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HENRY VIII, THE PIONEER OF CHANGE

Nikola Stanojčid, I -1; Opšta gimnazija ''Milutin Milankovid'', Beograd

Mentor: Mirjana Marid, mentor pri Regionalnom Centru za Talente Beograd II

SUMMARY

Henry the eighth, the second monarch of the House of Tudor, is known as one of the most
famous figures of renaissance England. An educated, accomplished and charismatic ruler,
Henry ruled England for 38 years, during which England went through an intense period
of growth and reform. Old bonds and alliances were shattered, new ones were made, the
old ways were pushed aside to make way for the new ones. Though by many opinions,
Henry's daughter, Elizabeth I, is regarded as the main reformer of England in the XVI
century, her reign would have been without much of its luster, were it not for her father's
doings. Henry's reign, although somewhat less impressionable politically than Elizabeth's,
was in fact the prelude to the new age of British superiority. His reforms changed England
in such a radical way that it formed the basis for the world's future most powerful
superpower, the British Empire. The purpose of this work is to give further insight into all
the noteworthy changes Henry's reign brought to England and how they affected England
for years to come, with personal opinions included about the grand deeds done in that
time.

KLJUČNE REČI: Henri VIII, promena, Kardinal Vulzi, Tomas Kromvel, reformacija,
renesansa

REZIME

Henri osmi, drugi vladar dinastije Tjudora, je jedan od najpoznatijih figura renesansne
Englaske. Obrazovani, priznati i harizmatiĉni vladar. Henri je vladao Engleskom 38
godina, za ĉije vreme je Engleska prošla kroz intenzivan period razvoja i reforme. Stare
veze i savezi su bili raskinuti, novi su sklopljeni, stari obiĉaji su odgurnuti u stranu zarad
novih. Iako po mišljenju mnogih, Henrijeva kćerka, Elizabeta prva, je priznata kao glavni
reformator Engleske u XVI verku, njena vladavina bi bila sa mnogo manje glamura da njie
bilo njenog oca. Henrijeva vladavina, iako ponešto manje politiĉki uticajna od Elizabetine,
je u stvari bila uvertira novom dobu Britanske superiornosti. Njegove reforme su
promenile Englesku na toliko radikalan naĉin, da su postavile temelj jednoj of
najmoćnijih svetskih supersila, Britanskom carstvu. Cilj ovog rada je da se baci novi
pogled na sve znaĉajne promene koje je Henrijeva vladavina donela Engleskoj, i kako su
one uticale na nju godinama kasnija, sa iskazivanjem liĉnih mišljenja o velikim delima
poĉinjenim u to vreme.

KEY WORDS: Henry VIII, change, Cardinal Wolsey, Thomas Cromwell, reformation,
renaissance