Latest / Saberian History Lectures / English Nation Briton to Elizabeth
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- 0:00All right, wires on. Okay, so the concept of
- 0:02the super date is I may not know the exact date
- 0:06of a thing, but I know it's before or after this
- 0:09thing that I really know where it is. So think
- 0:12of it as a landmark in time. So if you're giving
- 0:14someone directions and you want to give someone
- 0:18directions to, say, the Resolute Hospital, where
- 0:23do they turn off on the highway to go to Resolute?
- 0:27If I'm driving on I -35 and I need to go to the
- 0:29Resolute Hospital, I turn over by where? By Buc
- 0:33-ee's. Everybody can see the Buc -ee's, right?
- 0:35You know the Buc -ee's, right? 1492 is the Buc
- 0:40-ee's of our history class. Does that make sense?
- 0:44Okay, so you need to know what happened in 1492
- 0:46because it's a super day, right? Okay, what happened?
- 0:50Columbus lands at Hispaniola and in the Bahamas.
- 0:56In the Bahamas. All right, so that's Columbus.
- 1:00By the way, when does he do it? What month? Do
- 1:02you remember? We have a day for it. When's our
- 1:04day off? We literally went through the calendar.
- 1:10What's that funky day off we have before the
- 1:12PSAT? When's the PSAT? October. So he lands in
- 1:18October, right? By the way, if you can relate
- 1:21it to something in your life, okay, Columbus
- 1:22lands October of 1492. By the way, is October
- 1:25early in the year or late? Late. By the way,
- 1:29there's a whole lot of stuff that happens in
- 1:311492, not just Columbus landing. We're going
- 1:33to get to that in a moment. And then the next
- 1:35big super date that we're going to talk about
- 1:36is 1607. That's okay. You're going to have it
- 1:47now, and it's really important. Jamestown. All
- 1:51right. Why is Jamestown important? Jamestown
- 1:54is the first English settlement in the New World.
- 2:01They find Virginia, but they settle in Jamestown.
- 2:04Okay, do some math. How long of a time span is
- 2:08this? Okay. Round up. 1492 to 1500 is eight years.
- 2:18I'm not caring about the digits. We're talking
- 2:20a little more than 100 years, right? Okay. 100
- 2:23years, it's a bit. Not much in terms of geologic
- 2:27time, but it's a bit, right? So there's some
- 2:29stuff that occurs before 1492 we need to talk
- 2:32about, and there's some stuff that occurs after
- 2:341492 that we're going to talk about, and we're
- 2:37not going to talk about anything after 1607 for
- 2:39this one. Everybody good? Yes. Okay. If we get
- 2:41to 1607, I'll count it a miracle. All right.
- 2:46so I have a construction and This is one of the
- 2:50joys of taking a college course you get to deal
- 2:52with some really abstract weird thoughtful stuff
- 2:55And so the first thing I want you to consider
- 2:58because we're going to look at the rise of different
- 3:01Colonial powers, but before they can become colonial
- 3:04powers they have to become nation -states Now,
- 3:09this is really awkward because a lot of people
- 3:11don't think of nationalism until later. So there's
- 3:13this period where they go from being feudal warlords
- 3:18killing each other to being cogent and coherent
- 3:19countries that are capable of colonizing. So
- 3:24when you're in a country, you have identities.
- 3:31An identity is how we define ourself. Okay? So,
- 3:40these different countries define themselves based
- 3:44on their religious identity. In other words,
- 3:48I understand myself based on my religious practice.
- 3:51They might do it based on a national identity.
- 3:54Now, this is really weird for us because Americans...
- 3:57Okay, I know we say Pledge of Allegiance, One
- 3:59Nation Under God. I have horrible news for you.
- 4:01We're not a nation. Not in the traditional sense.
