{"id":25406,"date":"2024-12-18T11:45:30","date_gmt":"2024-12-18T11:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=25406"},"modified":"2024-12-19T08:27:27","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T08:27:27","slug":"history-religion-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=25406","title":{"rendered":"HiSTORY\/RELiGiON\/POLiTiCS: John Lambert,"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/img_2020-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25405\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/img_2020-1.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/img_2020-1-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Teresa was watching <em>Wolfe Hall, The Mirror &amp; The Light<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This got me interested in learning more about John Lambert &#8211; who is depicted in the episode we saw today &#8211; and that lead me to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apuritansmind.com\/the-reformation\/memoirs-of-the-reformers\/memoirs-of-the-reformers-john-lambert\/\">this post<\/a>, on a blog called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apuritansmind.com\/mcmahon-biography-and-curriculum-vitae\/\">apuritansmind<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lambert appears to have been one of those \u2018simple souls\u2019 that combine a fierce native intelligence (albeit of a very limited parochial sort) with an ornery conscience. The kind who dares speak their mind, and may even be willing to die for their beliefs, or \u2018Faith\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the context of the febrile politics of Henry \u2018Mad Butcher\u2019 VIII\u2019s Reformation period, such independent thinking, allied with sufficient conviction to stand by one\u2019s beliefs, could and did bring those espousing them to rather nasty ends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reading the admittedly very obviously jaundiced account of a modern day Yankee Puritan makes Lambert\u2019s trial look &#8211; and it most likely was &#8211; like a Nazi or Stalinist show trial. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One is reminded of the pathetic figure of General Field Marshall Erwin von Witzleben (no religious innocent, like Lambert, admittedly), holding up beltless trousers, as Judge Roland Freisler and the assembled Nazi jackals jeer at and mock him. Truly awful!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/img_2044-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25409\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/img_2044-1.jpg 400w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/img_2044-1-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/img_2044-1-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/img_2044-1-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Worldly wit over Piety.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>But, as Bl\u2019Adder wittily remarks, in <em>Ink &amp; Incapability<\/em>, \u2018Sir Thomas More, for instance, burned alive for refusing to recant his Catholicism, must have been kicking himself, as the flames* licked higher.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>*Actually beheaded, not burned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teresa was watching Wolfe Hall, The Mirror &amp; The Light. This got me interested in learning more about John Lambert &#8211; who is depicted in the episode we saw today &#8211; and that lead me to this post, on a blog called apuritansmind. Lambert appears to have been one of those \u2018simple souls\u2019 that combine &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=25406\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;HiSTORY\/RELiGiON\/POLiTiCS: John Lambert,&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-6BM","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25406"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25406"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25431,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25406\/revisions\/25431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}