a full scale trial of strength, and the Pope
usually won. The Papacy's power to excommunicate whole
countries, which were made up of multitudes of devout
Christians, inevitably put the Kings in a weak position.
Princes, Kings and even Emperors reluctantly seeking
forgiveness from a victorious Papacy were unusual, but not
unknown, sights during the Middle Ages.
The Reformation that took place so swiftly in England during
the reign of Henry VIII looked at first as though it might
have been just another of these clashes; with Henry wanting
a divorce from his wife, Catherine of Aragon, who had not
given birth to a son and heir for the throne, and the Pope
refusing to allow the divorce. But a number of factors
combined to make this clash with the Papacy very different
from any of the others which had occurred earlier in English
history.
Ideas such as those of Martin luther, however, had been
around for a while so the change was perhaps not wholly
unexpected, but the upheaval was intensified as people
decided it was time to wage their own private religious wars
against the increasingly corrupt catholic church. The new
“protesting” church was in fact formed without henry
VIII’s support, as he still believed in Catholic doctrine,
just simply not recognizing the Pope’s authority.
(cont...)


 

offline Walnut from Somewhere in (Bosnia and Herzegovina) on 2005-06-06 15:49 [#01624512]
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The choice between damnation of soul after leaving the
established religion that had been in place since they could
remember, or to show allegiance to their king and try to
avoid a charge of treason? An important decision, but
probably the role of the ordinary man would be to try and
keep his head down and try not assert himself as having too
strong a view as those that did felt the consequences. An
example of the uncertainty of the situation and conflicting
messages from the state would be the Pilgrimage of Grace in
1536, a peaceful PROTESTANT march. Henry had over 200 of the
leaders executed.

Many were dissatisfied with the church as it was:
Another crucial difference between this sixteenth century
Church/State clash and earlier ones was the fact that, while
in earlier times the majority of the population had been
more loyal to the Church than to the King, this time the
situation was reversed. Whereas in the twelfth century the
allegiance of the. people had forced the second Henry to do
penance at the tomb of Becket, the eighth Henry found his
subjects ready and willing to accept an attack on the
Church.
The reason for this willingness among ordinary people to see
the Churth attacked and reformed Lay in the condition of the
Church itself, and reflected the general dissatisfaction
felt about it. The clergy were more unpopular in the early
part of the sixteenth century than ever before in England.
Over the centuries the Church had received money and land as
gifts from rich and pious patrons, usually left in wills. By
the sixteenth century the Church's wealth was enormous, and
generally felt to be far in excess of any services they did
for the community in return Clerics seemed increasingly to
be living a life of ease and luxury compared to those for
whom they were supposed to be providing an example of
sanctity and poverty.
(cont...)


 

offline Walnut from Somewhere in (Bosnia and Herzegovina) on 2005-06-06 15:50 [#01624514]
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The ease and luxury were bad enough by themselves, but when
they were combined with vices of sloth, sensuality and
ignorance as well, as indeed they so often were, people
became doubly angry.
One of the clerical privileges which deeply annoyed lay
people was the clergy's advantage before the law. Anyone who
could prove he was a cleric could claim to be tried in a
Church Court, where the punishments were invariably much
lighter than those of lay courts. Thus if a cleric committed
a crime against a layman, even murder, it seemed as though
he was getting off almost scot-free, whereas a layman might
well be executed f or a similar crime. Kings and princes
also resented the fact that profits from Church Courts went
to the Church rather than to the royal exchequer. The main
complaint against the lower clergy was their ignorance and
inability to do their job properly. The sacraments would be
administered to the poor with a chanted rigmarole that must
have increased ideas about the Mass being magic and so
heightened the superstition of the uneducated; the prayers
would be mumbled by a man who had forgotten a Latin he never
understood, and the poor might never have received any
coherent or intelligent instruction in their faith. The
lower clergy's inadequate education and general
unsuitability were ridiculed by leading laymen like Thomas
More and Erasmus, while the privileges they could
nevertheless claim earned the resentment and hatred of an
increasing number of the population.
(cont... yawn)