- 4:06Because a nation... is a birth group. Let me
- 4:11say that again. A nation is a birth group. The
- 4:14word national, natal, nativity, has to do with
- 4:20birth. The word nation actually is closer to
- 4:23the word we use for ethnicity. Is anyone ethnically
- 4:28American? No, you're not genetically American.
- 4:33You can't 23andMe yourself and get 100 % American.
- 4:36You get what I'm saying? Whereas if you do 23andMe,
- 4:39they're going to say you're Irish, you're Dutch,
- 4:41you're Arab. You get what I'm saying? But you
- 4:44can't 23andMe yourself into being American. Okay?
- 4:48And that's why nationality really messes us up.
- 4:54But the nation is the birth group. It's the people
- 4:57that you share language. and that you historically
- 5:00identify with, in that regard, we're a constructed
- 5:03nation, because we identify with people that
- 5:06most of us are not genetically related to. Most
- 5:09of us are not genetically related to the people
- 5:11at Plymouth Rock. Most of us are not genetically
- 5:15related to the people who signed the Declaration
- 5:17of Independence. And actually, most of us aren't
- 5:20even related to the people who fought in the
- 5:22Civil War, because most of the people who fought
- 5:24in the Civil War killed each other, and then
- 5:25a new bunch of immigrants showed up. And yet
- 5:30we identify with this nation as a matter of construction.
- 5:33Okay, the third is a political identity, and
- 5:36this is similar to it. This is the people we
- 5:38will follow, that we will obey, and that we will
- 5:40die for. Okay? So, let's start with the first
- 5:52one. Before we talk about England, we have to
- 5:55talk about Spain. Now, What did we call when
- 6:03the Spanish houses of Aragon, Castile, León,
- 6:08and Portugal drove out the Muslims? What did
- 6:11they call it? Starts with an R. The Reconquista.
- 6:17Now, this is where we get to the idea of a constructed
- 6:20identity. Reconquista. What's weird about Reconquista?
- 6:31Re means what? If I reread, what am I reading?
- 6:38I'm reading not the first time, I'm reading what?
- 6:41Again. So if I return, I'm coming back a second
- 6:45time. So a Reconquista is conquering not for
- 6:51the first time, conquering again. But that's
- 6:56weird because... Spain is a new country. How
- 7:00can you conquer again if you're a new country?
- 7:04Because the Spanish don't see themselves as a
- 7:09new country. So you need to consider what does
- 7:15it mean to be Spanish? Because at this point
- 7:20in 1492, being Spanish is new. Nowadays, how
- 7:25old is being Spanish? Quite a few centuries,
- 7:30yes? We've had Spanish spoken on this continent
- 7:34for like 500 years. Okay, so what does it mean
- 7:39to be Spanish? Here's what it means to be Spanish.
- 7:42You are not Muslim. You can't be Spanish and
- 7:46be Muslim. You have to be Catholic. Now, Spanish
- 7:49is a hybridized language. of latin and arabic
- 7:53and so the spanish have decided we are going
- 7:56to be latin we are going to be christian we are
- 7:59not going to be those people we are going and
- 8:02why are we doing it because deus volt god wills
- 8:06it you also have to recognize that the reconquista
- 8:10is going on shortly after the crusades so while
- 8:16the catholic warlords are shouting deus volt
- 8:21What are the Muslims shouting back? Allah Akbar.
- 8:26God is great. So you have, by the way, is religious
- 8:30fanaticism useful when you have to go kill people?
- 8:34Very, because if you're going to kill people,
- 8:36you need an absolute certainty that it's justified.
- 8:40And what is more certain than killing for God?
