Message Boards

UKTV History

 
 
In Search of Myths and Heroes

In Search of Myths and Heroes

Michael Wood takes us on a journey to uncover some of the most enduring fables from history...
Read more about this
ACF

Posted 11.01AM
Wed 31 May 2006

There were two poems (at least) read - one was the "Tantra of the Great Circles of Time" and the other" The legend of the great Goddess" - could you help me source these?

 
HertfordshirePuritan

Posted 3.26PM
Sun 17 Sep 2006

The amusing if cliche-ridden episode on King Arthur has our intrepid revisionist attending a Benedictine Mass at the Abbey of Mont St Michel before decrying Henry VIII's "Protestant Reformation". I'm sure it didn't feel like that to the many Protestants whom Henry continued to persecute until his death. I had always assumed that Henry was a Humanist Catholic but if Michael Wood says otherwise, I suppose it must be true.

As for Thomas Cromwell's Dissolution of the Monasteries, it was many things - including violent, repressive, and avaricious - but it was never "a visit from the Taliban". Henry wanted their money; he remained an orthodox Catholic! Embarrassed

 
 
 

UKTV History

 
 
 

History On TV Now

History  All UKTV