Back in the 1400s, everyday people didn’t know how to read or write and everything revolved around religion and the Bible at the time. The church was in charge and had the knowledge about the Bible, they could read and understand it. So the people would always ask them about things they needed to know, like how they could get their deceased family members to Heaven. The pope and churchmen took advantage of the people’s illiteracy of the Latin language and told them that their loved ones were in purgatory due to their sins and in order for them to cross over to Heaven, therefore, they had to pay money to the church. The church would indulge the simpletons with lies. During the Renaissance period, which began in Italy, education was more available, …show more content…
He had a son finally from the sixth wife. His name was Edward VI; he was only nine years old when his father, King Henry, passed away. Even though he was really young he became heir of the throne of England. He didn’t know anything about ruling so the congress and people that helped the king basically controlled everything. Edward VI died at the age of twelve and then King Henrys daughter, Mary Tudor, reigned over the kingdom for five years and then passed away. After Mary’s death, her sister Elizabeth I became queen this led to the Elizabethan Compromise. The Elizabethan compromise was the religious settlement of England. It was a response to the religious divisions in England during the reign of Henry VIII. It was this act or compromise that gave Elizabeth ultimate control over the church of England. She wanted a church that would appeal to both Catholics and Protestants. The form of worship they had also suited the Queen’s conservative religion. While England was going through hell and trouble, Italy was prospering and nothing bad was happening there. Everyone stayed catholic and they had the intelligent people from the renaissance like Leonardo De Vinci. They were wealthy because of the paintings the artist of the renaissance had painted. They were in good shape whereas England was still being fixed up with Queen Elizabeth and her Elizabethan
Elizabeth’s Relationship With Her Parliaments Over the years, there has been much debate amongst historians Orthodox, Revisionist and Post – Revisionist, as to whether the relationship between Elizabeth and her parliaments was one of “conflict and contest,” or of “cooperation and consent”. Most of the different schools of thought agree on the facts, but disagree in their interpretations of the relationship. In general, taking into account all of the parliaments that took place throughout Elizabeth’s reign, the contemporary historians believe that Elizabeth’s relationship with her parliaments was one of “cooperation and consent.” The orthodox historians believe that Elizabeth’s relationship with her parliaments was one of “conflict and contest” and that it came from the puritan choir in the House of Commons. The revisionist historians believe that there was a relationship of “cooperation and consent”.
The Factors That Shaped the Elizabethan Religious Settlement When Elizabeth I was proclaimed Queen in 1558 a new era of religious tolerance began. With her religious settlement, Elizabeth had to consider a number of different factors. Without doubt, the most important task following her accession was to resolve the ideological divisions in the country brought about by the religious changes in the past three monarch's reigns. However, when deciding on her own religious settlement, Elizabeth had a number of influencing factors.
On Sept. 7th 1533, Elizabeth, the daughter of King Henry was born. The King of England wasn’t as thrilled since she wasn’t a boy, who would mean an heir to the throne, but it was still okay. Due to the fact that after 2 more births that resulted in death, Anne Boleyn was beheaded in 1936 when Elizabeth was only 3 years old. As her father continued to remarry, divorce, and execute his wives, one more child would be born, resulting to Elizabeth having one sister, Mary, and a new born brother named Edward. After Edward was born, his mother Jane died. She was known for being the one wife that Henry actually loved. Elizabeth grew into a very smart girl. She was known as Bess as times spoke Latin, French, German, and Henry gave her a tutor to study with. Along with everything else, she developed a temper that would help her later on as being a Queen.
Italy achieved her unification in 1870. She had a constitutional monarchy like that of Great Britain, but democratic society failed to develop in Italy because the government was controlled by corrupt politicians, called the party bosses. They controlled the elections by bribing the voters. Once they were in power, they were more interested in achieving personal gains for themselves than in solving the social and economic problems of the people. As a result of this political corruption, Italy remained a poor country. Industrial progress was slow. Italy was poor in natural resources and lack of fertile land. Many of the farm laborers were landless and were often unemployed, so millions of Italians were forced to emigrate.
She was often forced to adopt a stricter set of laws on Catholicism due to her colleagues that shared her religious beliefs, but not her spiritual beliefs on freedom. This is why she then sent Mary’s bishops to the tower she was once kept prisoner in for her religious beliefs. Elizabeth I wanted to create a church that would appeal to both Catholic and Protestant people in order to bring her subjects together rather than tear them apart through religious persecution and intolerance. In her rule, Catholic people were the minority party as Protestants finally took
...ide throughout history and to this day. In addition, the Elizabethan Settlement has demonstrated to the world the peace that can emerge from religious compromise and toleration between specific conflicting views. Lastly, the Privy Council, cabinet-type, advisory group that was first most prominently used by Elizabeth has been adopted by many thriving nations, such as the United States today. Ultimately, from all of these actions during her forty-six year reign, Queen Elizabeth I has truly been a molder of England, artistically, religiously, and politically.
