14 - The Social Impact of religious and economic change under Edward VI
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- The Social Impact of Religious and Economic Change under Edward VI
- Impact on Society of the religious changes
- The destructive attitudes of the Crown caused a decline in expenditure on Church goods after 1540
- Their bequests would have been confiscated
- Many wills didn't survive + many didn't create them
- By Edward's reign, people were less likely to leave their money to the Parish Church
- Haigh asserts that this was a religious crisis
- By Edward's reign, people were less likely to leave their money to the Parish Church
- 'As services became plainer, plays and ales were suppressed, guilds and special funds were abolished, so churches attracted less affection - and much less money - from their people'
- A decline in the number of candidates for ordination has been suggested
- Less manpower
- 155- Hooper claimed that the rate of reform was slower due to public opinion
- Many churches tried to avoid the Crown stealing their goods by selling them
- Jan 1553 the Crown started to confiscate Church plate - some parishes managed to hide theirs
- Duffy has suggested that this was an attack on the history and collective memory of the parishes
- This encouraged a 'climate of discontent and disobedience'
- Duffy has suggested that this was an attack on the history and collective memory of the parishes
- Jan 1553 the Crown started to confiscate Church plate - some parishes managed to hide theirs
- It's unsurprising that in this climate people welcomed Mary
- The destructive attitudes of the Crown caused a decline in expenditure on Church goods after 1540
- Intellectual Developments: humanist and religious thought
- A contest between 2 reforming traditions
- the tradition of evangelical humanism (Erasmus)
- more radical Protestantism
- Moderate humanism still exerted some weakened influence
- Cranmer had been influenced by humanism
- 1547 injunctions required each parish to have a copy of Erasmus' 'Paraphrases;
- The humanist Sir John Cheke had been Edward's Tutor
- Humanist writer Nicholas Udall received government encouragement
- William Cecil encouraged humanist Cambridge scholars
- humanist-influenced reformers Peter Martyr and Martin Bucer were invited to work in England
- Cranmer got Bucer a job as Professor of Divinity at Cambridge
- the great Lutheran and humanist scholar Philip Melanchthon was invited to be Bucer's replacement
- Northumberland gained reform through a less comprehensive approach
- He was more influenced by John Hooper
- The 1552-53 radical move towards reform was destroyed by Edward's death
- Never before had the English population been subjected to eligious change so quickly
- A contest between 2 reforming traditions
- Impact on Society of the religious changes
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