Bloody Mary
玛丽一世(1553~1558在位)成长于欧洲宗教改革的汹涌大潮之中,其时英国也成为天主教和新教进行殊死搏杀的场所。她的母亲凯瑟琳是一位笃信天主教的西班牙公主,而她的父亲亨利八世为了达到与她母亲离婚的目的,不惜背叛天主教,与罗马教皇决裂,并在国内扶持新教,迫害天主教徒。也许由于上述的成长...
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【整理】 血腥玛丽-4 by lurker2006
As Edward VI, is lying dying, he is fully aware that he is facing a crisis. It looks strongly as if the only option for his succession is for Mary to come to the throne. Mary, as we know, has battled against Edward to retain the Mass in her own household. So this pious little protestant evangelical king is faced with all his work being undone, the temple being rent asunder, Catholicism returning to England and so he inaugurates a plot.
Edward's advisers proposed Mary's protestant cousin Lady Jane Grey as heir to the throne. Supported by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer, Lady Jane ruled for only 9 days before Mary who had won the support of London took the throne. She was not going to let her one and only chance to rule pass her by.
So what made people want Mary and not Queen Jane? Well, it was actually blood. They wanted Henry VIII's blood and that was Mary's slogan: I'm Henry VIII's daughter, Jane isn't. And the interesting thing is that Mary did not mention religion. She didn't say a thing about religion and that was quite deliberate and quite clever, because she was being supported now by Protestants as well as Catholics. Both sides rallied to that sort of Stalin-like memory of Henry, the power of the old king. And that's what got her to London in, under a fortnight.
In July 1553, Mary Tudor was 37 years old when she was crowned Queen of all England at Westminster Abby. She was determined to restore the Catholic allegiance and to punish those who’d made her last 25 years a misery. The same year she cemented her ties to Catholic Europe in a marriage of alliance with King Philip II of Spain.
Philip must have been a little crestfallen, shall we say, at the thought of marrying Mary, she was older; she was notoriously not much fun. She marries at the age of 37, she is an old maid by that time and I think that screwed her up quite considerably as well.
For the protestant nobility, it was hard to accept a female Catholic Queen but impossible to accept a foreign Catholic King. Within months of taking the throne, a large scale Protestant rebellion was crushed by Mary. She decided to show her enemies how swift her Catholic justice would be.
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Stalin: 斯大林(Joseph Stalin,1879-1953,前苏联政治家列宁的继承人,曾担任前苏联共产党总书记[1922-1953],苏联总理[1941-1953])
allegiance : Your allegiance is your support for and loyalty to a particular group, person, or belief.
cement: Something that cements a relationship or agreement makes it stronger.
crestfallen: If you look crestfallen, you look sad and disappointed about something.
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