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Reformation (Chapter 1: Dissent and the break with Rome (Chapter 1.1:…
Reformation
Chapter 1: Dissent and the break with Rome
Chapter 1.1: Importance of the Church in 1500s
William Melton, chancellor of York
Wrote
Exhortation
in 1510
Concerned with behaviour of clergy
Wanted more reading and learning
Small part of pious gentry, not many agreed with him
Power of the Church
Statistics
£400,000 a year compared to £40,000 a year from royal lands
45,000 clergymen
Church law courts and priveleges
Church and monarch
Churchmen were the most highly educated people in the country so they became government ministers
Bishops and abbots sat in the House of Lords
Thomas Wolsey was chief minister of Henry VIII for 15 years, as well as Archbishop of York and cardinal
Great Chain of Being
Suppressed rebellions against the king and Church
Taught there was a universal hierarchy, enforcing feudalism throughout the kingdom
Donations
The Church taught that worship should be beautiful
Rich people donated greatly to the Church to reduce time in purgatory
In the 1400s many churches in East Anglia were luxuriously rebuilt because of wealthy cloth merchant donations
Where money went
Money for special prayers to be said
Money to found a chantry where thousands of private masses for dead people were celebrated
Indulgences to speed the souls of loved ones to heaven
Personal items like bed linen and wedding rings so their names could be read out in the requiem for the dead ceremony after they died
People paid 10% of their income in tithes to the Church, peasant farmers paid it in grain
The People and the Church
Priests
Represented the pope
Only they could read the Latin Bible and prayer book
Status represented by elaborate vestments worn
Ordination ceremony promoted the idea that they were elevated above ordinary villagers
Performance
Rood screens separated the priest performing important parts of the ceremony at the altar
Priest would reveal the bread and wine
Bell ring would signal transubstantiation
Congregation participation
Reciting prayers in Latin
Kneeling to pray
Standing for the Gospel
Sensory appeal of the Mass
Priest's colourful vestments
Ringing of bell
Smell of incense burning
Sprinkling of holy water
Certainty
Farming
They thought if they pleased God there would be a good harvest as the priest taught God controlled nature
They worried about bad harvests
Most people were farmers who had terrible, short lives
Afterlife
Church walls showed vivid imagery of the beauty of heaven and the horror of hell
Submission
Desire to get to heaven gave the Church enormous power over people
People had to attend Mass regularly
People had to confess their sins to the priest
People had to believe in the sacraments
Chapter 2: The dissolution of the monasteries
Chapter 3: Reforming the Churches
