social impact of religious + economic change under edward vi Flashcards
What did religious policy move towards in Edward VI’s reign?
In the direction of Protestantism.
What did the moderate Book of Common Prayer in 1549 exemplify regarding Somerset’s approach to religion?
That he was being very cautious and was anxious to increase religious tension.
Who wrote the Book of Common Prayer in 1549?
Archbishop Cranmer.
What were the two key objectives of the Book of Common Prayer of 1549?
To establish a single form for services within the Church of England and to translate the services into English for wider understanding of key texts.
What ambiguous Eucharist declaration did the Book of Common Prayer imply?
That there was still acceptance of transubstantiation.
What city sustained many attacks on popular religious practice during Somerset’s rule?
London, despite the reluctance of public opinion to embrace religious reform.
What did the injunctions of July 1547 do?
Attacked many features of popular Catholicism, such as lights, images, stained glass, processions and practices associated with Candlemas, Ash Wednesday and Palm Sunday.
Why were the chantries and religious guilds dissolved in December 1547?
Due to the Crown needing money to pay for expensive foreign policy.
Why was the social impact of religious change highly significant?
As the acts were a sustained attack on the religious experience of ordinary people. It had enabled a plundering of the Church’s resources
What did the injunctions of 1547 do to many traditional Catholic practices?
Destroyed them.
What did the attack on chantries in 1547 destroy for the dead?
It ruined their way of connecting to the communities that they’d once been apart of.
What did the attack on guilds and confraternities mean for social events?
The Crown had confiscated money and land that had once been used for charitable activities, feasts and celebrations.
What did Northumberland wish to do in relation to the Church?
Continue Protestant reforms that Somerset had initiated and to plunder more of the Church’s wealth.
Why had Northumberland began to move in a more radical direction regarding Protestantism?
- Previously cautious Cranmer had begun to move in a much more radical way, evident in his Book of Common Prayer introduced in 1552.
- Radical senior clergy, Bishop of London and Bishop of Gloucester, were becoming more influential
- Reflected the influence from Edward VI on policy-making
What did the Common Book of Prayer of 1552 entail?
- Removed remaining conservative ceremonies
- Rewrote baptism, confirmation and burial services
- Radical reform of Communion service, replacing the wafer with ordinary bread
- Ban on use of ‘popish’ vestments
- Restriction on use of church music
How had Cranmer confirmed the firm Protestant nature of the official doctrine?
Through his Forty-Two Articles of Religion.
What did systematic policy did the Crown pursue following the Forty-Two Articles act?
One of asset stripping, extracting wealth from the Church by plundering property from bishops.
What did evidence from churchwarden’s accounts suggest about the reaction to the destruction and then restoration of old Catholic habits?
That response to the destruction was gradually put into effect where as responses to restoration happened rather rapidly.
What happened to expenditure on Church goods after 1540 and why?
It declined due to people feeling that there was little point donating to the Church if it was going to be confiscated by the Crown anyways.
What is shown from evidence of wills from Edward VI’s people?
They were much less likely to donate to their parish church.
What did radical Hooper admit in 1550?
That the pace of reform was slowed by uncooperative public opinion.
How did many parishes try to avoid an attack on church plate?
By selling their treasures.
What did the Crown start to do to parishes in January 1553 and what were some resourceful parishes able to do?
Confiscate church plate, but some were able to hide their treasures.
