Henry vii and the church
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- Created on: 07-10-20 10:12
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- Safeguarding the monarchy: The church
- Pope had spiritual authority on how the people worshipped and how church reading was to be understood & had power to influence domestic and foreign politics by offering or withholding support for the ruler
- How stable and influential was the church in this period?
- Formed its own state with its own laws and system & privileges for clergy
- 10,000 clergy, & 35,000 secular clergy
- Not very stable = little priests for many parishes (some would work at as many as 5) and they were very under paid £15 a year - compared to £500 a year for bishops
- This lead to worse quality worship
- Crimes commited by priests would also tarnish its reputation
- Formed its own state with its own laws and system & privileges for clergy
- How stable and influential was the church in this period?
- Henry would take advantage of the most talented bishops to serve him in government. The most senior churchmen eg archbishop of canterbury and more became some of the kings closest friends and loyal advisors
- Did the church help or hinder Henry in his gov of the kingdom?
- The pope would excommunicate those who rebelled against henry
- The pope at the time was one of the first to recognise his claim to the throne
- Through all this henry could exploit the churches power
- The king and the pope has a Erastian relationship (mutually benefiticial)
- Did the church help or hinder Henry in his gov of the kingdom?
- Church as an instrument of control
- Because of the great chain of being henry was 'gods representative of earth' so many threat would be seen as a challenge to god - however those kings who died in battle was thought to be a indication of gods displeasure with the king
- Henry saw from Richard iii that a unscrupulous monarch could be overthrown
- With the help of the church his subjects would quickly turn obedient if he and his bishops could insert correct degree of authority
- Henry recognised that the church was important to maintain social stability
- The renaissance was seen as the rebirth of art and architecture & letters.
- The influence of the Renaissance
- Henry also himself encouraged artists, musicians, and poets (he established a royal library)
- He commissioned Polydore Vergil to write a history of England.
- Henry also wanted to make the English the centre of cultural activity in england
- He commissioned Polydore Vergil to write a history of England.
- However, with the invention of the printing press- (brought to england in 1476) and Edward iv allowing texts to be mass printed to the public it meant that the population of those educated grew
- This was the beginning of the standardisation of the English language
- Henry also used this to his advantage to spread propaganda to justify his succession to the throne and denouncing the rule of Richard iii
- Henry also himself encouraged artists, musicians, and poets (he established a royal library)
- In England it took a form of humanism and the return of studying original texts, however because literacy was considered a thing of higher class this was restricted to benefit the upper class
- The influence of the Renaissance
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