During the Renaissance in England, the government was comprised of the monarch, Privy Council, and Parliament. Queen Elizabeth I was a powerful monarch who required Parliament's approval for taxes. The Privy Council advised the Queen, consisting of 11 members by 1597. Parliament included the House of Lords for nobles and clergy, and the House of Commons for commoners. Philosophically, humanism became influential as secular ideas about mankind and classical antiquity spread. Religiously, Protestantism emerged under Martin Luther in opposition to the Catholic Church's practices, switching church services to English and viewing priests as ordinary people.

2. POLITICAL, PHILOSOPHICAL ,
AND RELIGIOUS CHANGES
DURING
RENAISSANCE IN ENGLAND

3. POLITICAL CHANGES DURING
RENAISSANCE

5. The government in England during this era was made up
of three different bodies: the monarch, the Privy
Council, and the Parliament.
1. The monarch was Queen Elizabeth. She was very
powerful and determined most of the laws of the
land, but she did have to get approval from
Parliament to implement taxes.
2. The Privy Council was made up of the queen's
closest advisors. They would make
recommendations and give her advice. When
Elizabeth first became queen there were 50
members of the Privy Council. She reduced this over
time until there were only 11 members by 1597.
3. Parliament had two groups.
House of Lords and was made up of nobles and
high ranking church officials . House of Commons
which was made up of commoners.

6. • The political authority of the Catholic Church
had diminished due to internal conflicts.
• Feudal system discontinued.
• Merchants raised their class.
• humanism affect
• banking system

7. PHILOSOPHICAL CHANGES DURING
RENAISSANCE

8. The Main Ingredients of Medieval
Philosophy
• Classical pagan philosophy (Greek, Roman
versions)
• New Christian religion.
• Season with a variety of Jewish and Islamic
intellectual heritages.

10. Philosophical changes
• Humanism
• Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio.
• Catholic Church
• Physical characteristics of humans
• Enlightenment

11. key characteristics
• Secular.
• Mankind.
• Classical antiquity.
• Cultivation of aesthetic sense.(Platonism)

12. Writers of humanism period
• Erasmes (republic)
• Sir Thomas (Utopia)
• Sir Philip Sydney. (Defense of poetry)
• Frances Bacon (essayist)
• Marlow (dramatist)
• Shakespeare.

13. RELIGIOUS CHANGES DURING
RENAISSANCE

14. In the early 1500's the people of
England practiced the
Roman Catholic religion.

15. In the years(1483 - 1546) German
Martin Luther prompted a new
religion called Protestantism.

16. MAIN DIFFERENCES
CATHLOCISM
• Elizabethan Catholics believed that Church
Services and the Bible should be in Latin,
as it had been for 1000 years.
• Elizabethan Catholics firmly believed that
Priests were the link between God and
the people and that the Pope was
ordained by God. They were viewed as
special and expected to devote their lives
to God and remain unmarried and wear
elaborate robes
• Elizabethan Catholics believed that Priests
and the Pope were able to forgive sins -
at a price. Gifts, or indulgences, were
given to the church.
• Catholics believed that Churches should
be decorated as they celebrate God .
PROTESTAINTISM
• Elizabethan Protestants believed that
Church Services and the Bible should be
in the language of the people
• Elizabethan Protestants believed that
people could find God without a priest or
a Pope and that Ministers were ordinary
people who should lead normal lives and
wear ordinary robes
• Elizabethan Protestants believed that only
God could forgive sins
• Protestants believed that Churches should
be plain allowing the people to
concentrate on the sermons .