was the church ripe for reform? Flashcards
3 reasons why the church may need reforming pre 1529
- indulgences
- simony
- celibacy (e.g. Wolsey fathered 2 children)
Anti-clericalism -
opposed to influence + activities clergy or Church in secular affairs
how did printing press increase awareness of church ?
-increased literacy + reform popularity as ppl begin to think for themselves (no longer spoon fed info)
what did the renaissance see an influx of
humanism - rationalist outlook on life (not atheism)
– in intellectual spaces only
who was erasmus
- critical of abuses in Catholic Church - committed to reformation
- in unis + visited Henry VIII
when did Henry get awarded defender of faith nd why
1521 for condemning martin Luther + 95 theses
who were the lollards
limited minority reform movement (followed John Wycliffe)
state of pre -reformation church
MAJORITY content only intellectuals questioned
2 criticism of church
- pluralism multiple roles - wolsey - archbishop York + cardinal
- absenteeism (wolsey didn’t visit bishopric York until 1529)
RICHARD HUNNE CASE(everything wrong w/ church)
-who was he and what happened?
- rich merchant - refused to give dead babies robe to priest so excommunicated \
- 1514 - church authorities raid house + find reformation books
RICHARD HUNNE CASE(everything wrong w/ church)
-how did hunne die
-hung at lollards tower
what happened to clerics
feb 1515 - found guilty but Henry pardoned
hunne case
-what did the 1512 bill do
benefit clergymen (tried in separate courts) removed form minor offices
what did Henry standish assert to Henry in June case
-why was this case important
- 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
evidence to say church was rotten
- hunne case
- 1511 John collet dean of st Pauls sermon - church greedy
BUT large amount fo evidence suggest church was vigorous
-oridnation rates + tithes
-ordination rates high
-discontent over tithes in hunne case = exception
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BUT large amount fo evidence suggest church was vigorous
-religious guilds
57% ppl Devon left money
to them 1520-1529
BUT large amount of evidence suggest the church was vigorous
-what did archbishop Warham declare in 1512
- archbishop warham 1512 4/260 - parish priests kent ignorant
- £305 donated by louth parishioners for steeple
was church an ‘unseaworthy chip, its timbers rottener + barnacled?’
(thesis)
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
was church ripe for reform
