【辩论式评判】历史vs.亨利八世【视频+英文文稿】

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　　他是一位强大的国王，他和罗马教廷的分家，永远改变了英国历史的轨道。但，他是让国民脱离腐败的迷人改革者，还是把国会拿来私用的霸道暴君？在“历史 vs. 亨利八世”中，马克罗宾森与艾力克斯詹德勒让这位争议性的人物接受审判。

　　He was a powerful king whose break with the church of Rome would forever change the course of English history. But was he a charismatic reformer who freed his subjects from a corrupt establishment or a bullying tyrant who used Parliament for his own personal gain? Mark Robinson and Alex Gendler put this controversial figure on trial in History vs. Henry VIII.

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　　He was a powerful king whose break with the church of Rome

　　would forever change the course of English history.

　　But was he a charismatic reformer or a bullying tyrant?

　　Find out on History versus Henry VIII.

　　Judge: Order, order. Now, who do we have here? Looks like quite the dashing fellow.

　　Defense: Indeed, your honour. This is Henry VIII, the acclaimed king

　　who reformed England's religion and government

　　and set it on course to becoming a modern nation.

　　Prosecutor: I beg to differ. This is a cruel, impulsive, and extravagant king

　　who had as little regard for his people as he did for his six wives.

　　Judge: Six wives?

　　Defense: Your honor, Henry's first marriage was arranged for him

　　when he was only a child.

　　He only married Catherine of Aragon to strengthen England’s alliance with Spain.

　　Prosecutor: An alliance he was willing to toss aside with no regard for the nation.

　　Defense: Henry had every regard for the nation.

　　It was imperative to secure the Tudor dynasty by producing a male heir –

　　something Catherine failed to do in over twenty years of marriage.

　　Prosecutor: It takes two to make an heir, your honor.

　　Defense: Ahem. Regardless, England needed a new queen to ensure stability,

　　but the Pope refused to annul the union and let the king remarry.

　　Judge: Sounds like quite a pickle. Can’t argue with the Pope.

　　Prosecutor: And yet that’s exactly what the king decided to do.

　　He uprooted the country’s religious foundations

　　and broke the Church of England away from Rome,

　　leading to centuries of strife.

　　Defense: All Henry did was give the Church honest domestic leadership.

　　He freed his subjects from the corrupt Roman Catholic establishment.

　　And by rejecting the more radical changes of the Protestant reformation,

　　he allowed his people to preserve most of their religious traditions.

　　Prosecutor: Objection! The Church had been

　　a beloved and popular institution

　　that brought comfort and charity to the masses.

　　Thanks to Henry, church property was seized;

　　hospitals closed, and precious monastic libraries lost forever,

　　all to enrich the Crown.

　　Defense: Some of the funds were used to build new cathedrals

　　and open secular schools.

　　And it was necessary for England to bring its affairs

　　under its own control rather than Rome’s.

　　Prosecutor: You mean under Henry’s control.

　　Defense: Not true. All of the king’s major reforms went through Parliament.

　　No other country of the time allowed its people such a say in government.

　　Prosecutor: He used Parliament as a rubber stamp for his own personal will.

　　Meanwhile he ruled like a tyrant, executing those he suspected of disloyalty.

　　Among his victims were the great statesman and philosopher Thomas More

　　– once his close friend and advisor –

　　and Anne Boleyn, the new queen Henry had torn the country apart to marry.

　　Judge: He executed his own wife?

　　Defense: That…wasn’t King Henry’s initiative.

　　She was accused of treason in a power struggle

　　with the King’s minister, Thomas Cromwell.

　　Prosecutor: The trial was a sham

　　and she wouldn’t have been convicted without Henry’s approval.

　　Besides, he wasn’t too upset by the outcome -

　　he married Jane Seymour just 11 days later!

　　Defense: A marriage that, I note, succeeded in producing a male heir

　　and guaranteeing a stable succession…

　　though the new queen tragically died in childbirth.

　　Prosecutor: This tragedy didn’t deter him

　　from an ill conceived fourth marriage to Anne of Cleves,

　　which Henry then annulled on a whim and used as an excuse to execute Cromwell.

　　As if that weren’t enough, he then married Catherine Howard

　　– a cousin of Anne Boleyn – before having her executed too.

　　Defense: She was engaged in adultery to which she confessed!

　　Regardless, Henry’s final marriage to Catherine Parr

　　was actually very successful.

　　Prosecutor: His sixth! It only goes to show he was an intemperate king

　　who allowed faction and intrigue to rule his court,

　　concerned only with his own pleasure and grandiosity.

　　Defense: That grandiosity was part of the king’s role as a model for his people.

　　He was a learned scholar and musician who generously patronized the arts,

　　as well as being an imposing warrior and sportsman.

　　And the lavish tournaments he hosted

　　enhanced England’s reputation on the world stage.

　　Prosecutor: And yet both his foreign and domestic policies were a disaster.

　　His campaigns in France and his brutal invasion of Scotland drained the treasury,

　　and his attempt to pay for it by debasing the coinage led to constant inflation.

　　The lords and landowners responded by removing access to common pastures

　　and turning the peasant population into beggars.

　　Defense: Beggars who would soon become yeomen farmers.

　　The enclosures made farming more efficient, and created a labor surplus

　　that laid the foundation for the Industrial Revolution.

　　England would never have become the great power that it did without them

　　…and without Henry.

　　Judge: Well, I think no matter what,

　　we can all agree he looks great in that portrait.

　　A devout believer who broke with the Church.

　　A man of learning who executed scholars.

　　A king who brought stability to the throne,

　　but used it to promote his own glory,

　　Henry VIII embodied all the contradictions of monarchy

　　on the verge of the modern era.

　　But separating the ruler from the myth is all part of putting history on trial.

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