summer exams- survival of catholicism Flashcards
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tolerance shown by government under Edward
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- 1549 prayer book, not as protestant as he had wanted
- retained transubstanttion
- Thomas crammer avoided building radical theology into the new prayer book
- enforced by the first Act of Uniformity. The wording was so open that it was difficult to enforce and allowed Cathlicism to thrive
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tolerance shown by Government under Liz
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- in the 1560s liz aimed to create a settlement which would allow most moderate catholics to conform
- the ambiguity of her compromise in 1559 gave a lot of room for manoeuvre, not strictly protestant or catholic
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tolerance shown by Government under Liz - Act of supremacy
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1559
declared herself as supreme governor as a compromise
appealed to both prots (who didn’t like female rulers) and Caths (who felt only the pope was head of the church)
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tolerance shown by Government under Liz - Act of uniformity
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1559
- compromise in terms of doctrine
- although they adopted edward’s more radical 1552 prayer, book, two sentences were added from the 1549 one to the communion service
- catholics could still believe ini transubstantiation
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tolerance shown by Government under Liz - church dec
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- church decoration and clergy’s testaments were to be returned to their original 1548 state before radical changes
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tolerance shown by Government under Liz - recusant
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- until the threat of catholic rebellion became less serious from 1568, the authorities were often prepared to turn a blind eye to catholic recusant activity
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tolerance shown by Government under Liz - her attitude
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- Liz was in tune with her ppl, keen to encourage protestantism, yet did not push it at the expanse of until and stability
- in many places, traditional spiritual and cultural events continued such as the tolling of bells for souls of the dead and mystery plays at corpus christi
- images and alters were not quick to be disposed of
