The Gunpowder Plot

The 17th century in Europe might be most signal marked by the continuing Renaissance, the Reformation and the struggle for mastery between Imperial and Spanish Habsburgs and French Valois. ETS as well to give you context because no man is an island. After I have done that, I will get James on the throne and cover episodes 325 to 328 exclusive and bring us up to 1605 and the gunpowder plot. The spread of Protestantism for a while seems absolutely unstoppable, despite the re-affirmation of Catholicism at the Council of Trent in 1564. But actually around 1583, a German territory for the first time fought off an attempt to be converted to Protestantism and