Henry VII

• Church

  • catholic church
  • 17 diocese under one bishop
  • Archbishop of Canterbury and York
• Community

  • daily life
  • baptism, marriage, death
  • purgatory
  • grace and mass = eucharist
  • transubstantiation
• Social Role

  • leave money for chantries
  • leave money for the church under their wills
  • donations to rebuild parish churches
• Orders

  • nunneries = less prestige
  • friars = declining, worked amongst lay people
  • monastic = 1% were monks - living in some 900 monasteries
• Lollards; Heresy etc

  • Lollardy = English bible, no transubstantiation, corrupt church
  • John Wycliffe
  • declining numbers
  • anticlericalism = not widespread
  • burning of heretics = not popular
• Humanism

  • 14th/15th century
  • patronise education
  • Erasmus in 1499 = criticised the Church
  • William Caxton = printing press in 1476 = led to new ideas and texts available
• Arts

  • gothic styles
  • drama
  • music
  • buildings