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Bathing was scarcely feasible much of the year, but its absence does not appear to have been much lamented.
A canard. People did not soak in tubs but they did WASH.
In England as elsewhere, May was a popular month for weddings because, with winter well past, brides and grooms could be given a scrubbing without undue discomfort or perceived risk. Any odors not removed by a plunge into the nearest stream could be camouflaged, or such was the hope, behind a wedding bouquet.
this is a base canard.
got himself hired by a banker in Florence.
"A banker in Florence" means Medici. The idea that his cunning and manipulativeness came out of nowhere is a bit far-fetched.
The idea that Christians owe unqualified obedience to the state became at that point deeply implanted in Lutheranism and therefore in the psyche of Protestant northern Germany.
I think this has extended to Protestant US as well, dammit,
It was affecting everyday life more dramatically and profoundly than the automobile would in the twentieth century, or the Internet in the twenty-first.
I'd like to see some substantiation of that.
WHAT IS CALLED THE RENAISSANCE PAPACY WILL STINK IN the nostrils of history to the end of time. Its story is a litany of violence and deceit, of greed and pride and murderous ambition—finally of a corruption that reached such depths as to defy belief.
the most notorious of whom were his son Cesare (a ruthless adventurer who became archbishop of Valencia at age seventeen, and for whom Machiavelli wrote The Prince) and
Several of these assertions are in dispute. But Machiavelli wrote "The Prince" about Ferdinand of Aragon.
the Bible is an elusive work, easily misinterpreted by readers with little understanding of its linguistic and historical roots.
Tell me about it....
Glastonbury Tor, a
Uhhh... Church there. Church there with some rather strong historical significance to the hearts and minds of many English.
Catherine like Anne Boleyn before her was a fervent evangelical,
I really disagree that Boleyn was.
He continued to deteriorate through the first months of 1533,
Edward wasn't born yet!!
It seemed contrary to nature that any woman, even a queen, should not be subordinate to some man.
A bit peculiar, what with her grandmother being a queen regnant and all.
“dame school,”
Dame schools didn't get started until Colonial times. The very name, combined iwth the assertion that women were seldom well-educated, should be something of a clue here.
