The English Reformation

Question 1

Who was Christopher Haigh? What were his ideas about the English Reformation(s)?

Answer 1

Historian, revisionist
There were 5 English Reformations, three of which were protestant and two of which were catholic.

Question 2

List the years and names of Christopher Haige’s “Protestant Political Reformations.”

Answer 2

1. 1530-1539 - Henry VIII and the Reformation Parliament
2. 1547-1552 - Edward VI and company
3. 1559-1563 - Elizabeth

Question 3

List the years and names of Christopher Haige’s two “Catholic Political Reformations.”

Answer 3

1. 1540-1545 Henry VIII puts on the brakes
2. 1553-1558 Mary

Question 4

Explain the traditionalist view of the English Reformation.

Answer 4

Foxe’s Book of Martyrs presented a longstanding history of religious dissent in England (like the Lollards)
AG Dickens, a prominent historian of the twentieth century, was anti-clerical, and argued that the English never liked the Latin Church.

Question 5

Despite the traditionalist view, how did English kings get along with popes since the fifteenth century?

Answer 5

They got along well.

Question 6

Explain the Revisionist view. Who were the major historians behind it?

Answer 6

English people were not into the Reformation and it took a long time for them to get on board.
Scarisbrick, Haigh, and Duffy

Question 7

What did English evangelicals believe?

Answer 7

they valued the Gospels over the traditional Latin Church

Question 8

Who was the most famous English evangelical of this time? What did he do and when? Why did the Bishop of London disagree with his translation?

Answer 8

William Tyndale
He translated the Bible into English in the 1510s
The Bishop of London feared what the masses would do if they had access to Scripture.

Question 9

Where did Tyndale go? Who did he meet? When did he finish printing the New Testament?

Answer 9

He went to continental Europe and met Martin Luther.
1525

Question 10

What was Tyndale’s most important translation?

Answer 10

He translated “ecclesia” as “congregation” not “church”

Question 11

What happened to Tyndale?

Answer 11

He was burned at the stake in Antwerp in 1536

Question 12

When did Catherine of Aragon die?

Answer 12

1536

Question 13

Anne Boleyn had a miscarriage. What was it called? What was it considered?

Answer 13

a “monstrous birth” - fetus was deformed
It was considered a bad omen from God

Question 14

How did Henry VIII feel about his marriage with Anne? What did he do about it?

Answer 14

He believed it was cursed, he had her executed

Question 15

Who was Henry VIII’s next wife? Who was her child?

Answer 15

Jane Seymour, Edward

Question 16

Why did Henry meet resistance?

Answer 16

he elevated the Boelyns, who were unpopular

Question 17

How was the government feeling about its own perception?

Answer 17

They felt paranoid and worried

Question 18

Who opposed Henry’s marriage to Anne Boleyn?

Answer 18

Sir Thomas More, who refused to sign the oath of loyalty to Henry VIII, was executed for treason

Question 19

What happened to Bishop Fisher?

Answer 19

He was also a victim of Caesaro Papism, executed for treason.

Question 20

What was the Pilgrimage of Grace? Where was it?

Answer 20

Northern England
coincides with sale of monastic lands
Northern landowners and aristocrats wanted to be better recognized and protested religious change (they wanted Mass back)
Duke of Norfolk was dispatched to handle rebels, but he failed. Rebels were later squashed.