Free Thinking: Breaking Free - Martin Luther’s Revolution. New Research into the Reformation

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🗓️ 3 May 2017

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Rana Mitter looks at new research into the way daily life changed in Britain after the Reformation for Radio 3's series of programmes exploring Martin Luther's Revolution. His guests are:

Alec Ryrie, Professor in Religion and Theology at the University of Durham and author of: Protestants: The Faith that Made the Modern World 201; Tom Charlton, New Generation Thinker is currently studying the history of Protestant nonconformity at Dr Williams's Library, London Elizabeth Goodwin from the University of Sheffield and Birmingham is an expert on Nuns in the Reformation Tara Hamling from the University of Birminghamb is the author of Decorating the Godly Household: Religious Art in Protestant Britain c.1560-c.1660.

Producer Jacqueline Smith

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0:38.2	Hello, Henry VIII wanted a new wife, repeat, behead, repeat. And that's why England
0:45.2	turned against the Pope and had the Reformation, 1533 and all that. Well, no, not really. The
0:51.8	aftermath of the English Reformation is still with us today. A still
0:55.3	ambiguous relationship with Catholicism, ambivalent relationship to Europe, the constant
1:00.2	parade of Tudors on television. But when we turn away from those big characters, Henry
1:05.4	the 8th, Anne Boleyn, Thomas Cromwell, Protestant Edward, Catholic Mary, sort of accommodating Elizabeth, and when we look at the picture on the ground, there's a more complex and much more interesting new picture emerging.
1:18.9	Today on free thinking, we'll be hearing from young researchers at the cutting edge of Reformation Studies.
1:24.5	When it comes to our understanding of the Reformation, what's myth and what's real?
1:29.2	Was a whole wealth of English art destroyed by the Tewksbury Taliban and the Ipswich Isil
1:34.1	smashing up idolatrous Catholic images? Did people really turn up at the Church of England,
1:39.3	but keep a little bit of the Pope in their hearts at home? And what happened to the nuns after Henry the 8th forced them on the run? To help join up some of the Pope in their hearts at home. And what happened to the nuns after Henry
1:44.8	8th forced them on the run? To help join up some of the dots and put their stories into
1:49.6	wider context, we have Alec Riry, Professor in Religion and Theology at the University of Durham,
1:55.5	an author of the newly published Protestants, the faith that made the modern world.
2:00.7	Alec, within the Academy, the field of Reformation Studies has always had the reputation as a slightly turbulent one.
2:07.9	Well, if you'd asked me that 15, 20 years ago, I would have said that English Reformation Studies is like a sack full of ferrets.
2:15.0	This was a tremendously argumentative subject with scholars
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