 

offline Walnut from Somewhere in (Bosnia and Herzegovina) on 2005-06-06 15:51 [#01624515]
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The extensive propaganda campaign employed as described
below indicates the general levels of social upheaval and
threat:
In the early days of the Reformation as his patron Thomas
Cromwell strove to popularize Henry VIII's position against
Rome, Richard Morison, wrote a discourse for the King
focusing on the law as "the piller that . . . holdeth up
euery commen welthe" and arguing that other rulers who had
committed their laws to writing and codification had caused
their "power to waxe great myghty and strong." In attempting
to persuade Henry to do the same he linked a monarch's power
with his subject's knowledge of the law and spoke of "the
euyll that cometh of ignoraunce, and of the goode that
cometh of knowlage." He observed that in order to establish
and maintain its power, the rituals and beliefs of the
Catholic church were "inculked & dryuen into the peoples
heddes, tought in scoles to children, plaied in plaies
before the ignoraunt people, songe in mynstrelles songes,
and bokes in englisshe purposely to be deuysed to declare
the same at large." Rather than simple suppression and
prohibition to counteract these methods, Morison argued that
"a sick commen wealthe wolde be ordred euen as men ordre
ther bodye whan it is diseased. He that hathe an ache in his
arme myndyng to put it awaie dothe not cut of tharme, but
labourith to expell the ache preseruyng the arme for many
good and necessary vses." He advocated the adoption of
similar strategies including triumphs, processions, bonfires
and the noise of "all kyndes of instrumentes" to honour the
successes of the King and his predecessors. With reference
to the plays of Robin Hood and the Sheriff of Nottingham, he
argued, "Howmoche better is it that those plaies shulde be
forboddenn and deleted and others deuysed to setforth and
declare lyuely before the peoples eies, the abhomynation and
wickednes of the bisshop of Rome, . . . and to declare and
open to them thobedience that your subiectes by goddes and
mans lawes owe vnto your maiestie.
(co


 

offline Walnut from Somewhere in (Bosnia and Herzegovina) on 2005-06-06 15:52 [#01624517]
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Into the commen people thynges sooner enter by the eies,
then by the eares: remembryng moche better that they see,
then that they heare."
Morison clearly entertained no doubts that the response of
the "ignoraunt people" would correspond with the intentions
behind the propaganda, and numerous scholarly studies have
argued that Henry, subsequent Tudor and Stuart monarchs, and
members of their court did employ the mechanisms of
spectacle and theatrical patronage as advocated by
Morison--not only to promote the political and religious
beliefs associated with the Reformation but also to
establish a public image and demonstrate their power and
authority. The work of Paul Whitfield White, for instance,
reveals the extent to which theatre was employed as
Protestant and political propaganda under Henry VIII and
Edward VI. Yet despite the demonstrable contribution of such
propaganda to the new hegemony of the Reformation,
circumstances leading up to July of 1553 conspired to usher
in correction and reversal in what historians have
identified as "the only successful sixteenth-century
rebellion," a high point of tension in a century generally
characterized by crises on a number of fronts.
(cont... shit)


 

offline Walnut from Somewhere in (Bosnia and Herzegovina) on 2005-06-06 15:53 [#01624518]
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So basically to sum them up the good old commoners were:

William Melton, Chancellor of York Minster, Sermon to
Ordinands (1510): "For it is from this stupidity and from
this darkness of ignorance that there arises that great and
deplorable evil throughout the whole Church of God, that
everywhere throughout town and countryside there exists a
crop of oafish and boorish priests, some of whom are engaged
on ignoble and servile tasks, while others abandon
themselves to tavern-haunting, swilling and drunkenness.
Some cannot get along without their wenches; others pursue
their amusement in dice and gambling and other such trifling
all day long. There are some who waste their time in hunting
and hawking, and so spend a life which is utterly and wholly
slothful and irreligious even to advanced old age. This is
inevitable, for since they are all completely ignorant of
good literature, how can they obtain improvement or
enjoyment in reading and study?"
William Melton, Chancellor of York Minster, Sermon to
Ordinands (1510): "For it is from this stupidity and from
this darkness of ignorance that there arises that great and
deplorable evil throughout the whole Church of God, that
everywhere throughout town and countryside there exists a
crop of oafish and boorish priests, some of whom are engaged
on ignoble and servile tasks, while others abandon
themselves to tavern-haunting, swilling and drunkenness.
Some cannot get along without their wenches; others pursue
their amusement in dice and gambling and other such trifling
all day long. There are some who waste their time in hunting
and hawking, and so spend a life which is utterly and wholly
slothful and irreligious even to advanced old age. This is
inevitable, for since they are all completely ignorant of
good literature, how can they obtain improvement or
enjoyment in reading and study?"

