Heresy: early modern period Flashcards

1
Q

what is a heretic?

A

a person who refuses to change over to the religion of the country

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what do you do if you ‘recant’

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give up your religion and adopt the chosen religion of the monarch

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what was burning at the stake believed to do?

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if the body burned it would allow the soul to be free and ascend to heaven

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4
Q

who was the most cruel with charging heresy?

A

Mary I

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5
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how many heretics did Mary I excecute?

A

280

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Q

who was rawlins white?

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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

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who was Richard gwyn

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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

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