Reformation

Question 1

How did Collinson describe the Reformation?

Answer 1

The Greatest geological faultline in European Civilization

Question 2

Who experienced the Reformation?

Answer 2

Everyone in Early Modern England and Wales

Question 3

Who lead the Reformation?

Answer 3

Henry VIII
Edward IV
Mary I
Elizabeth I

Question 4

What was the response to Martin Luther’s break with Rome in England?

Answer 4

Very Little

Question 5

How was the power of the church communicated to the congregation?

Answer 5

Non-lingustic ways

Question 6

What are examples of how the power of the church was communicated?

Answer 6

Stained glass

Rood screens, divine between laity and clergy

Question 7

How did saints play a role in people’s life?

Answer 7

Were understood to directly intervene in people’s life

Question 8

What theologically was Henry VIII?

Answer 8

Catholic

Question 9

What theologically was Edward VI?

Answer 9

Pure Protestant

Question 10

What theologically was Mary I?

Answer 10

Catholic

Question 11

What theologically was Elizabeth I?

Answer 11

Halfway House

Question 12

What important act signalled the Reformation?

Answer 12

Dissolution of the Monasteries (1532-1540)

Question 13

Was the Reformation just physical?

Answer 13

No, Protestant faith much more about scripture. Worship of saints banned.

Question 14

What were physical changes?

Answer 14

No rood screen, no divide between the clergy and congregation

Question 15

What was the variance in the experience of the Reformation?

Answer 15

All places impacted, but resistance varied

Question 16

What is a dangerous presumption to make about the Reformation?

Answer 16

That England was protestant state, no one knew where it was going

Question 17

What was the older view of the Reformation?

Answer 17

Emphasise government policy-statutes

Question 18

Which historians endorsed the older view of the Reformation?

Answer 18

Nation Historians-Elton/Pollard

Question 19

What is the alternative view of the Reformation?

Answer 19

Bottom Up-Links between Lollard movement and hot spots

Question 20

What was the revisionist view of the Reformation?

Answer 20

Also Bottom Up but resistance to Reformation

Question 21

Who are Reformation Revisionist Historians?

Answer 21

Haigh and Duffy

Question 22

Why can it be said the Reformation failed?

Answer 22

Ignorance of protestant teaching and catholic teaching abound

Question 23

What event can be used as an example that the Reformation failed?

Answer 23

Pilgrimage of Grace, 1536

Question 24

What was the Pilgrimage of Grace?

Answer 24

Uprising against Henry’s Reformation

Question 25

Who has argued that the Reformation failed?

Answer 25

Fletcher-Conservative society against Reformation

Question 26

What is the issue with revisionist theories of the Reformation?

Answer 26

Difficult to account for success of Reformation-Becomes state religion

Question 27

What two key events solidified the Reformation?

Answer 27

Spanish Armada | Gunpowder Plot

Question 28

Why did the Spanish Armada solidify English Protestantism?

Answer 28

Because they won due to God's intervention

Question 29

Why did the Gunpowder Plot solidify English Protestantism?

Answer 29

Created antipathy against towards Catholics

Question 30

What did Duffy argue about the Reformation?

Answer 30

Mary's reign was not sterile but powerful counter-revolution

Question 31

What did Dickens argue?

Answer 31

Mary failed to discover the counter-revolution

Question 32

What does Collinson warn about revisionist takes on the Reformation?

Answer 32

Must not go too far, Catholic England did eventually become one of the most Protestant nations

Question 33

What does Collinson say about the complexity of the Reformation?

Answer 33

It is too complex to label, obscuring our understanding

Question 34

Does Collinson believe the Reformation was an iconoclastic process?

Answer 34

Yes, if anything, pre-reformation religion oral and visual while post was religion of the printed book (Foxe)

Question 35

How does Collinson believe that Protestantism took root?

Answer 35

Mass production of NTs because burning copies futile

Question 36

Why does Collinson say historians should be careful dividing the Reformation as a process between print and no print?

Answer 36

Protestants used oral culture-Calvin never for print | Catholics would use print to survive during clandestine period

Question 37

How important was the physical presence of the church in Wales?

Answer 37

As important in Wales as in England

Question 38

Why was the church as important in Wales as England?

Answer 38

Images of saints-Home grown saints (St Telio) | Vibrancy of churches

Question 39

What problems faced the Welsh Catholic Church?

Answer 39

Welsh dioceses were impoverished

Question 40

Why did Wales have to take part in the Reformation?

Answer 40

If England became Protestant so did Wales for security reasons

Question 41

Was there much resistance to the Reformation in Wales?

Answer 41

Little resistance, no revolts, probably because Gentry were supportive

Question 42

What was Wales's reaction to Mary I?

Answer 42

Elicited little reaction, most people happy to see return of old faith

Question 43

Why was the Welsh language a stumbling block for the Reformation?

Answer 43

No provision for the Welsh Language

Question 44

What was Protestantism seen as in Wales?

Answer 44

Faith of the Saxons, a foreign imposition

Question 45

How did the Tudors treat languages?

Answer 45

Did not accommodate them

Question 46

Which act allowed Protestant texts to be translated?

Answer 46

The Act of 1536

Question 47

Why was the Act of 1536 contradictory to Tudor ideals?

Answer 47

Subverted idea of linguistic uniformity

Question 48

Which two groups weren't happy with the Reformation?

Answer 48

Catholics | Puritans

Question 49

How did Salesbury (1567) make Protestantism less foreign?

Answer 49

Argued Welsh were original Britons and experienced the faith until Augustine, therefore not new but revival

Question 50

Why were Catholics a issue for the Reformation?

Answer 50

Minority but numerous in places such as Monmouthshire