BBC英国史六Burning Convictions 燃烧的罪恶.docx

1、BBC英国史六Burning Convictions 燃烧的罪恶第06章：Burning Convictions 饶绍的罪恶（15001558）亨利想从罗马教皇分离，声称自己就是英国的教皇。这导致了英国的改革。在那几十年里英国的天主教被抛弃。1536 和1538年10000名僧侣被uprooting。修道院分解，他们的财产被重新分配。 伊丽莎白成功的策划了宗教的政变。英语字幕文本：There are ghosts in this place.You dont notice them right away.At first glance, Binham Priory in Norfolk loo

2、ks much like any other English country church - plain and simple, limestone,limewash.Nothing fancy, really.But then you look around and realise something else is going on here.That grandiose, timber-vaulted roof.Those multi-storey arcades.Arent they all just a bit too big for a parish church?And the

3、n you start to fill in the gaps, and bit by bit a lost world remakes itself, a world of monks and masses, of colour andplainsong.A world of brilliant images.The world of Catholic England.For centuries, this didnt sound strained.Catholic England was just another way of saying Christian England, reall

4、y.And then, in a generation, it stopped being a truism and started being treason.Images of the Virgin, the apostles and the saints once cherished and glorified, were now mocked andvandalised.Here at Binham, the saints on the rood screen were expunged, painted over with verses from an English Bible.T

5、oday, theyre restored, but the world over which they once presided is dead and gone.We cant bring back the lost world of Binhams painted saints whole and alive again.But just because the death of that world was so shocking, so utterly improbable, and because the Reformation and the wars of religion

6、it triggered cut so deep a mark on the body of our country, we need to try and reassemble the fragments of that world as best we can.Only then can we hope to answer one of the most poignant questions in our history: Whatever did happen to Catholic England?We all grew up, even a nice Jewish boy like

7、me, with the idea that the English Reformation was a historic inevitability, the culling of an obsolete, unpopular, fundamentally un-English faith.But on the very eve of the Reformation, Catholicism in England was vibrant, popular and very much alive.This is Walsingham in Norfolk, once the home of t

8、he miracle working shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham.Along with the Becket shrine at Canterbury, Walsingham was the must-see place for all serious 16th-century pilgrims, a tradition revived this century by High Church Anglicans.Today, you get only the faintest echoes of what Walsingham once was, a ga

9、udy, rowdy mix ofhucksterismand holiness, piety and plaster saints;the kind of place youd expect to find, say, in Naples or Seville, not in the depths of sober East Anglia.But even then, as today, not everybody approved.Erasmus, the Catholic scholar superstar of the age, came here on a mock pilgrima

10、ge and poured scorn on tales of sacred milk and chapels airmailed in from the Holy Land.But his was the minority intellectual view, safely expressed in Latin and tolerated, though not necessarily endorsed, by members of the ruling Tudor dynasty.The Tudors were regular and devout pilgrims.Henry VIII,

11、 early in his reign, walked barefoot to the shrine, offering a necklace of rubies and dedicating a giant candle in thanks for the birth of his son, Henry, in 1511.Prince Henry died within weeks, but the kings candle continued to burn at the shrine for many years to come.What a strange world this Cat

12、holic England was.The urge for renewal and reform side by side with the ancient, the hallowed and the occasionally fraudulent.But it seems that all apparent contradictions could be accommodated under the capacious skirts of the Catholic Mother Church.And what a mother she was! Come to Holy Trinity C

13、hurch at Long Melford in Suffolk, and youll see just what I mean.This magnificent building was paid for with Suffolk wool money.However, what you see today are just the bare bones of what it was supposed to be.But we know what Long Melford in its splendour was really like thanks to an account left b

14、y Roger Martyn, whod been a churchwarden here in the reign of Englands last Catholic ruler, Queen Mary.Writing in the very different times of Queen Elizabeth, Roger Martyn, with a mixture of pride and regret, set out to tell future generations exactly what they were missing.At the back of the high a

15、ltar there was a goodly mount carved very artificially with the story of Christs Passion, all being fair, gilt and lively and beautifully set forth.And at the north end of the same altar there was a goodly gilttabernaclereaching up to the roof of the chancel, in which there was one fair, large, gilt

16、 image of the Holy Trinity, besides other fine images.But Martyns church was more than just a building.He describes a living world of processions and festivals, ceremonies and rituals involving the whole community.Above all this presided the management, without whom none of it made sense.The priests, guardians of the mystery, at the heart of traditional Christian belief.Eve