RoseOfGuadalupe Posted October 14, 2014 Share Posted October 14, 2014 My English teacher was saying something about how he personally killed a bunch of Protestants. Is this true? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Basilisa Marie Posted October 14, 2014 Share Posted October 14, 2014 My English teacher was saying something about how he personally killed a bunch of Protestants. Is this true? I can't say 100%, but doing so seems extremely out of character from what historical facts we do know about him. Sounds like something people would have made up to get him beheaded. :hehe2: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luigi Posted October 14, 2014 Share Posted October 14, 2014 I read a biography of him a long time ago. He may have been responsible for some laws condemning Protestants to death - I don't remember reading that, but he was pretty high up in the government, so it's possible - but he never executed anyone himself. Military guys would have done that, or executioners - he was neither. More anti-Catholic propaganda. If the prof has any proof, I'd be interested to see it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yaatee Posted October 15, 2014 Share Posted October 15, 2014 I think that it's well known that Thomas More prosecuted and killed protestants. Of course he didn't personally light the fire. Thanks to the popular play and movie, "A Man For All Seasons", which I saw on Broadway, and the magnificent portrait by Hans Holbein in the Frick Museum in New York, he possesses a certain aura. This was put down definitively by Hilary Mantel in her novel, "Wolf Hall", which won the prestigeous Man Booker Prize in England, the equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize in the US. His true reputation has been known to English historians for some time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Luigi Posted October 15, 2014 Share Posted October 15, 2014 His true reputation does not begin to compare with Henry the Eighth, and Henry the Eighth's reputation does not begin to compare with Oliver Cromwell's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yaatee Posted October 24, 2014 Share Posted October 24, 2014 His true reputation does not begin to compare with Henry the Eighth, and Henry the Eighth's reputation does not begin to compare with Oliver Cromwell's. Oliver Cromwell's reputation was at least partially restored by Hilary Mantel's novels, both of which winning the Man Booker prize in England. Nobody said that Henry VIII or Cromwell were saints. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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