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
