beggining of religon

• Book of honour/primers


  Devout- litterate, central place within society
• Book of honour/primers


  • Often left in wills
  • One of the first book produced
  • Latin
• The involvment of the genrty and middling sort in reading such literature


  Did make them vulnerable to new religoud ideas
• Monastries

  No longer the spiritual powerhoues it was before
• Education of the clergy

  • Pay would vary
  • Educatiob would vary
• Divide in critisisms of the church

  • People who were in church- religous reformers who were protesta
  • Critiss from within - commited catholics
• English church

  • Generally well regarded
  • Critisms were that the church was superstitous: indulgenecs , holy water, payerd on parchment and false relics and retaining the host of fertilised crops
• Not enough to produce a radical like martin Luthor(german presit)
• Lollards were in england
• Religous experience

  Not necessarly high quality
• Divisons from within groups
• Henry 8th


  • Argued theology with distinguished theologiand
  • Embraced the ideaf od the renaissance
  • 1521 henry was the fidei defensor (defence of the faith) by Leo X
  • Declartion of the seven sacraments against martin luthor
• Luther had called the king strumpt like swine, lying baffoon and effemiateanf wrote him vomiting and excrement
• Relationships with rome


  • Generally stable and harmonious
  • Fell apart in the annulment
• Causes of the reformation


  • Critisns f the quality of the clergy
  • Pluralism- two jobs
  • Simony - money to gain roles
  • Non residence - dont live near your position
  • Anti cleraclism-Crown used church as a way of rewarding officals
• John colets sermon - 1512: 'Yes- suggests the church was being critiised from within'
• John colets sermon - 1512: 'Nothing has so disfigured the face of the Church as the secular abd wordly way of living on the art of the clergy'
• John colets sermon - 1512: 'As to second worldly evil which is the lust for the flesh'
• John colets sermon - 1512: 'They give themselves to feasting and banqueting;spend themselves in vain babbling take part in sports and plays, devote themselves to hunting and hawking are drowned in the dlights of this worlds; partonise those whi cater for their pleasure'
• Wolsey

  • Embodied many of the abuses despite clamiming to be a reformer
  • Ope reluctant but didnt want to offend Henyr 1524 Wolsey papal legate for life
  • Legitine authority to claim fees and perks that had previouly gone to the bishops. Funded his life style
  • Episocpal pluralism and non resident
  • Appointed non resident italians to a number of english sees. Paid them a stipend and pocked surplus
  • Recognised the need to root out abuses
  • Wolsey planned to covert a number of major abbes into cathedrals to create new dioceses
  • Wolsey distracted from spirtual matters by the demans of poltics