- 8:43Yes? Now, we're not a violent people, so it's
- 8:46very hard for us to wrap our minds around such
- 8:48conviction. So, the Catholics drive the Muslims
- 8:54out. The last Muslim caliphate they drive out
- 8:56is the Caliphate of Granada. Shortly after that,
- 9:00Ferdinand and Isabella get married and they unify
- 9:06the two kingdoms of Aragon and Castile and they
- 9:09give it a name. Now, remember, you're identifying
- 9:12as Roman. You're identifying as... So when they
- 9:17make the new country of their combined lands,
- 9:21they hearken back to the province's old Roman
- 9:27name. The old Roman name for the Iberian Peninsula
- 9:32was Hispania. Let me say that again. The old
- 9:38Roman province was called Hispania. Now do you
- 9:40understand how it's a reconquest? We're taking
- 9:43it back from the Muslims and we're making Spain
- 9:48Roman again. By the way, do we still use the
- 9:51word Hispania? Well, where do we get the word
- 9:54Hispanic from? Okay, but Spain as a country is
- 9:59a constructed identity, but it's a constructed
- 10:01identity that goes back to a Roman root. Does
- 10:05that make sense? So same year, Isabella goes,
- 10:10sends Columbus to the new world. Now, the other
- 10:16thing, remember, the entire Spanish national
- 10:18identity is we're fighting for God. God wills
- 10:21it. And by the way, we're not Muslims. So we
- 10:24have to drive out the infidels. We have to subdue
- 10:26the infidels. By the way, just because you took
- 10:28over the island, if you're a war machine, you're
- 10:29going to stop. So what do you do? You go conquer
- 10:34somewhere else. Well, guess what Columbus found
- 10:37for them? Somewhere else. And so now you have
- 10:42these conquistadors with the arquebuses, with
- 10:44their weapons of steel. Now they're going to
- 10:46Hispaniola. They're going to Cuba. They're going
- 10:50to Veracruz. They're going to Tenochtitlan. That
- 10:53same warrior ethos. Because if you're the second
- 10:56son, you don't get a farm. You have to go conquer
- 10:58one. Does that make sense? It's not just crass,
- 11:03oh, we're doing it for gold. It's not just a
- 11:05religious conceit. No, these people, they have
- 11:07been hardwired. If you are a Spanish conquistador,
- 11:10you have been raised from the time you were 12
- 11:13to fight, to ride, and to kill. That is your
- 11:19profession. That is your vocation. That is your
- 11:21calling. And that is what everybody encouraged
- 11:23you to be. It's kind of like how many of you
- 11:25have watched these people? It's what I call dance
- 11:29moms and football dads. Like, they've been doing
- 11:32the thing their whole childhood. Like, you ever
- 11:37seen, like, peewee football where, you know,
- 11:38the parents are really getting into it. They've
- 11:40been raising the kids to tackle each other, and
- 11:42then they're at the big people football games,
- 11:44and they're just... Because that's the only thing
- 11:46the kid knows, right? By the way, when they stop,
- 11:50it's really weird for them, right? How many of
- 11:52you know people who've walked away from a sport
- 11:53that they've been training with as a child? Yeah,
- 11:55it's similar but not identical. All right, moving
- 11:57on. All right. So what's the problem with Portugal?
- 12:00Well, Portugal is all by itself. They didn't
- 12:02join the club. Well, Portugal starts exploring.
- 12:05Spain starts exploring. What could possibly go
- 12:07wrong? They could fight each other. Why would
- 12:12fighting each other be bad? Because unlike, say,
- 12:17countries that are separated by a natural border
- 12:19like a mountain, why would Portugal fighting
- 12:22Spain be really bad on the Iberian Peninsula?
- 12:25Because they're right next to each other. So
- 12:28these two Catholic Latin speaking peoples who
- 12:33decide not to merge together, they need to make
- 12:37a deal. So if you're a deeply religious person
- 12:40who needs to make the deal for you, who speaks
- 12:43for God, the Pope, the great bridge. And so the
- 12:47Pope says, this is the line because God wills
- 12:50it. And because it's the Pope's line, it's a
- 12:52holy demarcation line. And so Portugal goes East
- 12:56colonizing. Well, part of the line includes Brazil.
