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53 Cards in this Set
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what was the king’s great matter? |
annulment of Henry’s marriage to Catherine of Aragon to pursue his desire to marry Anne Boleyn |
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what does annulment mean? |
declaring the marriage legally invalid |
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when was Pope Clement VII imprisoned by the armies of the Holy Roman Emperor? |
6 May 1527 |
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who was sent by the pope to england to hear Henry’s case for an annulment? |
cardinal campeggio |
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what crime was wolsey charged with in 1529? |
praemunire |
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in what year did wolsey die of illness? |
1530 |
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in what year did thomas cromwell become chief minister? |
1532 |
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who was cromwell’s chief enemy in court? |
duke of norfolk |
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what was parliament’s main focus between 1529 and 1536? |
reformation parliament- focussed on henry’s divorce and the church |
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which two humanists had openly criticised the church? |
Colet and Erasmus |
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what did lawyer Christopher St German successfully argue about the Church’s legal power? |
superiority of English law over the canon law of the church |
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what measure did henry take against the clergy in 1531? |
collectively accused them of praemunire and fined them |
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what did henry demand of the church in 1532? |
formal submission of the clergy |
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who replaced William Warham as Archbishop of Canterbury? |
Thomas Cranmer |
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when was Henry’s marriage to Catherine of Aragon successfully annulled? |
May 1533 |
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when was princess Elizabeth born? |
7 sept 1533 |
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what was the purpose of the act in restraint of appeals? |
prevented catherine of aragon from appealing to Rome over the annulment |
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what was the purpose of the act of supremacy? |
gave legislative force to the royal supremacy which finalised the break from rome |
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what was the purpose of the act of succession? |
voided the marriage to Catherine of Aragon making the succession vested in the children of Henry and Anne Boleyn |
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what was the purpose of the treason act? |
it was tightened to include the spoken word so no one could label the king a ‘heretic’ |
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what was the purpose of the act annexing first fruits and tenths to the crown? |
increased financial burden on the clergy and strengthened royal supremacy |
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when did the dissolution of the monasteries begin? |
1536 |
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why was the money gained by the dissolution of the monasteries only short lived? |
property was granted away or sold often below market price to finance the crown’s foreign policy |
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what crime did Anne Boleyn’s enemies accuse her of? |
adultery (and also incest) |
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who did Henry marry after Anne Boleyn’s execution? |
Jane Seymour |
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in what year was prince edward born? |
1537 |
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what was the league of schmalkalden? |
organisation of german princes and free cities within the holy roman empire who supported the reformer Martin Luther |
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why was Henry’s marriage to Anne of cleves unsuccessful? |
personally and politically unsuitable |
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what two things was Cromwell accused of? |
treason and heresy |
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when was cromwell executed? |
july 1540 |
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name 3 council members who came to have increased power following the death of cromwell? |
norfolk, stephen gardiner, thomas wriothesley |
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what religion was Katherine Parr? |
protestant |
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who was the most significant English humanist in education in this period? |
John Colet |
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what type of education principles were adopted by Oxford university in this time? |
platonist |
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which Dutch humanist had an influence over English humanism? |
Erasmus |
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who was the most significant humanist writer in this period? |
thomas more |
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what is pluralism? |
receiving profits from more than one post |
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what does anti-clericalism mean? |
opposition to the political and social importance of the clergy |
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what happened to Richard Hunne? |
murdered in Bishop of London’s prison in 1514 |
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what does Christopher Haigh argue about the extent of anticlericalism? |
relatively rare less of a cause but rather more a consequence of the Reformation |
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when did martin luther first challenge the catholic church? |
1517 |
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which humanist did henry appoint to be his son’s tutor? |
John Cheke |
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in what year was cromwell appointed Viceregent in spirituals? |
1534 |
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what was the valor ecclesiasticus? |
survey set up by Cromwell in 1535 to assess the wealth of the church |
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in what year was the act of parliament passed allowing the dissolution of the monasteries? |
1536 |
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by what year were the last of the monasteries dissolved? |
1540 |
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what did the 1536 royal injunctions restrict? |
the number of holy days to be observed |
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what did the 1538 royal injunctions require every church to have? |
english bible |
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why did Henry ask parliament to pass the act for the advancement of true religion in 1543? |
restrict reading of the bible to upper class males due to fear over loss of order and social control |
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what year was the ten articles passed? |
1536 |
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what year was the bishop’s book passed? |
1537 |
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in what year was the six articles passed? |
1539 |
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in what year was the kings book passed? |
1543 |