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
2
Q
what do you do if you ‘recant’
A
give up your religion and adopt the chosen religion of the monarch
3
Q
what was burning at the stake believed to do?
A
if the body burned it would allow the soul to be free and ascend to heaven
4
Q
who was the most cruel with charging heresy?
A
Mary I
5
Q
how many heretics did Mary I excecute?
A
280
6
Q
who was rawlins white?
A
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
7
Q
who was Richard gwyn
A
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