THE END. AND ALL USELESS.



 

offline Walnut from Somewhere in (Bosnia and Herzegovina) on 2005-06-06 16:02 [#01624528]
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BTW, I ain't a complete spaz. I had to do something similar
so just C&P ed da file. I deleted all of my more refined
stuff I'm afraid, but that was 1 set of notes that narrowly
escaped da recycle bin.


 

offline i_x_ten from arsemuncher on 2005-06-06 17:00 [#01624599]
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what, something weird is going on here.....


 

offline clint from Silencio... (United Kingdom) on 2005-06-06 17:16 [#01624623]
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lol


 

offline pomme de terre from obscure body in the SK System on 2005-06-06 17:18 [#01624627]
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B7's all around. We'll sort this out next week.

Consider this time that can be used to study.


 

offline DeleriousWeasel from Guam on 2005-06-06 17:42 [#01624664]
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thank you!


 

offline DeleriousWeasel from Guam on 2005-06-06 17:47 [#01624670]
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I love you walnut! You've really saved my bacon! wow! :)


 

offline qrter from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2005-06-06 18:00 [#01624690]
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well.... it's pretty damn obvious who this 'Walnut'
character is, isn't it!

welcome Richard.

okay, first question: what does xmd5a mean and why?


 

offline pomme de terre from obscure body in the SK System on 2005-06-06 18:01 [#01624692]
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How did you make the sounds in that one shit trk?


 

offline qrter from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2005-06-06 18:04 [#01624695]
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I'm afraid you'll have to be more specific.

WAY more specific.


 

offline CS2x from London (United Kingdom) on 2005-06-06 18:05 [#01624697]
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Right, that's that sorted then.

I guess I can't be so angry about this thread after all. I
find nothing more dull then writing about tudor history.


 

offline DeleriousWeasel from Guam on 2005-06-06 18:06 [#01624699]
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Richard?

*looks baffled but with a big grin on his face as Walnut
has saved him and drenched his wasted body from the depths
of despair.*


 

offline qrter from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2005-06-06 18:08 [#01624702]
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he has drenched your body?

what the..?


 

offline DeleriousWeasel from Guam on 2005-06-06 18:13 [#01624706]
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perhaps I meant 'wrentched'

sorry I was having a poetic moment because when I say all
that chunk of text it was as if I had a vision into Heaven.
It was good.


 

offline Drunken Mastah from OPPERKLASSESVIN!!! (Norway) on 2005-06-06 18:15 [#01624712]
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are you sure you don't mean dragged?


Attached picture

 

offline pomme de terre from obscure body in the SK System on 2005-06-06 18:17 [#01624717]
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WELCOME

..TO JURASSIC PARK!


 

offline qrter from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2005-06-06 18:19 [#01624724]
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maybe you mean dredged?

either dragged or dredged would be better than 'wrentched',
which isn't even a real word, I think and it kind of scares
me.


 

offline i_x_ten from arsemuncher on 2005-06-06 18:19 [#01624726]
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this thread is much like a strap on cock


 

offline qrter from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2005-06-06 18:21 [#01624728]
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you're the expert.


 

offline pomme de terre from obscure body in the SK System on 2005-06-06 18:21 [#01624729]
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This, coming from the guy who says "noone".


 

offline Drunken Mastah from OPPERKLASSESVIN!!! (Norway) on 2005-06-06 18:22 [#01624730]
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yeah, I too often find that real words are better to use in
conversations...


 

offline Drunken Mastah from OPPERKLASSESVIN!!! (Norway) on 2005-06-06 18:23 [#01624733]
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In the past, strap-on dildos were typically flimsy
all-in-one dildo/harness contraptions, usually made of
elastic, which proved uncomfortable for the wearer (imagine
the toy snapping back onto your body when your partner
unclenches it!). Today’s harnesses come in a much greater
variety of styles, including sexy leather or sporty webbing.
They’re fully adjustable, so you can get a secure fit,
regardless of your body type.



 

offline CS2x from London (United Kingdom) on 2005-06-06 18:26 [#01624736]
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A thread about tudor history morphs into information about
strap-on dildos.

One reason why I love xltronic.


 

offline qrter from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2005-06-06 18:29 [#01624741]
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This coming from the guy who puts a comma after "This".


 


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