King Henry VIII was born in 1491, and became king in 1509, until his death in 1547. He is probably most known for his six marriages, which he had two of his former wives beheaded. As king, Henry VIII was responsible for separating England from the Roman Catholic Church creating the newly formed Church of England. As a result of this reformation, King Henry VIII discontinued all monasteries serving Rome in England to get rid of all Catholic influences which ultimately led to a new form of church music being written for the Anglican Church. King Henry VIII was a unique king in the sense that he was a strong advocate for the arts especially music. He was a composer, musician, and had a very large court fill with some of the best musicians in Europe. His compositions were some of the most popular songs in England during the Renaissance. He was originally intended to play a major leadership role in the church, but due to the death of his elder brother Arthur he became king. The education and training he received for the church naturally played an enormous role in the daily life in his court. The fact that he was so involved with music really shaped his ideology on what should be the role for the arts in his monarch and how his court should function on a daily basis.
At the age of just two years old Henry was named Constable of Dover Castle, and Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports. When he was three years old, he was created the Duke of York. As a child Henry VIII was an all around, well mannered, respectful child. His parents were Henry VII and Elizabeth of York, and he was their second son. His siblings consisted of Arthur (1486-1502), Margaret (1489-1541), and Mary (1496-1533).
Life in the “Dark Ages” was unimaginably rough and horrendous for the people in Europe. Men, woman, children, and animals were cursed with diseases, plagues, and war. It is known that the most people would bathe was once a year if, they could. The Medieval Period sounds bad, and it was very but, good things also came out of that period that we still use today. While the poor and needy suffered plagues, the rich laughed and dined while drinking their wine. The life span for women was at most 24 years to live due to sickness and lifestyle of un-nourishment. When Rome fell, so did Catholicism. People thought that Christianity couldn’t have different types of Christianity. For example: Mormons, Lutheran’s, and Baptist’s. It was either you are a Christian or you aren’t a Christian at all. Many people died for believing in something as simple as believing that the Earth was round and not flat, for believing that you should eat or act a certain way. The lifestyle and morals of the British were so ruined and mixed up that they believed that prostitution and adultery was O.K or normal. In the beginning when confusion was striking at every doorstep, the Church made Christians pay money in order for them to hear their sins, and absolve them.
Between these years, the States of Italy were invaded on a number occasions by armies from France, Spain and other countries. At this time, the Italian States were very vulnerable; there were conflicts in Italy itself, they had out of date military equipment and Italy had insecure frontiers and unreliable allies – “That Italy failed to organise herself against invaders was due to the selfish policies.” This gave outside powers reason to use Italy as their battleground. Italy was a very wealthy country, showing this wealth, a Florentine Historian, Guicciardini said “Italy has never enjoyed such prosperity or known so favourable a situation” Also, because the Pope lived in Italy, it gave enemies more incentive to fight in Italy as opposed to any other country.
Rivalries are all around us, whether it is in sports, or family rivalries, or rivalries against another human. In The tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, there is really one big rivalry. That is which between the two houses, Montague and. Capulet. "Peace? Peace. I hate the word. As I hate hell , all Montagues and thee!" Once Tybalt said this, the reader can assume that the rivalry is fierce between the two houses. This quote played a big role in this play because it show the audience right away that Montagues hate the Capulet more than anything else in the world. Rivalries don’t only exist in books or plays but also in sports. The rivalry between the Bruins and Canadiens is the biggest
Elizabeth (1998) portrays England in the mid-1500s. The main character, Queen Elizabeth (Cate Blanchett), has been handed the crown after the death of her Catholic half-sister, Queen Mary. During her reign, Queen Elizabeth has many setbacks: for example, she refuses to marry and wants to change England’s single faith, both of which cause conflict between her and Parliament, who were members of the Catholic Church. Within the film, Elizabeth delivers a speech to the clergy, asking them to pass the Act of Uniformity, which would create a single Church of England. She wished to create a middle road, hoping that it would allow her subjects to live in peace with each other while restoring Protestantism as
The Church in the 1400’s was the center of everyone’s life and a peasant’s life was the hardest to live. The Church convinced everyone that if they broke the rules their soul would be damned. One of the rules was to devote time to the church where peasants would give hours of free labor in the churches’ fields instead of working on their own land to feed their family (“The Medieval Church”). The Church would gather tithes of food and money from every person and store them in a tithe barn where the food would rot or be poisoned by rats (“The Medieval Church”).
Elizabeth was under tremendous pressure from the beginning to create a unified country through a stable religion, however even after the Elizabethan settlement the pressure had not dissipated as both religions in England, Protestant and Catholic were unhappy with the compromise. Elizabeth had gone ahead with the settlement as the factors of her religious preferences, creating a unified country along with a parliament who supported her drove her to do. This settlement however created dire consequences as Elizabeth was now under constant threat, many of the English people opposed her while two major powers watched from a distance. The Elizabethan settlement was definitely an important decision in history, as it would decide the outcome and future of England.
In conclusion, Henry VIII life was marked with tragedy and achievements. The overall reign of the Tudor Dynasty is the same. There were three children of Henry that took the throne: Edward, who improved some of the protestant problems, but was largely unsuccessful; "Bloody Mary" who murdered, destroyed, and angered the populace of England; and finally Elizabeth took the throne. It's ironic but Henry's least expected heir was actually the best. Princess Elizabeth saved the country with her intelligence, wisdom, and ingenuity, brought England to become a world power. To the best state the country had been in for years. Henry would have been proud of Elizabeth the Virgin Queen. Too bad the fate of not having an heir to the throne repeated and the dynasty was given over to the Spanish.