history-tudor s1, 1.4
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- Section 1: 1.4 Abuses and criticisms of the Church
- pgs 27-32
- the church in 1529
- pilgrimages
- Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
- tales told by pilgrims going to Becket's shrine
- Lollardy mentioned in the text
- desire to pray to shrines / relics
- church exploited devotion of pilgrims
- revealed as fraud / cons as a financial venture in 1529
- Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
- Simony, nepotism, absenteeism, and other practices
- motivated by desire to increase wealth
- simony
- sale of a church title
- some priests sold their titles to those willing to pay most
- nepotism
- promoting members of one's family rather than based on ability
- eg. Cardinal Wolsey's son
- failure to pay tithes resulted in church courts
- mortuary fees- fees to priests on burial of a person
- anti-clericalism
- H's gov. looking for means to criticise church
- eg. Fish's attack on the church
- argues for royal supremacy
- criticisms often came from merchants or those in trade
- they were literate and wanted relig books etc
- merchants in cloth trade had links to new ideas in the Netherlands
- new ideas were critical of the church
- case of Richard Hunne
- criticised the church
- priest asked for his son's christening robe as a mortuary fee, Hunne refused
- Hunne arrested- search found a Lollard Bible- Hunne trialed for heresy
- behaviour of clergy
- not all priests & monks behaved well- vows of chastity broken
- laziness, greed, sexual relations etc.
- but only a minority
- tried in church courts rather than king's court
- 'benefit of clergy'
- not all priests & monks behaved well- vows of chastity broken
- absenteeism
- priests hold the right to more than one parish
- priest would be absent from one or more parish but still keep its income
- Simony, nepotism, absenteeism, and other practices
- motivated by desire to increase wealth
- simony
- sale of a church title
- some priests sold their titles to those willing to pay most
- nepotism
- promoting members of one's family rather than based on ability
- eg. Cardinal Wolsey's son
- failure to pay tithes resulted in church courts
- mortuary fees- fees to priests on burial of a person
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