was the church ripe for reform?

Question 1

3 reasons why the church may need reforming pre 1529

Answer 1

• indulgences
• simony
• celibacy (e.g. Wolsey fathered 2 children)

Question 2

Anti-clericalism -

Answer 2

opposed to influence + activities clergy or Church in secular affairs

Question 3

how did printing press increase awareness of church ?

Answer 3

-increased literacy + reform popularity as ppl begin to think for themselves (no longer spoon fed info)

Question 4

what did the renaissance see an influx of

Answer 4

humanism - rationalist outlook on life (not atheism)

– in intellectual spaces only

Question 5

who was erasmus

Answer 5

• critical of abuses in Catholic Church - committed to reformation
• in unis + visited Henry VIII

Question 6

when did Henry get awarded defender of faith nd why

Answer 6

1521 for condemning martin Luther + 95 theses

Question 7

who were the lollards

Answer 7

limited minority reform movement (followed John Wycliffe)

Question 8

state of pre -reformation church

Answer 8

MAJORITY content only intellectuals questioned

Question 9

2 criticism of church

Answer 9

• pluralism multiple roles - wolsey - archbishop York + cardinal
• absenteeism (wolsey didn’t visit bishopric York until 1529)

Question 10

RICHARD HUNNE CASE(everything wrong w/ church)

-who was he and what happened?

Answer 10

• rich merchant - refused to give dead babies robe to priest so excommunicated \
• 1514 - church authorities raid house + find reformation books

Question 11

RICHARD HUNNE CASE(everything wrong w/ church)

-how did hunne die

Answer 11

-hung at lollards tower

Question 12

what happened to clerics

Answer 12

feb 1515 - found guilty but Henry pardoned

Question 13

hunne case

-what did the 1512 bill do

Answer 13

benefit clergymen (tried in separate courts) removed form minor offices

Question 14

what did Henry standish assert to Henry in June case

-why was this case important

Answer 14

• church h should come under kings jurisdiction
• at blackfriars 1515 bishop London declares unfair trial BUT Henry declares church should not haves seperate laws
• first time church challenged + loses power

Question 15

evidence to say church was rotten

Answer 15

• hunne case

- 1511 John collet dean of st Pauls sermon - church greedy

Question 16

BUT large amount fo evidence suggest church was vigorous

-oridnation rates + tithes

Answer 16

-ordination rates high
-discontent over tithes in hunne case = exception
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Question 17

BUT large amount fo evidence suggest church was vigorous

-religious guilds

Answer 17

57% ppl Devon left money

to them 1520-1529

Question 18

BUT large amount of evidence suggest the church was vigorous
-what did archbishop Warham declare in 1512

Answer 18

• archbishop warham 1512 4/260 - parish priests kent ignorant
• £305 donated by louth parishioners for steeple

Question 19

was church an ‘unseaworthy chip, its timbers rottener + barnacled?’
(thesis)

Answer 19

NO

• church no more corrupt than past
• small pockets lutherism in intellectual spaces
• majority population = allegiance
• fundamental structure strong perhaps barnacles in the corrupt clergy

Question 20

was church ripe for reform