2. Roman Catholic Church dominated:
Education
Moral values
Literacy
Means of communication
3. The church had a Pope
He was elected and resided in Rome
He was usually Italian
He controlled the Roman Church
The papacy seemed to forget its role.
4. In the fifteenth century there were many people who
challenged the church
Some of them were Jan Huss and John Wycliffe
5. He was an intellectual German Monk
In 1517 he had some doubts about the way in
witch Tetzel raised money in Germany
The method was called indulgences
The church felt its authority challenged
6. The condition of the Catholic Church at that moment.
The ideas coming out of the renaissance
The rise of new nationalistic ideas
The evolution of new social and economic forces
The Popes had been a poor example as religious
leaders
A few Italians families controlled the
Papacy.
7. Supremacy of the Pope in all matters of religion
Beliefs based on Old and New Testament of the Bible.
The church was the only interpreter of the bible
Main beliefs in Ten Commandments
Believed in one God.
The Trinity of God the Father, the son and the Holy
Spirit
8. Good works help towards the salvation of the
individual
Important role of the Virgin Mary
Route to eternal salvation lay through the Church
The Eucharist
Monasteries
Belief in seven sacraments: Baptism, Confirmation,
Communion, Penance, Marriage, Holy Orders,
Extreme Unction
9. The Papacy was corrupt
Bishops failed to attend their duties
Poor education of the priest
Nepotism
Clergy were not living up to their vows of poverty,
chastity and obedience.
Bishops were young
Some clergyman had several posts
10. He thought that personal belief of an individual
would lead to eternal salvation
This view was against the Roman Catholic Church
In 1510 he visited Rome and saw too many
corruption and immorality
11. The arrival in a neighbouring area of Johann
Tetzel, a monk who run a programme of selling
indulgences.
12. Criticism of the practise of selling
indulgences.
Criticism of papal taxation.
Implicit criticism of the Pope for allowing
indulgences.
Debating points about human salvation.
13. Spalatin, Luther`s great friend and supporter
helped to secure Luther`s position.
He was chaplain and secretary to
Frederick, Elector of Saxony
14. He took advantage of the approach of the Papacy
towards him to write three of his most important
works.
“ Address to the Christian Nobility of the German
Nation” (1520)
“The Babylonian Captivity of the Church” (1520)
The freedom of the Christian Man” (1520)
15. Luther`s ability to get his points over.
Luther was writing not only in Latin, but also in
German.
The Papacy was inefficient and ineffective, and
failed to analyse the nature of Lutheran threat.
Printing press.
16.
17. The support of the princes and the inability of
Charles V to manage Lutheran threat
His ideas were spread among cities where there
was a tradition of anti-clericalism.
He was a creative genius and a powerful
communicator
He was helped by Melanchthon, a great scholar
and thinker
18. It has been argued that it was
Melanchthon, and not Luther, who
wrote the first pure work of
Protestantism in 1521.
It included:
The nature of sin
Free will
Canon Law
The role of the Bible
The importance of good works in
insuring salvation
The mass
The relationship between Church and
State
19. Justification by faith
The new role of the ministry and the Church as a
whole
The sacraments
The relationship between Church and State
Attitudes towards the saints and saint worship
22. He was actually King by conquest.
He married Elizabeth of York, Edward IV`s
daughter, thereby joining the two rival
houses of York and Lancaster.
23. Henry`s first Parliament revived an
earlier statute against livery and
maintenance
Henry`s Chamber Act (1487) revived the
jurisdiction of his Council over all cases of
livery and maintenance,bribery and civil
disorder
26. Foreign policy
Henry VII arranged many marriages, they
were:
Arthur, his eldest son, to Catherine, daughther
of Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain
Henry, his second son, to Catherine
Margaret,his daugther, to King James IV of
Scotland
Mary,his youngest daugther, to Charles of
Castile, the grandson of Emperor Maximilian
27. Continental Policy
The English people considered France their
mortal enemy
Spain made English aid against France a term
of the marriage treaty of Arthur with Catherine
Maximilian of Austria and Ferdinand of Spain
allied with Henry VII against France
Charles VIII of France quickly came to terms
with Henry to avoid fighting the English as
well.
The Treat of Etaples (1492)
28. Scottish Policy
James IV invaded England in support of
the pretender, Warbeck
Henry reponded by threatening Scotland
with invasion
The Anglo-Scottish treaty of 1499
29. Irish Policy
Yorkist Irish had supported the
pretenders to the English throne
Henry sent Sir Edward Poynings to
Ireland in 1494 to act as Lord Deputy
and to reassert English Authority over
the island
From this time on, no Irish laws could
operate without the approval of the
Crown, whereas All English laws
automatically applied to Ireland
30. •Henry came to the throne at the age
of seventeen.
•He was well educated, intelligent
and with a captivating personality.
•He was born to be a leader
31. Cardinal Wolsey
He was Henry´s closest advisor
He managed the area of foreign policies
Italian Spanish politics:
Italy had become the battleground of Europe
The papacy organized alliances to prevent one-power
domination.
England joined the Pope´s Holy league
32. The Spanish alliance
Henry was married to Catherine
Ferdinand and Henry started and expedition
against the French in 1512, but they failed.
Later, Henry defeated the French by himself.
Ferdinand abandoned Henry and made an
agreement with Louis XII
He also tried to make a coalition against the
new King of France, Francis I, but he could not
33. England and the Franco-Spanish
rivalry
In 1519 there was a confrontation between
Charles V, who was the Roman Emperor and
Francis I
England made an alliance with Spain, which
finished in a confrontation with France.
This cost a lot of money and he had to
demand money for taxes
34. Pro French policy
Charles V defeated The French at Pavia in
1525, sacked Rome and made the Pope his
prisoner
Wolsey changed side and seek a peace with
France
Wolsey´s strategy was ineffective
In 1529 Francis I and Charles V signed the
Treaty of Cambrai without consulting Wolsey
35. Scottish policy
In 1513 the Scots took advantage of Henry´s
absence in France and invaded England, but
they were defeated
His son continued, but they were defeated
again defeated, and he finally died.
Mary Stuart came to the throne
36. Wales and Ireland
Wales was incorporated with England by the
Act of Union in 1536
A second Act in 1543 joined the legal
administrative procedures
Ireland
Henry assumed the titles of Ireland and as
Head of the Irish Church
37. King and Church
Henry VIII had no theological argument with
the Church, and he wrote a tract against
Luther
In 1527 he desired to divorce Catherine and
get married to Ana Boleyn
As Wolsey could not do anything Henry lost
patience with the Pope and with Wolsey
He dismissed Wolsey and broke with Rome
38. Thomas Crammer and Thomas Cromwell
(later to be chancellor)made his divorce
In 1533 Anne Boleyn was pregnant and they
had a daughter, Elizabeth
Act of supremacy (1534): The break with
Rome was complete and Henry was the
supreme Head of the Church of England.
39. The Reformation of
Parliament
The Reformation of Parliament passed 137
statutes, thirty two of them related to Church
In the Act of succession Parliament secured
the crown to Elizabeth and declared Mary
illegitimate.
40. Political consequences: The removal of
abbots cut in half the number of
ecclesiastical lords and changed the
complexion of the House of Lords.
Social and economic consequences: King
Henry became rich with the income from
confiscated monastic lands. However, the
war with France led him to the end of his
reign.
Poor people lost social services that were
offered by religious houses.
41. Church Practices
English replaced Latin in Church services in
1535
Relics and shrines were discredited and
occasionally destroyed
They declared the Bible and the creeds the
sole authority on matters of faith