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Nov 25, 2021 · Celebrating the relatively new (and non-biblical) feast of the Virgin’s Nativity, Fulbert endorsed the Church’s greater openness to apocryphal accounts of Mary’s life, arguing that ‘particularly on this day it (page 103) p. 103 seemed that the book that was found written concerning [Mary’s] origin and life ought to be read in church, even though the [Church] Fathers did not decide to ...
Apr 26, 2018 · Mary, Queen of Scots, remains one of the most contested figures of the early modern era. Born in December 1542, she became Queen of Scots at six days old following the death of her father, James V, from dysentery. During her minority, Scotland was ruled by two regents, her heir apparent, James Hamilton, Earl of Arran and Duke of Châtelherault ...
- Mary I: Early Life
- Mary I: The Princess Made Illegitimate
- Mary I: Path to The Throne
- Mary I: Reign as Queen
- Mary I: The Protestant Martyrs
Mary Tudor was born on February 16, 1516. She was the fifth child of Henry VIIIand Catherine of Aragon but the only one to survive past infancy. Educated by an English tutor with written instructions from the Spanish humanist Juan Luis Vives, she excelled in Latin and, like her father, was an adept musician. At age 6 she was betrothed to Charles V,...
In 1533 Henry VIII married Anne Boleyn, who bore him a daughter, the future Elizabeth I. Mary was demoted from her own household and forced to take up residence with her infant half-sister. In 1536 Catherine of Aragon died at her castle in Cambridgeshire, Anne Boleyn was accused of treason and executed, and Mary was forced to deny the pope’s author...
Edward VI remained a minor for his entire six-year reign. The lords of Somerset and of Northumberland served as his regents, working to expand his father’s ecclesiastical changes. They also altered the order of succession to favor the Protestants, placing Henry VIII’s niece Lady Jane Gray next in line to the throne. When Edward died in 1553, howeve...
After taking the throne, Mary quickly reinstated her parents’ marriage and executed Northumberland for his role in the Jane Gray affair. Her initial ruling council was a mix of Protestants and Catholics, but as her reign progressed she grew more and more fervent in her desire to restore English Catholicism. In 1554 she announced her intention to ma...
Mary soon moved from simply reversing her father’s and Edward’s anti-Catholic policies to actively persecuting Protestants. In 1555 she revived England’s heresy laws and began burning offenders at the stake, starting with her father’s longtime advisor Thomas Cranmer, the archbishop of Canterbury. Almost 300 convicted heretics, mostly common citizen...
Apr 26, 2018 · A magisterial work that well represents a historiographical view of Mary and her reign, at the time of its writing, a view that has since changed significantly. Guy, John. Tudor England. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988. A well-researched and stimulating study of the Tudor monarchs that needs to be read alongside more recent works on Mary ...
In liturgy and prayer, in homilies and devotional poetry, in a vast array of material forms Mary was made familiar, above all as mother, as intercessor and companion. Unlike the sacraments, among them the all-important Eucharist, Mary was rarely a subject of discipline or of scrutiny; she entered people’s lives early and seemingly effectively.
Feb 28, 2023 · The subject of the beauty of the Virgin Mary was a delicate one in medieval aesthetic thought. Halfway between the sacred and the profane, the theological and the anthropological, the question of Mary’s beauty opened up a strictly material dimension of appreciation that could generate problems related to decorum.
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In Scotland, France and England, Mary was a contemporary of some of the most influential personalities of the Renaissance era. Along with Catherine de Medici, Mary Tudor, and Elizabeth I, Mary was one of a small group of women, Renaissance queens who – in an era still largely dominated by men – wielded considerable power.