- 13:02So this is why Brazil speaks Portuguese. But
- 13:04most of the line is Africa and Asia for the Portuguese.
- 13:08And then, of course, the Spanish go west, colonizing
- 13:11the Americas. They actually keep going all the
- 13:13way to the Philippines. Everybody good so far?
- 13:18Okay. Pope separates the world. Now, were there
- 13:23other Catholic countries that had to be part
- 13:24of the deal at this point? France is not on the
- 13:28ocean. England's not on the ocean. Everybody
- 13:31good so far? Okay. Am I good to turn the page?
- 13:37Okay. Oh. DTD. All right. Now, let's talk about
- 13:43England. Now, there are some key things I want
- 13:46you to keep and some other things you don't need
- 13:48to keep. The first two, Rome and Britain, not
- 13:50going to be on the test. Norman invasion is.
- 13:541066, when William the Conqueror lands in England,
- 14:00that's in the middle of the Crusades. That's
- 14:03like just before the Crusades. And it's 400 years
- 14:07before all this. Okay, so here's what you got
- 14:10going on. First, you had Roman Britain. That
- 14:12was when Britain was populated by Celtic speakers.
- 14:16Then the fall of Rome, you have a German invasion
- 14:19where a whole bunch of displaced Viking -Germanic
- 14:23peoples, the Engels, the Saxons, and the Jutes
- 14:25land on the island and basically displace the
- 14:28Celts. So what you actually have is you have
- 14:33German -speaking, Germanic -speaking English
- 14:37people. And so since the Engels were the bulk
- 14:41of the population, what do they now call the
- 14:43place? England. which we now turn into England.
- 14:48Okay? So, you have the Germanic, English. Alright?
- 14:551066, the Normans show up. The Normans are French
- 14:58-speaking Vikings. What this creates in England
- 15:01is a French -speaking nobility. That French -speaking
- 15:07nobility rules over England for over 400 years.
- 15:14So in 1455, the last of the Plantagenet kings
- 15:18dies with no legitimate heir. Why is it bad that
- 15:26the last king dies with no heir in the wonderful
- 15:31world of feudalism and monarchy? What does that
- 15:35create? It creates a power vacuum, which means
- 15:37the major warlords... fight each other for control
- 15:41of the kingdom, and they do so for how long?
- 15:451455 to 1487. That's 32 years. That is literally,
- 15:49y 'all are mostly 16, yes? That is literally
- 15:52twice as long as you people have been on God's
- 15:54earth. Try and imagine growing up in a country
- 15:58that is tearing itself apart for two times your
- 16:01lifetime. If you even make it that long. Because
- 16:03what happens in civil wars? People die. You know
- 16:06who else dies in civil wars? Civilians by starvation.
- 16:10Right? Civil wars are bad. Nobody wins a civil
- 16:14war. By the way, the kill counts are for you.
- 16:16And they're really emotionally awful. Because
- 16:17you know what's really horrible about killing
- 16:19people who you understand what they say? You
- 16:22can understand their screams of agony and terror.
- 16:25It's not like, you know, people that you don't
- 16:27understand where you can kind of dehumanize them
- 16:29and say, oh, I can live with that. No, it really
- 16:32messes people up. Anyway, so after 32 years of
- 16:35killing each other, the lords come together and
- 16:38they make a deal. That's the first dude. That
- 16:40is Henry VII. That is Henry Tudor. He is named
- 16:43king by parliament in 1487. They get the lords
- 16:46together. They take a vote. They say, tag, you're
- 16:48it. Actually, he was from one faction, married
- 16:54into the other one. The alliance is made. The
- 16:57kingdom is cobbled together. Okay. You're the
- 17:00new king. What is your first job you need to
- 17:03do to make sure you have continuity of government?
