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Há 6 dias · King Edward VI of England, in whose reign the reform of the English Church moved in a more Protestant direction When Henry died in 1547, his nine-year-old son, Edward VI , inherited the throne. Because Edward was given a Protestant humanist education, Protestants held high expectations and hoped he would be like Josiah , the biblical king of Judah who destroyed the altars and images of Baal .
Há 3 dias · Colin Firth plays the future King George VI who, to cope with a stammer, sees Lionel Logue, an Australian speech and language therapist played by Geoffrey Rush. The men become friends as they work together, and after his brother abdicates the throne , the new king relies on Logue to help him make his first wartime radio broadcast upon Britain's declaration of war on Germany in 1939.
Há 1 dia · James VI of Scotland and Robert Kirk discussed elves seriously; elf beliefs are prominently attested in the Scottish witchcraft trials, particularly the trial of Issobel Gowdie; and related stories also appear in folktales, There is a significant corpus of ballads narrating stories about elves, such as Thomas the Rhymer, where a man meets a female elf; Tam Lin, The Elfin Knight, and Lady ...
Há 3 dias · Pope Alexander VI [Note 2] (born Rodrigo de Borja; [Note 3] 1 January 1431 – 18 August 1503) ( epithet: Valentinus ("The Valencian ")) [6] was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 11 August 1492 until his death in 1503. Born into the prominent Borgia family in Xàtiva in the Kingdom of Valencia under the Crown of ...
Há 2 dias · New Haven, Yale University Press, 2020, ISBN: 9780300243581; 288pp.; Price: £25.00. This volume arrives with high praise. The book ‘ [d]eserves to become another classic’, opines Peter Burke at the top of the front cover. It ‘ [c]ompletely overhauls our view’, observes Ronald Hutton somewhat further down.
Há 3 dias · In 1610 James VI and I provided 24 chaplains to serve monthly in pairs in his son’s household at the creation of Henry as Prince of Wales , an arrangement that derived from his own household in which 48 chaplains served ‘in Ordinary’, four by four.
Há 5 dias · James VI: September 1591 607. Robert Bowes to Burghley. [Sept. 2.] Was informed yesterday by a person of quality that Earl Bothwell would remain in Scotland and had sent for some of his horses; and also that it was intended to surprise the King riding between Stirling and Falkland or in other fit place, in which conspiracy sundry noblemen are named who would never enter into such traitorous ...
