Renaissance Ideas

• The ideas of humanists were well established by the 1530s. Almost all people in England were ready to accept the need for reform of the Church.
• Sir Thomas More was a supported of reform and humanist ideas, but opposed the royal supremacy.
• Many powerful figures went along with the religious changes after 1529, but remained conservative at heart. They might be called Henricians.
• Some Bishops were prepared to agree with the Supremacy, Break with Rome, Dissolution of the monasteries and even the English Bible, but were opposed to doctrinal change and the destruction of images.
• Erastians and Pragmatists -They recognized the King’s power and thought it quite wrong, indeed sinful, to oppose the Supreme Head of the Church in an active way.
• The nobility remained loyal to the Crown at the time of the Reformation but were not enthusiastic about the changes.