Welcome to the History of English Podcast, a podcast about the history of the English

language.

This is Episode 151, Sick to Death.

In this episode, we're going to continue our look at the reign of Henry VIII.

We're also going to revisit a topic that I touched on back in the Anglo-Saxon period,

the issue of sickness and disease.

Several important developments in the treatment of disease took place during Henry's reign,

as the practice of medicine started to move out of the Middle Ages and into the modern era.

Those developments are especially important as it relates to Henry because he was plagued

with injury and illness during the latter part of his reign.

Henry was often sick and tired, and he was also sick and tired of his new wife and

Berlin.

These marital problems were remedied by Anne's execution, followed immediately by yet another

marriage.

But there were no simple solutions to his physical problems, which continued to plague him

throughout this tumultuous period.

So this time, we'll look at those developments, and we'll see how the events of this period

shaped the English language.

But before we begin, let me remind you that the website for the podcast is historyofenglishpodcast.com,

and you can sign up to support the podcast and get bonus episodes at patreon.com slash

historyofenglish.

Now I concluded the last episode with the deaths of Thomas Moore and William Tindale.

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