From Bette Davis to Cate Blanchett as Queen Elizabeth I, from Charles Laughton to Jonathan Rhys Meyers as King Henry VIII, from “Fire ... the first translation of the Bible in English was ...

June 11 has long been a day marked by significant events that have shaped the world in diverse ways. June 11, 1509, saw the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, 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 ...

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 ...

“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." ...

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 ...

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.