A Flashcards
What is meant by personal monarchy?
Personal choices of the monarch decide the direction of the government
What are the types of influences?
formal: privy council and the parliament
informal: the court, privy chamber and groom of the stool
What was the divine right of Kings?
belief that a monarch’s authority came from God
What were subsidies?
‘extraordinary revenue’, to pay the costs of government/household that weren’t covered by ‘ordinary revenue’
What were the parliamentary privileges?
the rights of parliament members such as protection against arrests and freedom of speech
What was the Royal Prerogative?
power of the king to make decisions that were beyond the competence of the parliament (dissolve parliament, declare war, form and break alliances)
What was the thing that kick started the process of Reformation in England?
Henry VIII wanted to divorce his wife, Catherine of Aragon but that meant rejecting the authority of the Pope, thus he joined the Protestant cmap
Most significant differences between Protestantism and Catholicism?
the Pope doesn’t have much authority, only two sacraments instead of seven, ministers are preachers and could marry, bible and services in English, plain buildings
How did Elizabeth I compromise to create the Anglican Church in 1559?
both Protestant and Catholic aspects, a balance between the two. Monarch rules while it’s a governor not the head.
Only Holy Scripture needed for Salvation, all in English but it was open to interpretation
Ministers can marry but wear vestments
How did Arminians oppose the Anglican church?
pressure for more ceremony - “beauty of holiness”
How did Puritans oppose the Anglican Church?
pressure for more reformation
What was James I’s religious background?
raised by Presbyterians (radical Scottish Protestantism), his mother and wife were both Catholics, hedonistic, no challenges to his divine right
