Heresy: early modern period Flashcards
what is a heretic?
a person who refuses to change over to the religion of the country
what do you do if you ‘recant’
give up your religion and adopt the chosen religion of the monarch
what was burning at the stake believed to do?
if the body burned it would allow the soul to be free and ascend to heaven
who was the most cruel with charging heresy?
Mary I
how many heretics did Mary I excecute?
280
who was rawlins white?
a cardiff protestant fisherman who refused to recant to catholicism under the reign of Mary I and was burnt at the stake in cardiff in 1555
who was Richard gwyn
a catholic who refused to recant to protestantism under the reign of Elizabeth the I he was a schoolteacher in wrexham and was exceuted in 1584