ENG302Y1 Lecture Notes - Lady Jane Grey, Richard Tottel, House Of Tudor
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Henry viii, edward vi, mary i, elizabeth i. There are problems with all these labels because they leave out a lot of other important things. Notably, calling the period the renaissance implies that during the medieval period (before this one) abruptly ended and they never paid attention to the classics or did anything important. Modern interpretations of history tend to make everything sexy. Writers of the 16th century tended to do similar things in writing about & interpreting the past. 1486 - henry vii (tudor) marries elizabeth of york, uniting houses of york and lancaster. 1509 - henry viii becomes kind of england. 1513 - machiavelli"s the prince circulates in ms. 1517 - martin luther nails his 95 theses to a church door. 1529 - henry viii dismisses lord chancellor wolsey for failing to obtain the pope"s consent to divorce from catherine of aragorn. Henry viii begins to cut ties with the.