Church- State Relations Before 1529

Question 1

(Harmony) HVII’s coronation

Answer 1

Happened in a church to improve legitimacy

Question 2

(Harmony) church’s influence on behaviour

Answer 2

Able to influence people into behaving by telling them that it gets them into heaven.

Also run services, festivals and provides alms

Question 3

(Harmony) access to scripture

Answer 3

Unable to access scripture because it is in Latin so the church is able to control what people hear

Question 4

(Fractious) Humanist criticisms of the catholic church

Answer 4

The church was corrupt, it exploited peoples’ fear of hell through indulgences which is unbiblical

Question 5

(Fractious) how did the Richard Hunne case promote anticlericalism?

Answer 5

The church’s decision to charge him with heresy as well as his death under mysterious circumstances made the church seem corrupt

Question 6

(Fractious) Right of sanctuary

Answer 6

Could be abused which undermines law and order eg HVII overode it to arrest Humphrey Stafford

Question 7

(Fractious) benefit of clergy

Answer 7

Correctly reciting psalms 51= a lighter sentence (undermines law and order)

Question 8

(Harmony) HVIII being a ‘loyal’ Catholic

Answer 8

He wrote a defence of the 7 sacraments or Assertio Septum Sacramentorum which attacked Luther

Question 9

(Harmony) appointments to the church (give an example)

Answer 9

Although the pope had the final say, they often went along with what the monarch wanted eg HVIII had John Morton appointed as Archbishop of Canterbury