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Tudors: The History of England from Henry VIII to Elizabeth I (The History of England, #2) QUOTES

Tudors: The History of England from Henry VIII to Elizabeth I (The History of England, #2) QUOTES

1 " Yet the stomach for war breeds an appetite for money. "

― Peter Ackroyd , Tudors: The History of England from Henry VIII to Elizabeth I (The History of England, #2)

2 " In the summer of that year two women were stripped and beaten with rods, their ears nailed to a wooden post, for having said that ‘queen Katherine is the true queen of England "

― Peter Ackroyd , Tudors: The History of England from Henry VIII to Elizabeth I (The History of England, #2)

3 " The credulity of crowds is never-ending. "

― Peter Ackroyd , Tudors: The History of England from Henry VIII to Elizabeth I (The History of England, #2)

4 " worshipped was that of Mammon. It is difficult to estimate the size of monastic occupation. At the time it was believed that the clergy owned one third of the land, but it may be safe to presume that the monks controlled one sixth of English territory. "

― Peter Ackroyd , Tudors: The History of England from Henry VIII to Elizabeth I (The History of England, #2)

5 " 1540 and 1547 prices rose by 46 per cent; in 1549 they had risen by another 11 per cent. "

― Peter Ackroyd , Tudors: The History of England from Henry VIII to Elizabeth I (The History of England, #2)

6 " In the medieval marriage service the wife had pledged to be ‘bonner and buxom in bed and in board’. This has the nice alliteration of an older language. Now both partners were asked to ‘love and to cherish’ ‘for better, for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health’. "

― Peter Ackroyd , Tudors: The History of England from Henry VIII to Elizabeth I (The History of England, #2)

7 " He had read the text in Leviticus that prohibited any man from marrying the widow of a dead brother. "

― Peter Ackroyd , Tudors: The History of England from Henry VIII to Elizabeth I (The History of England, #2)

8 " That concept is more properly known as ‘caesaro-papism’; the king was now both Caesar and pope. "

― Peter Ackroyd , Tudors: The History of England from Henry VIII to Elizabeth I (The History of England, #2)

9 " A popular phrase of the time was that ‘these be no causes to die for’. "

― Peter Ackroyd , Tudors: The History of England from Henry VIII to Elizabeth I (The History of England, #2)

10 " The visitors then turned their attention to the universities, where it was decided that the learning of the scholastics and the medieval doctors should be abandoned in favour of the humanist learning approved by Erasmus and other reformers. "

― Peter Ackroyd , Tudors: The History of England from Henry VIII to Elizabeth I (The History of England, #2)

11 " importune "

― Peter Ackroyd , Tudors: The History of England from Henry VIII to Elizabeth I (The History of England, #2)

12 " This would be entirely consistent with a reformation that was less about the assertion of faith and principle than about the redistribution of power and wealth. "

― Peter Ackroyd , Tudors: The History of England from Henry VIII to Elizabeth I (The History of England, #2)

13 " One Irishman, Melaghin McCabb, boasted that he had dispatched eighty Spaniards with his gallowglass axe. "

― Peter Ackroyd , Tudors: The History of England from Henry VIII to Elizabeth I (The History of England, #2)

14 " The French king had three times as many subjects, and also triple the resources; the Spanish king possessed six times as many subjects, and five times the revenue. "

― Peter Ackroyd , Tudors: The History of England from Henry VIII to Elizabeth I (The History of England, #2)

15 " This was a serious matter. No one was permitted to engage in business with Hunne. He would be without company, because no one would wish to be seen with an excommunicate. He would also of course be assigned to the fires of damnation for eternity. "

― Peter Ackroyd , Tudors: The History of England from Henry VIII to Elizabeth I (The History of England, #2)

16 " It may be noted, in parenthesis, that in this period the coach was introduced to England "

― Peter Ackroyd , Tudors: The History of England from Henry VIII to Elizabeth I (The History of England, #2)

17 " caitiffs’. "

― Peter Ackroyd , Tudors: The History of England from Henry VIII to Elizabeth I (The History of England, #2)

18 " So in the 1560s the monstrous carriage, as well as the queen’s marriage, was the talk of London. "

― Peter Ackroyd , Tudors: The History of England from Henry VIII to Elizabeth I (The History of England, #2)

19 " and conferred on Henry the title of Fidei Defensor, ‘Defender of the Faith’. It was not supposed to be inherited, but the royal family have used it ever since. "

― Peter Ackroyd , Tudors: The History of England from Henry VIII to Elizabeth I (The History of England, #2)

20 " extirpate "

― Peter Ackroyd , Tudors: The History of England from Henry VIII to Elizabeth I (The History of England, #2)