The English Reformation

📋 Course Outline

1. Catholic England Before Reform
2. European Reformist Challenges
3. Henry VIII Breaks With Rome
4. Henrician Legislation and Dissolution
5. Edwardian Protestant Reformation
6. Mary’s Catholic Restoration
7. Elizabethan Religious Settlement
8. Religious Conflict Under Elizabeth

📖 1. Catholic England Before Reform

🔑 Key Concepts & Definitions

• English Catholic Church : Before the Reformation, England was a Catholic country whose Church was headed by the Pope in Rome and operated independently of the sovereign.
• Transubstantiation : the Catholic belief that bread and wine became Christ’s body and blood during the Eucharist.

★ Must-know

📌 The secular clergy consisted of priests under bishops and archbishops, whereas the regular clergy consisted of monks and nuns belonging to religious orders.

• The Church owned one fifth of England’s land and collected tithes, defined as the tenth part of a crop.

📌 Catholic doctrine held that salvation could be obtained through God’s grace and human merits expressed through good works, church attendance, charity, and prayers for the dead.

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