Topic 3: Beyond Central Europe

Question 1

France, Low Countries and England

Answer 1

• Low countires - repression, cooperative secular and ecclesiasticl authorities;
• France - King Francis attitude was key - initially intellectually tolerant, opposition after affair of the placards;
• England - Lollards legacy - predisposed to be anti-protestant

Question 2

Henrician Reformation

Answer 2

• Anti-Rome (wanted to marry Anne Boelyn but couldnt get an annulment from Katherine of Aragon).
• 1532 parliamentary act undoes ecclesiastical obedience to Rome.
• 1535-1539 attacks on institutions - comwell and Cranmer.
• 1538 Anti-protestant reaction

Question 3

Early Catholic Response

Answer 3

• Deal with heresy - eternal salvation at stake
• Written documents in Latin.
• Arguements: tradition of consensus and custom; Authority of church > bible; Contradictions within protestantism; Heresy leads to political subversion and anarchy
• Reluctance to enter into propaganda.

Question 4

Rise and Fall of Munster

Answer 4

• Melchior Hoffman from Strasborg to Enden to Munster
• Jon Matthias and Jan Van Lieden
• communal ownership and polygamy.
• Due to tension and leadership vacuum
• 1535 beseiged and destroyed.
• Resulted in repression of Dutch Anabaptists.