Religion, Ideas And Reform Flashcards
Who was the most significant humanist in English education?
John Colet
What did Colet refind?
St Paul’s School
What type of educational principles did the humanist St Paul’s School follow?
Platonist
Why did More support Erasmus in 1518?
Controversy of the Greek New Testament
In what 4 ways did Renaissance ideas influence English culture?
- Knowledge of classical learning
- Growing amount of humanist schools
- Henry VIII saw himself as a promoter of humanism
- The Crown needed well-educated diplomats to communicate with other countries
Who was the most important humanist writer in England?
Thomas More
Where we the Renaissance style tombs of his parents and grandparents situated?
Lady Chapel of Westminster
Where were the most dominant painters in Henry’s court from?
The ‘northern Renaissance’
Where was classical influence clearly exhibited by Wolsey?
Hampton Court, his palace
Henry and Wolsey were generous patrons of music and musicians. True or false.
True
Church music in the Chapel Royal was Flemish, which was a distinctive influence from the Renaissance. True or false.
True
How was the Church corrupt? Who was an example of being corrupt?
Pluralism (receiving more than one post), simony (purchase of Church office) and non-residence (not performing duties although receiving a post). An example is Cardinal Wolsey.
What was a political and social weakness of the Church?
Anticlericalism
Why was the death of Richard Hunne seen with criticism?
Clerical misconduct
How many religious houses were dissolved in the 1520s?
20
What was a weakness of the Church that happened with ease and speed?
The decline of monasticism
What was evidence of a substantial movement towards Protestantism? When did it start?
Martin Luther’s attack of the Church in 1517
What was evidenced to have survived in the 1520s?
Lollardy
Who were leading figures in early Protestantism?
Archbishop Cranmer, Thomas Bilney and Robert Barnes
What was taught to Henry’s children and Katherine Parr?
Humanism
How did Henry become the Supreme Head of the Church?
The Act of Supremacy
When did Henry appointment Cromwell as Vicegerent in Spirituals?
1534
How many dioceses were created? And how many were abolished?
6 created, 1 abolished
How did Cromwell find out how wealthy the Church was in 1535?
A survey (named Valor Ecclesiasticus)
How many visitors went to find evidence of weaknesses of the monasteries?
4
What was established so that Cromwell could dissolve smaller monasteries?
The Act of Parliament 1536
What event caused the dissolution of more monasteries?
The Pilgrimage of Grace
Which year was the Act of Parliament made to dissolve remaining monasteries?
1539
When were all religious houses dissolved?
March 1540
What made the requirement of an English Bible in every parish church?
The injunctions of 1538
When did the first edition of the Great Bible appear?
1539
What restricted the public reading of the Great Bible by upper class males? Who wanted this?
The Act for the Advancement of True Religion of 1543, Henry VIII wanted this.
What did the the 1536 Ten Articles get influenced from and what did it do?
Catholicism. It only saw baptism, penance and the Eucharist necessary for salvation and praised Confession
What restored the four sacraments omitted from the 1536 Ten Articles?
The 1537 Bishops’ Book
What did the 1539 Six Articles Act propose?
Reassert Catholic doctrine and deemed the denial of Transubstantiation as heretical
What revised the Bishops’ Book?
The 1543 King’s Book
