Renaissance Ideas

• Renaissance ideas began to flourish at least among some of the elite groups within English society

  During the reign of Henry VIII
• Reason for Renaissance ideas flourishing

  Can be attributed to the king himself
• Thinkers encouraged by the king

  • More
  • Erasmus
• Cultural patronage by the king


  • Commissioning of the effigies on his parents' tomb
• Cultural patronage by the king


  • Showed the influence of fashionable artistic trends which had arrived in England from Italy