How to Survive a Tudor King (A Case Study in Almost Getting It Right)

Thomas Cranmer spent twenty-five years mastering the art of Tudor survival. He was useful, he was careful, he understood exactly how to stay on the right side of the most dangerous king in English history. And it worked, right up until it didn't.

Today we're using Cranmer as the ultimate Tudor survival case study: what the rules were, how he followed them, and why he broke every single one of them at the last possible second, on purpose, in the most dramatic way imaginable.

If you've ever wondered what it actually took to survive the English Reformation, this is the episode for you.

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