Religious Changes under HVIII

Question 1

5 ways religion changed

Answer 1

• Supremacy and church organisation
• religious relics and appearance of the church
• doctrine
• monasteries
• belief and culture

Question 2

Supremacy and church organisation

Answer 2

• Act of Supremacy 1534
  —> increased crowns power over church
  —> Henry ‘justly and rightfully is… Supreme Head of the Church of England’
  —> Also given right to carry out visitations of the monasteries
  —> Ties severed with Rome
• House of lords = no abbots and the laity have more sway
• Jurisdiction of the pope had been destroyed
• appointment of reformer Archbishop of Canterbury - Thomas Cranmer

Question 3

Religious relics and appearance of the church

Answer 3

• Cromwells injunctions 1536
  —> attacked abuses and superstitions that was associated with the church
  —> expressed moderate opposition to presence of images in churches
  —> the number of holy days and saint days removed
  —> Cromwell’s second injunctions- orders of removal of images, denied pilgrimages
  —> Shrines destroyed e.g. Thomas Beckets in 1538

Question 4

Doctrine

Answer 4

• The Act of ten articles 1536 (used to be act of six articles)
• Religious doctrine has been influenced by protestantism
• the bishops book 1437

Question 5

Monasteries change

Answer 5

• Monasteries had been dissolved, effectively destroyed regular church and its clerical members
• Many monastic buildings were falling to ruin
• Huge transfer of resources from the church to the crown through dissolution

Question 6

Beliefs and culture (pilgrimages)

Answer 6

• Religious culture had been influenced by humanism and it undermined the traditional church
• Deepening signs of Protestantism in some localities e.g. Kent

Question 7

Services and worship DID NOT CHANGE because…

(But bible was published in English)

Answer 7

• services still in latin
• services remained largely traditional in form
• music continued to play an important role in services

Question 8

The dissolution of the Monasteries led to:

Answer 8

• cultural vandalism (loss of great architectures, more money put into education)
• change in ownership of land/property (land quickly sold off, mainly remained with royal providing income)
• balance of power (more transfer of power into hands of the laity at local level)
• increase to the crowns income and power
• impact on monks and nuns (unemployed, become married or priest)
• impact on communities (religious houses offered hospitality, monasteries supplied for poor and education)
• impact on learning (some schools that had been attached to monastic institutions re-opened)