- 17:08What happened with the last king? Where did the
- 17:10last king fall down on the job? Bro didn't have
- 17:12any what? Errors. Didn't have any errors. By
- 17:14the way, what do you need to have? Why does your
- 17:17heir have to be a man? Say it again. It's a patriarchal
- 17:24society, but it's also a very violent society.
- 17:27Remember, these are warrior kings. Also, ladies,
- 17:30what happens to about one in six women at this
- 17:33point in time is a quotient of... Huh? Not just
- 17:36that. Okay, you get married. You get pregnant.
- 17:40What could possibly happen and happen often in...
- 17:43You die in childbirth. Okay, pregnant, married,
- 17:48die. It's about one in six women die in childbirth,
- 17:51and it's always the first kid. Okay, it's not
- 17:54always the first kid, but it's usually the first
- 17:56kid. Okay? Not like the first kid, like they
- 18:00died trying to do the first kid. You know, trying
- 18:02to give birth. Trying to give birth to the first
- 18:05kid. Okay? Now, one in six, which means, like,
- 18:10you would have someone in your extended family
- 18:13that you knew who died in childbirth. It was
- 18:16that common. Okay? Do you want to risk continuity
- 18:19of society on a one in six shot that somebody
- 18:22that that person dies? No. So the other reason
- 18:26why it's a patriarchal society is, yes, female
- 18:29mortality is high. All right. So. Bro delivers.
- 18:34He has three kids. Good on him. And, you know,
- 18:37congratulations to his wife because she's doing
- 18:40the real work. All right. He's got three kids.
- 18:44These are them at different points in their lives.
- 18:46Good catch. All right, so you're Henry VII. You're
- 18:52putting society back together. You want your
- 18:55son, your firstborn son, he is the chosen one.
- 19:00You want him to bring about a golden age in England.
- 19:04Now, one of the things that you want to do when
- 19:06you're trying to get people to bring about a
- 19:08golden age, you need to give the people a narrative
- 19:11that they can hold on to. So you need to identify
- 19:14with an existing narrative that people can hold
- 19:18on to. Now, who's the great English hero, the
- 19:22little boy who drew the sword from the stone?
- 19:26King Arthur. So what does Henry name his firstborn
- 19:30son? Arthur. The once... and future king of England
- 19:36is Arthur. And so he's trying to get his son,
- 19:39he's trying to get the people to identify his
- 19:41son with that Arthurian legend to reinforce the
- 19:46power. Remember what I said, that's the national
- 19:48identity. So basically he wants his first son
- 19:55to be the British Messiah. Now, it's a great
- 20:00plan. So, He takes his young British messiah.
- 20:08So now I've got domestic control. Now I need
- 20:10allies, right? Who's the dominant political power?
- 20:13We just talked about them. Spain. Spain is the
- 20:16dominant power. So if you're a not -so -great
- 20:20power because you just tore yourself apart for
- 20:2230 years, you want an alliance with the Spanish
- 20:25because they're a great power, and you want to
- 20:27stick it to the French. By the way, can Spanish
- 20:29stick it to the French? Yeah. Okay, so you want
- 20:33to stick it to the French. So, Arthur was betrothed
- 20:39to Catherine of Aragon, who was the daughter
- 20:43of Ferdinand and Isabella. Remember Ferdinand
- 20:45and Isabella? Yeah, they had a son named Phil,
- 20:49and they had a beautiful girl named Catherine.
- 20:51Okay, actually, she wasn't that pretty. Some
- 20:52people called her Catherine the horse face. People
- 20:56be mean. Yeah, mean girls, 15th century edition.
- 21:00Anyway, now, betrothed. Means they arranged the
- 21:05marriage. There's just one problem. So, Henry
- 21:11VII dies. Shortly after that, Arthur dies. But
- 21:20we had a deal. We had a plan. We got to stick
- 21:24it to the French. We have an alliance. What are
- 21:27you going to do? Bro's dead. You're not going
- 21:31to have a Spanish princess. So what do you do?
