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    Summary of Gareth Russell's Young and Damned and Fair
    Summary of Gareth Russell's Young and Damned and Fair
    Summary of Gareth Russell's Young and Damned and Fair
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    Summary of Gareth Russell's Young and Damned and Fair

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    #1 The hill where Thomas Cromwell and Walter Hungerford were to be executed had been the site of the finales to some of Cromwell’s worst character assassinations. It had been there, four years earlier, that George Boleyn had perished before similarly large crowds after Cromwell arranged a trial that saw him condemned to death on charges of incest and treason.

    #2 The sixteenth century saw the rise of the ars moriendi, or the art of dying well. It was a goal that was stressed to the Faithful in art, sermons, homilies, and manuals. To die well, in a spirit of resignation to the Will of God, was a goal that was endlessly stressed.

    #3 Sixteenth-century Christians were far more relaxed than modern-day Christians, because their religion was not a theory but a set of facts that could not be debated. The result was that they often behaved far more devoutly, but also far more relaxedly.

    #4 London was the perfect capital for Henry VIII’s domains in 1540. The city was a broken society, with no rain, and the streets were covered in mud when it rained. The spectators passed through the city’s eighteen-foot high defensive walls via one of the seven gates.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIRB Media
    Release dateAug 6, 2022
    ISBN9798822582347
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      Contents

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      Insights from Chapter 1

      #1

      The hill where Thomas Cromwell and Walter Hungerford were to be executed had been the site of the finales to some of Cromwell’s worst character assassinations. It had been there, four years earlier, that George Boleyn had perished before similarly large crowds after Cromwell arranged a trial that saw him condemned to death on charges of incest and treason.

      #2

      The sixteenth century saw the rise of the ars moriendi, or the art of dying well. It was a goal that was stressed to the Faithful in art, sermons, homilies, and manuals. To die well, in a spirit of resignation to the Will of God, was a goal that was endlessly stressed.

      #3

      Sixteenth-century Christians were far more relaxed than modern-day Christians, because their religion was not a theory but a set of facts that could not be debated. The result was that they often behaved far more devoutly, but also far more relaxedly.

      #4

      London was the perfect capital for Henry VIII’s domains in 1540. The city was a broken society, with no rain, and the streets were covered in mud when it rained. The spectators passed through the city’s eighteen-foot high defensive walls via one of the seven gates.

      #5

      The break with Rome was the first step in a legal, cultural, and economic revolution that dissolved the monasteries and took away the land owned by the Church. The conservatives who could not in good conscience abjure their oaths of loyalty to the pope were executed.

      #6

      The Reformation initially brought a different kind of martyrdom for the poor. The Church had not always done all that it could to alleviate poverty, but as medieval Catholicism’s emphasis on charity came under attack by reformers, beggars would have been a depressingly familiar sight for spectators.

      #7

      The Tudor dynasty was successful in holding on to power, but they were also responsible for the schism with the Vatican. They had no clear strategy for the years ahead, and their paranoia led to the arrest of religious radicals.

      #8

      After the deaths of Cromwell and Hungerford, Edmund Bonner, the bishop of London, was tasked with officiating the king’s wedding ceremony with Catherine Howard. The interior of Oatlands Palace was lavishly decorated, but the cost was paid by many of the king’s subjects.

      #9

      The wedding was a formal occasion, and the idea of writing your own vows or putting the couple’s affection for one another at the center of the ceremony would have been bizarre for Catherine and her contemporaries.

      #10

      The bells tolled out to mark a wedding and a death. The Feast of All Souls, the Catholic Day of the Dead, was on November 2, and the Feast of the Assumption, the Virgin Mary’s entry into Heaven, was on August 15.

      Insights from Chapter 2

      #1

      Catherine Howard was born in 1518, but her date of birth is unknown. She was promoted as being born in 1518, but her absence from her father’s will proves nothing.

      #2

      The will of John Leigh, which was written in June 1523, states that the Leighs’ documents should be used as bookends for Catherine’s arrival. They establish a date between the summer of 1523 and the spring of 1527.

      #3

      Catherine’s place of birth is unknown, but it

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