Mary - Religion Flashcards
What does Christopher Haigh argue?
Most people still Catholic who disliked 1552 Prayer Book, records show people seemed happy to pay for reequipping of churches
Why would Mary have struggled to reestablish Catholicism?
In Law, Protestant Church was official Church
Protestantism grown popular in Essex, Kent
Many politicians did not want to give monastic land up
What did Mary want to bring back?
Heresy laws, monasteries, Catholic Church
How did MP’s bargain with Mary?
Vote for Catholic Church and heresy laws if she let them keep their land
What did the Pope give the MP’s and what did this result in?
Papal dispensation
Heresy Laws and Pope as Head of Church in 1555
How many Protestant burned at stake during her reign?
289
Where were Protestant stake victims from?
75% South East England, East Anglia
How effective was Mary?
Little time in power, would have had been effective with more time
Burning did not remove Protestantism
Public sympathy for victims, backfired for Mary
What did Reginald Pole do for Catholicism?
Improved recruitment and training of priests, proposal for seminary attached to each cathedral
When and what was first statute of repeal?
1553 - nullified all religious legislation passed under previous monarch
What did Mary want to restore?
Papal supremacy, Pope and Head of Church
