William Tyler
Renaissance and Reformation
Summary
Two European movements dominated French history during the 16th century. How did these movements determine the future history of France, culturally, theologically, and politically? A fascinating, in-depth journey into this pivotal era in Western history.
William Tyler
William Tyler has spent his entire professional life in adult education, beginning at Kingsgate College in 1969. He has lectured widely for many public bodies, including the University of Cambridge and the WEA, in addition to speaking to many clubs and societies. In 2009, William was awarded the MBE for services to adult education, and he has previously been a scholar in residence at the London Jewish Cultural Centre.
Later. We have news sheets in the 16th and 17th centuries. We begin to have newspapers at the end of the 17th and the beginning of the 18th century. But at this time you do get news sheets. So you could have received a new sheet from Paris, and the priest or the vicar or whoever would read it out in church.
No, it’s in the reign of Louis XIV. Henry IV introduced the Edict of Nantes, which gave them lots of rights. And what Louis XIV did was introduced the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. They always had complicated names. I never worked it out at school. The Edict of Nantes gives them rights in Henry IV’s reign, the revocation of the Edict of Nantes takes their rights away, and that’s where many of them came here. Where did the name Bourbon come from? Not from a sweet, I can tell you that. I don’t know the origin of the surname. It was simply the surname of the family.
Well, Catholics have baptism, they have infant baptism. So does the Church of England. But the Protestant churches largely required adult baptism. That is to say, they wanted the adult to know what they were promising and not have godparents promising on behalf of an infant in arms. And so there is a difference. There’s lovely stories of very, where I used to live, there was a lovely story from the 19th century of a very fundamentalist Baptist church, and they baptised adults in a pond outside a village. And the non-Baptist children, little boys used to turn up because when they went into the water, the costumes of the ladies being baptised rose high, and I won’t say any more.