- 21:34You go back. You got another boy. You swap him
- 21:41out. Replacement player. A spare. You got an
- 21:47heir and a spare. All right. That's Henry VIII,
- 21:50dude in the middle. That's how Henry VIII becomes
- 21:54king of England. He's the second son. He was
- 21:59not the chosen one. He was the spare. Now, they
- 22:04get married. He's in, I want to say, early 20s,
- 22:11late teens. She's his older brother's fiancée.
- 22:20She's older than he is. Now, they have a kid.
- 22:26Mary. Mary's nice. He loves Mary. What's the
- 22:31problem with Mary? Mary's a woman. Now, hang
- 22:36on. So, we're good. We're good. I got years of
- 22:40me. Keep going. Keep going. Right? They try to
- 22:43have another. One child's stillborn. One of them's
- 22:47dead after birth. By the way, what happens to
- 22:49women's ability to conceive children once they
- 22:51get past, oh, I don't know, 30? It diminishes.
- 22:56You don't have fertility treatments. This is
- 22:58primitive times. So what's Henry looking at right
- 23:03now? I have a female child. I don't have an heir.
- 23:08When I die, what happens to my kingdom? It falls
- 23:12apart. It tears itself apart. Is that something
- 23:15he can live with? Is that something the nobles
- 23:18of England can live with? No. So he's like, okay,
- 23:22I'm not able to have any more children with this
- 23:27woman. What do I need? I need a new woman. Okay.
- 23:32It's not just that he was a horny man. There
- 23:39is a legitimate concern about the... And again,
- 23:42he would remember the stories of the War of the
- 23:45Roses. There were people who remember the horrors
- 23:48of that war. That was something to be so assiduously
- 23:51avoided that the nobles of England would do anything.
- 23:53And I do mean anything. Having continuity of
- 23:59government was so important that Henry... We'll
- 24:04leave the Catholic Church. Now again, this is
- 24:06a dimension that you didn't learn back in world
- 24:08history. Henry wasn't just a king. He was also,
- 24:14prior to this, a devout Catholic. Bro wasn't
- 24:23just Catholic. He was the defender of the faith.
- 24:28So in 1517, Martin Luther writes his 95 Theses,
- 24:32speaking out against the conventions of the church.
- 24:35In 1521, Henry VIII, working with Sir Thomas
- 24:39More, writes a book called The Defense of the
- 24:41Seven Sacraments. It is a theological rebuke
- 24:44of Protestantism, for which he is named Defender
- 24:48of the Faith by the Pope in 1521. 1534, England
- 24:56leaves the Catholic Church. So in a space of
- 24:58about a decade, he goes from being the defender
- 25:03of the Catholic Church to being its most notable
- 25:06heretic. And so in 1534, Parliament passes the
- 25:12Act of Succession, separating the church in England
- 25:15from Catholicism and naming the monarch the head
- 25:19of the English church. Now, this is really weird
- 25:21and really cool. So now, are the English actually
- 25:28Protestant? He doesn't change the religious practice.
- 25:35He doesn't change the hierarchy. He makes one
- 25:38change to the religious practice that's really
- 25:40important. So, and this is really strange to
- 25:46us, because I have people in this room who are
- 25:49probably Catholic. And if you go to a Catholic
- 25:52church today, you'll hear the Mass in English
- 25:54and in Spanish in the American Southwest. But
- 25:57if I went to a Catholic church in England in
- 25:59the 16th century, I would hear the Mass in Latin.
- 26:05If I went to a French church, I would hear the
- 26:07Mass in Latin. One of the defining features of
- 26:11this new Church of England is that the prayers
- 26:15are in English. and the language of court is
- 26:20no longer French. The nobles are speaking English.
- 26:23They're practicing the religion in English. So
- 26:25do I really look at this as a religious identity,
- 26:28or is this really the emergence of a national
- 26:31identity? We're now defining ourselves as a separate
- 26:36people. We pray in English. We speak in English.
