A Man for All Seasons

The law and the Church clashed under Henry VII, who had a sense of himself as absolute monarch, able to do whatever he wanted in order to accomplish what he desired. When the laws stood in his way, he changed the laws or destroyed those (like Sir Thomas More) who challenged his right to do so. Henry VIII was king of England from 1509 to 1547, and he instigated the Reformation of the English church in order to secure a divorce Catherine of Aragon. The new marriage seemed happy for a number of years, but Henry became concerned because Catherine had borne no male heir to continue the Tudor line. He decided that his marriage displeased God, and he found justification for this in a biblical text (Leviticus 20:21) which held that marriage to a dead brother's widow is forbidden. Having come to this belated decision, Henry

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