Series 1 Episode 3 - The Protestant Boy King. - Shorter listen. (Transcript added).

Feel free to email me your thoughts.The Artwork is The Family of Henry VIII, c. 1543-1547The Music is     John Taverner: Quemadmodum , Psalm 42, c.1540.This moving and beautiful piece is thought to be a setting of the first two verses of Psalm 42. The piece is important in the transition from the florid pre-reformation style to the imitative Renaissance style.In 1547, King Henry VIII's nine-year-old son, Edward VI, became the first English monarch raised as a Protestant.John Calvin, a notable French Protestant reformer, was a key figure in the second wave of the Protestant Reformation. He published his influential work, "Institutes of the Christian Religion." During the 16th-century Protestant Reformation, Anabaptism emerged as a movement that distinguished itself from the Catholic Church through its unique principle of adult baptism.John Calvin was born on 10 July 1509 in Picardy, France. He was a French theologian and pastor in Geneva during the Protestant Reformation. As the leading French Protestant reformer, he played a crucial role in the second generation of the Protestant Reformation. His interpretation of Christianity, presented in "Institutes of the Christian Religion," first published in Basel, Switzerland, became a seminal work of systematic theology.Ulrich Zwingli was born in the Swiss Confederation on 1 January 1484 in Wildhaus. He led the Reformation in Switzerland during a period of emerging Swiss patriotism, believing that the state was governed with divine sanction and that the church and state were subject to God's sovereign rule.Peter Martyr Vermigli was born in Florence on 8 September 1499. He was a leading Italian religious reformer whose primary focus was Eucharistic doctrine.