- 26:40We codify English. And so one of the things that's
- 26:43really cool is because Henry's pulled himself
- 26:46away from the Catholic Church, he has a whole
- 26:48lot of land now that used to be church land that
- 26:50he can sell off, which, by the way, that's great
- 26:53for the English peasants because now they can
- 26:55own their own land. He now has total control
- 27:00of the government because he has religious authority,
- 27:02he has the bureaucracy of the church, and he
- 27:04has the violence of the state. The church and
- 27:07the state are one. The Leviathan is born. Now,
- 27:14he annuls his marriage to Catherine of Aragon.
- 27:20He can't kill her because that would be war with
- 27:22Spain. So he puts her away. She gets a nice castle.
- 27:27Her daughter is raised in the confinement of
- 27:29the castle. Think of it as house arrest. Okay,
- 27:32but it beats being dead. Okay. So, he marries
- 27:36Anne Boleyn and they have another girl. Now,
- 27:40Anne Boleyn is kind of a bit of a sprite. Henry's
- 27:44a bit jealous. She gets charged with adultery.
- 27:48Now, by the way, adultery is bad, but it's really
- 27:50bad when the man you cheat on is the king of
- 27:53the country because it's not just adultery, it's
- 27:56treason. She gets executed. No. Not all of them.
- 28:02That's the first one that gets executed. So,
- 28:04Catherine gets put away and gets executed. So,
- 28:08third time's the charm. He marries Jane Seymour.
- 28:13Jane Seymour. Gives him a son. Yes, she dies
- 28:18in childbirth. Remember how I said one in six
- 28:20women died in childbirth? One in three right
- 28:23now. Rip. So, he has his heir. There's just one
- 28:32problem. Edward dies before having children.
- 28:39So, crap. So, Henry dies. Edward dies. The nobles
- 28:47of England are so terrified of that war of all
- 28:51against all. Guess what they do? Parliament decides
- 28:55that they would rather be ruled by a Catholic
- 29:01woman than have a war of all against all. Okay?
- 29:08Now. Hang on, I got time for this. Okay. Now.
- 29:14Mary, she gets married. She marries Philip, her
- 29:18cousin, who's the king of Spain. They have some
- 29:21very pleasant evenings together. She's got that
- 29:23bright glow. She's looking very round. And they
- 29:28find out it's not a baby, it's a tumor. She dies.
- 29:38Parliament is like, oh, crap. Back to the book,
- 29:43back to the family tree, and tag, she's it. That's
- 29:49how Elizabeth becomes Queen of England. Now,
- 29:52this is where I get to the end. Okay. Elizabeth
- 29:58has a problem. Her first duty is to see to the
- 30:05continuity of government, right? Which means,
- 30:09at first they're like, oh, we need to get her
- 30:10married off and we need to get her to start having
- 30:12kids. What has she seen happen? She heard about
- 30:20Jane Seymour, who was her stepmother, died. She
- 30:26didn't know how cancer worked with her sister,
- 30:29but she saw her sister die. So what's she deathly
- 30:31afraid of? Dying. and that destabilization. So
- 30:35she makes a choice. Also at this time, England
- 30:39is trying to figure out how Catholic they're
- 30:42going to be and how Protestant they're going
- 30:43to be. Who's the most important woman in the
- 30:45Catholic religion? Virgin Mary. The Virgin Mary,
- 30:50Queen of Heaven. Elizabeth decides to become
- 30:55the Virgin Queen of England. appropriating the
- 31:01Marian archetype, becoming the human incarnation
- 31:05of Mary, and now England, the separate, idyllic
- 31:09place. So we go from Arthur, the English Messiah,
- 31:13to Elizabeth, the Virgin Queen of England. And
- 31:19that seems like a good place to stop. She reigns
- 31:21for about 40 years, and I'll get to 1607 and
- 31:25James I next time.