Back in late 2015 and early 2016 I wrote my history thesis and it was on the Martyrs of the Reformation or how the populace of countries ruled over by the hegemony of the Catholic Church were able to gain a vernacular version of the Christian Bible without being declared guilty of heresy and being burned at the stake.
There were many martyrs from the late 14th century through the end of the Thirty Years' War. These martyrs included John Wyclif, Jan Hus, Martin Luther, William Tyndale, Rev. Thomas Cranmer, and so many more.
It was also a period when the Renaissance rode high in European culture, the invention of Gutenberg's printing press, and a Revolution in thinking. It could be said the pre-Enlightenment coincided with the Renaissance and the Reformation.
Thursday, August 1, 2019
Update
It has been nearly a year since my last post and I have been very busy. I have been working hard on my Master's Degree in the Humanities and I'm working on thesis now. I am planning on getting back to my outline and to start writing my first book in the series while I look for work to pay my student loans and to find my own place to live. I also have my youngest daughter's college education to fund.
The United States is very important to me; I love my country and hate to see it being destroyed from within. Life is too precious and our country will never rise again if it falls like the Roman Empire did.
I am writing my Debates of Honor series to remind people of our history; one that is hardly taught in schools anymore. Of course, in today's social and political climate I might get called racist, sexist, or a Nazi. These books are intended to reflect society and people as they were then and not as they are now.
Book One starts with John Blackthorpe and his struggle to come to grips with being his family's patriarch. He also takes on the task of parenting his youngest brother and sister amidst the backdrop of the French and Indian war in the colonies, especially Pennsylvania. He must decide whether to support his cousins in Connecticut and their plans to join the Susquehannah (old spelling) Company and their settlement in the Wyoming Valley or to side with the Penns who are old friends to his family (fictional).
The United States is very important to me; I love my country and hate to see it being destroyed from within. Life is too precious and our country will never rise again if it falls like the Roman Empire did.
I am writing my Debates of Honor series to remind people of our history; one that is hardly taught in schools anymore. Of course, in today's social and political climate I might get called racist, sexist, or a Nazi. These books are intended to reflect society and people as they were then and not as they are now.
Book One starts with John Blackthorpe and his struggle to come to grips with being his family's patriarch. He also takes on the task of parenting his youngest brother and sister amidst the backdrop of the French and Indian war in the colonies, especially Pennsylvania. He must decide whether to support his cousins in Connecticut and their plans to join the Susquehannah (old spelling) Company and their settlement in the Wyoming Valley or to side with the Penns who are old friends to his family (fictional).
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