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Anyone here watched the British series Wolf Hall? I think last night's episode was the first on PBS, although it has been broadcast in the UK for a year or so. The series (and the novel it is based on), have created quite a controversy.
Anyone here watched the British series Wolf Hall? I think last night's episode was the first on PBS, although it has been broadcast in the UK for a year or so. The series (and the novel it is based on), have created quite a controversy.
I watched it last night and enjoyed it. I had read the books as well.
ETA: More isn't a cut and dried "good moral person" from a religious historical perspective. His own writing Utopia is full of contradictions to Catholic principles. He advocates within for legal divorce, euthanasia and male and female married priests.
ETA: More isn't a cut and dried "good moral person" from a religious historical perspective. His own writing Utopia is full of contradictions to Catholic principles. He advocates within for legal divorce, euthanasia and male and female married priests.
Utopia is a satire and a criticism. Households in Utopia also keep slaves. More wasn't recommending any of those things. He was criticizing them.
Cromwell was a pretty "cut and dried" monster though. When you regret that you've run out of trees from which to hang the local children ... you're a monster. Maybe you pet kitties in your free time, but that just makes you a monster who pets kitties.
I enjoyed it, but it's not entirely historically accurate in my opinion. I enjoy it as a story, not fact.
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