Religion, Humanism, And Art Part 2

Question 1

Which office of state was particularly monopolised by churchmen?

Answer 1

Chancellor

Question 2

Out of the 27 bishops H7 apptd, how many had degrees in law and not theology?

Answer 2

16

Question 3

Where did Humanism originate?

Answer 3

Florence

Question 4

Between 1460-1509 how many new grammar schools were founded?

Answer 4

53

Question 5

Which 2 school types provided educational opportunities for the young?

Answer 5

1) song schools

2) reading schools

Question 6

In which decade saw the beginning of the humanistic approach in schools?

Answer 6

1480s

Question 7

Which school was the humanist approach considered most important?

Answer 7

Magdalene College school, oxford

Question 8

Which uni saw a substantial expansion in the first half of h7’s reign?

Answer 8

Ox

Question 9

In the latter half of his reign, who had several new colleges, mostly thanks to the generosity of Margaret Beaufort?

Answer 9

Camb

Question 10

Name 2 colleges which were founded in Camb

Answer 10

1) Christ’s College

2) St John’s College

Question 11

What were the most famous dramas?

Answer 11

The mystery dramas at the feasts of Corpus Christi

Performed by the guilds of towns like York and Lincoln

Question 12

In music, single line chants were superseded by? Where were these heard?

Answer 12

Polyphonic choral chants (think church acapella) heard in cathedrals and churches

Question 13

What was the most important source for polyphonic choral chants?

Answer 13

The Eton Choir Book (1504)

Had a collection of 93 compositions

Question 14

The 2 most important composers represented in the Eton Choir book had CLOSE LINKS with H7’s pol est, and their names were…

Answer 14

1) Thomas Browne- employed in JT’s household

2) Robert Fairfax- regularly benefitted from H7 and MB’s patronage

Question 15

Where was music often performed?

Answer 15

From the minstrels gallery at court and in the houses of the rich

Question 16

Name 2 common instruments used in this era

Answer 16

1) trumpets

2) shawms

Question 17

What 2 musical groups often entertained crowds on saints days?

Answer 17

1) bagpipe

2) wind groups

Question 18

Which 2 composers also composed popular secular songs?

Answer 18

Thomas Browne and Robert Fairfax

Question 19

Vast number of parish churches were built and rebuilt in what style

Answer 19

Gothic perpendicular

Question 20

2 examples of churches renovated in the gothic perpendicular style

Answer 20

• St Mary Redcliffe (Bristol)

- major wool churches in East Anglia, ex: Lavenham- benefitted from money made by cloth trade

Question 21

In which year did H7 approve the GP style for the Lady chapel in WA?\

Answer 21

1507

Question 22

When did William Caxton establish his printing press?

Answer 22

1477

Question 23

An example of a musical piece allegedly conducted by H8

Answer 23

“2 compositions for recorders” (1540)

Question 24

What was the most important and favoured popular art form?

Answer 24

Drama

Question 25

Which 2 church positions had Margaret Beaufort’s uncle occupied?

Answer 25

1) cardinal | 2) BoWinchester

Question 26

How many guilds did the rural parish of Salle, Norfolk have?

Answer 26

7

Question 27

Which town paid for the expensive project of building a spire on the parish church?

Answer 27

Louth, Lincolnshire

Question 28

What percentage of adult males were monks in 1500

Answer 28

1%

Question 29

How many monastic communities were there?

Answer 29

900

Question 30

Name 3 monastic houses

Answer 30

1) Benedictines 2) Carthusians 3) Cistercians

Question 31

Name the 3 main friar orders

Answer 31

1) Franciscans 2) Dominicans 3) Augustinians

Question 32

Name the one example that is an exception to the common nunnery

Answer 32

Bridgettine Foundation, Syon, Isleworth

Question 33

How many ordained clergy were there in H7’s reign

Answer 33

35k

Question 34

How many monks and nuns were there?

Answer 34

10k

Question 35

How many parish churches were there?

Answer 35

8k

Question 36

How many bishops were under the ABs?

Answer 36

17

Question 37

The BoDurham was the most powerful and wealthy _____ in his diocese

Answer 37

Feudal lord

Question 38

Define rogation

Answer 38

Where one would travel around the parameters of one’s parish and pray for its protection

Question 39

Define intercession

Answer 39

Priests praying on behalf of the dead- usually in exchange for money

Question 40

7 ways to balance sins

Answer 40

1) confession and penance 2) holy relics 3) donations 4) rogation 5) prayers for the dead 6) intercession 7) indulgences

Question 41

Who founded the Lollards?

Answer 41

John Wycliffe

Question 42

Who began to teach Greek at Oxford?

Answer 42

William Grocyn

Question 43

How many new endowed schools, many influenced by humanism, were set up?

Answer 43

100

Question 44

Which humanist tutored H8?

Answer 44

John Skelton

Question 45

Who was commissioned to write a history of England?

Answer 45

Polydore Vergil

Question 46

Who was employed to write enthusiastically about England under H7?

Answer 46

John Skelton

Question 47

When did Desiderius Erasmus teach at Oxford?

Answer 47

1504-6

Question 48

Name 2 of Desiderius Erasmus’ works

Answer 48

1) “In Praise of Folly” (1511) | 2) “Handbook of a Christian Knight” (1501)- published in England in 1533 by William Tyndale

Question 49

By whom was the printing press invented and when?

Answer 49

Johannes Gutenberg, c.1440s

Question 50

In which year does H7 create the post of King’s Printer

Answer 50

1504

Question 51

Name 2 popular stories printed?

Answer 51

1) Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales | 2) Thomas Malory’s King Arthur

Question 52

Which Pope established the precedent that it was the King, and NOT the Papacy, who controlled CoE?

Answer 52

Pope Martin 5 (1417-31)

Question 53

In what year did H7 try to curb the BoC, and how?

Answer 53

1488 | By not giving automatic immunity to clerks from the secular courts

Question 54

From which psalm did clerks from secular clerks recite the first verse to prove their literacy?

Answer 54

Psalm 51

Question 55

What did the first verse of Psalm 51 become known as?

Answer 55

The “neck” verse

Question 56

What 2 things did the 1489 parlt pass to curb BoC abuses?

Answer 56

1) decreed that non-clergymen, if literate, should only be allowed to plead BoC once 2) those who pleaded BoC, but couldn’t prove their literacy, were branded on the thumb with an “M”- this disqualified them from pleading BoC in the future

Question 57

What 2 medieval religious practices did H7 also challenge?

Answer 57

1) privilege of sanctuary | 2) oath of abjuration

Question 58

H7 founded 2 observant Franciscan houses in?

Answer 58

1) Greenwich (1482) | 2) Richmond (1500)

Question 59

In 1489, the Lollards described the Pope as an?

Answer 59

“Old whore”

Question 60

Expenditure on church worship and prayers for the dead reached record levels of...

Answer 60

C. 1.5k pounds

Question 61

In his will, H7 requested that how many masses be said for his soul?

Answer 61

10k