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
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.
Mortimer's work, Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England , was written as a travel guide for the time traveler. Mortimer used the concept of time travel to achieve many things. He visits a time era from the past and compares it to our modern ideas. By applying the concept of time travel to tell a story; he makes it a unique and thought provoking read. Mortimer takes common misconceptions head on and gives an in-depth analysis of life in Elizabethan England.these range from the politics of the era to the bad smells Elizabethans were tolerant of.
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.
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”.
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.
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
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).
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”).
It was the death of Edward VI, in 1553, that brought about the realization of Henry VIII’s nightmare of having no male heirs. Although Edward attempted to keep his sister’s out of the will (he did not want his Catholic oldest sister, Mary, to have control of the Protestant country he had inherited from his father) and appoint Jane Grey as heir. However Mary quickly declared herself queen at her manor Kenninghall on July 9, 15531. Jane’s feeble claim,passing over Mary, Elizabeth, Mary Stuart, and her mother, could have been declared Edward’s desire, however his council’s authority died along with him. Northumberland, the man behind Jane’s campaign, also did an about face at Cambridge, supporting Mary’s claim to the throne. This was due to his forces being wreaked by deserters. However Mary showed no mercy and he was executed in August as a traitor, along with Sir John Gates and Sir Thomas Palmer.
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.
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 Elizabethan Era is often referred to as the Golden Age of England (A Changing View...). The Elizabethan Era, named after Queen Elizabeth I, was a time of change and discovery (Elizabethan Superstitions). Elizabeth ruled in a time of religious turmoil; both the Catholics and Protestants fought to be the official religion of England. (Elizabethan World View). Many people throughout England struggled to find the “correct” religion (Elizabethan World View). Religion was changing and so did science. During the late 1500’s science began to evolve; new ideas, concepts, and beliefs were starting to emerge (A Changing View). Magic was considered to be very similar to science in this era. The belief in magical creatures served as the roots for many superstitions.
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.