Tudor Mythology
Tudor Mythology
2013-01-19 15:39:50
Having read Paul's excellent post I just had to comment on a programme I watched last night. It was innocuous enough, 'The History of Carols' - I'd recorded it over Christmas. It was fronted by a bloke whose name I can't remember (and perhaps should) who was very good and looked a bit like the young Benjamin Britten.
It started well enough with the Plainsong and we got through to the 13th century. Then suddenly we leapt to - the Tudors. You know, H7 (he who shopped at Aldi) according to this guy invented, carols, music, dancing, days of feasting (he loved that)and .... the Mystery Plays!! All our good stuff, according to him (or the programme) comes from then, and of course, from Henry the Fat. No, I shrieked at the tele, has no-one listened to 'Music from the Time of R3' which sounds remarkably like the music our Henry 'invented' after he destroyed our music, books and culture when he destroyed the monasteries? It's even got the tune to 'Ein Feste Burg' the great Lutheran hymn, which according to experts appeared 80 years' later.
We then of course went on to the awful effect of Cromwell, who apparently liked a song and jig at home but not in church.
Perhaps Annette's next book should be 'How the Tudors Brainwashed English History' - it could keep her going for some time. And of course the brainwashing still goes on!! Hilary
It started well enough with the Plainsong and we got through to the 13th century. Then suddenly we leapt to - the Tudors. You know, H7 (he who shopped at Aldi) according to this guy invented, carols, music, dancing, days of feasting (he loved that)and .... the Mystery Plays!! All our good stuff, according to him (or the programme) comes from then, and of course, from Henry the Fat. No, I shrieked at the tele, has no-one listened to 'Music from the Time of R3' which sounds remarkably like the music our Henry 'invented' after he destroyed our music, books and culture when he destroyed the monasteries? It's even got the tune to 'Ein Feste Burg' the great Lutheran hymn, which according to experts appeared 80 years' later.
We then of course went on to the awful effect of Cromwell, who apparently liked a song and jig at home but not in church.
Perhaps Annette's next book should be 'How the Tudors Brainwashed English History' - it could keep her going for some time. And of course the brainwashing still goes on!! Hilary
Re: Tudor Mythology
2013-01-19 16:25:16
Just like "What the Tudors did for us" with Hart-Davis, featuring the printing press (invented c.1454), used in England by 1476. I didn't know the Tydder era started that early.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Caxton
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Subject: Tudor Mythology
Having read Paul's excellent post I just had to comment on a programme I watched last night. It was innocuous enough, 'The History of Carols' - I'd recorded it over Christmas. It was fronted by a bloke whose name I can't remember (and perhaps should) who was very good and looked a bit like the young Benjamin Britten.
It started well enough with the Plainsong and we got through to the 13th century. Then suddenly we leapt to - the Tudors. You know, H7 (he who shopped at Aldi) according to this guy invented, carols, music, dancing, days of feasting (he loved that)and .... the Mystery Plays!! All our good stuff, according to him (or the programme) comes from then, and of course, from Henry the Fat. No, I shrieked at the tele, has no-one listened to 'Music from the Time of R3' which sounds remarkably like the music our Henry 'invented' after he destroyed our music, books and culture when he destroyed the monasteries? It's even got the tune to 'Ein Feste Burg' the great Lutheran hymn, which according to experts appeared 80 years' later.
We then of course went on to the awful effect of Cromwell, who apparently liked a song and jig at home but not in church.
Perhaps Annette's next book should be 'How the Tudors Brainwashed English History' - it could keep her going for some time. And of course the brainwashing still goes on!! Hilary
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Caxton
----- Original Message -----
From: hjnatdat
To:
Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2013 3:39 PM
Subject: Tudor Mythology
Having read Paul's excellent post I just had to comment on a programme I watched last night. It was innocuous enough, 'The History of Carols' - I'd recorded it over Christmas. It was fronted by a bloke whose name I can't remember (and perhaps should) who was very good and looked a bit like the young Benjamin Britten.
It started well enough with the Plainsong and we got through to the 13th century. Then suddenly we leapt to - the Tudors. You know, H7 (he who shopped at Aldi) according to this guy invented, carols, music, dancing, days of feasting (he loved that)and .... the Mystery Plays!! All our good stuff, according to him (or the programme) comes from then, and of course, from Henry the Fat. No, I shrieked at the tele, has no-one listened to 'Music from the Time of R3' which sounds remarkably like the music our Henry 'invented' after he destroyed our music, books and culture when he destroyed the monasteries? It's even got the tune to 'Ein Feste Burg' the great Lutheran hymn, which according to experts appeared 80 years' later.
We then of course went on to the awful effect of Cromwell, who apparently liked a song and jig at home but not in church.
Perhaps Annette's next book should be 'How the Tudors Brainwashed English History' - it could keep her going for some time. And of course the brainwashing still goes on!! Hilary
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