“Who among us would have had the nerve to turn down Henry VIII?” asks Porter ... who translated the Bible into English, cried, "Lord! Open the king of England's eyes." ...

Henry VIII turned the royal household into a place ... She debated religion with her husband, encouraged radical ideas like reading the Bible in English and oversaw the education of her stepdaught ...

Henry VIII, who founded the Church of England along ... of Hebrew texts over the thousands of years between the Hebrew Bible and the modern state of Israel, drawing on Cambridge’s rich trove ...

She forges history as she reshapes King Henry VIII’s worldview ... him to the idea of kings being next to God in the Bible. She pointed out that at no point did the book mention the Pope.

Henry VIII's break with Rome so he could divorce ... from the dissolution of monasteries to the regulation of Bible access. Presented by Professor Suzannah Lipscomb. The researcher is Alice ...

and in technology — that helped make possible the events chronicled in BATTLE FOR THE BIBLE. When Henry VIII assumed control of the Church in England in the 1530s, he brought to the breaking ...

By Roslyn Sulcas Midway through Karim Aïnouz’s “Firebrand,” King Henry VIII of England takes a break ... (Erin Doherty), who argues that the Bible should be published in English so that ...

GROSS: So is the Bible translated from Latin into English during the period of Henry VIII and in part as a result of Henry VIII? MANTEL: Yes, it is. And this is a great turning point. In 1538 ...

Image: Annette Crosbie as Catherine of Aragon, Dorothy Tutin as Anne Boleyn Keith Michell as Henry VIII and Anne Stallybrass as Jane Seymour in a scene from the series The Six Wives Of Henry VIII.