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Tudors Dynasty

How Faith Shaped the Tudor Throne

Tudors Dynasty

RedTop Media / Rebecca Larson

History

4.4794 Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Today, I’m thrilled to welcome back my longtime friend and the ever-insightful historian, Leanda de Lisle. Together, we explore how faith shaped the Tudor dynasty, from Henry VIII’s seismic religious upheaval to Elizabeth I’s reign and the unifying vision of James I.

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Website: https://www.leandadelisle.com/about/

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Host: Rebecca Larson

Guest: Leanda de Lisle

Transcript

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0:00.0

The Tudors Dynasty podcast.

0:03.0

Hello and welcome back to the show. I'm your host, Rebecca Larson. And today I'm so pleased to

0:08.4

welcome back to the show for the first time in a while, Leanda Delisle. Welcome back, Leanda.

0:13.7

It's great to be back. Thanks for asking me.

0:16.8

You're one of my favorite guests because you hold such a wealth of knowledge in that head of yours.

0:22.0

And I'm excited to talk about the topic that we're going to discuss today because this is one that I don't really talk about much because I feel like it's really outside my comfort zone.

0:31.7

But we're going to talk about faith in the tutors, aren't we?

0:35.6

Yes, we are.

0:37.0

And it is a sort of, it is a complex subject.

0:40.8

I found it quite complicated myself when I was, well, I had to obviously study the changes

0:46.7

of faith in all the Tudor books I've done.

0:49.7

But my book on the Tudor family, the whole dynasty, where were there were so many religious changes in particular.

0:58.5

Yeah, I had to, you know, borrow on down into it.

1:03.3

Well, here's, I have an interesting little anecdote here for you because I was at a meeting yesterday and in the spring, it's just a little sidebar here,

1:12.0

in the spring I coach track and field at my old high school, middle school. And we had a meeting

1:18.4

with all of the coaches. And two of the coaches who are just joining this year are rather young.

1:23.6

And they both attend some type of ministry school.

1:29.0

And they were asking me about my podcast.

1:32.5

And the first thing that the young man said, who is, I believe he was 20 years old.

1:36.7

So I just want everybody to understand how far the tutors reach.

1:40.7

I said to him, you know, well, I talk about the tutors and Henry the 8th.

1:44.2

And he goes, oh, I know about him and how he started a new church.

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