Episode 149: Breaking Up Is Hard To Do
The History of English Podcast
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This is episode one forty nine. In this episode, we're going to look at the events that led to the split between the church of england and the catholic church in rome. It was a messy break up that was triggered by a messy divorce. The marriage of henry the eighth and catherine of aragon finally came to a bitter end. Meanwhile, the fractures that were appearing within the church led religious scholars to ignore the prohibition against vernacular translations of the bible. An english translation of the new testament soon eard, and it gave the people of england access to the scriptures in their own language. And the popularity of that bible had a significant influence on the
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