History - Crime and Punishment - Early Modern - Religion

1500-1700:

Religion:

Background:

• Early 16th Century: England was under the Catholic Church, followed the Pope in Rome
• Same as hundreds of years before
• Different religious beliefs = heretic, could be punished or executed for heresy

Henry VIII: 1509-1547

• 1534: Pope refused his divorce
• Split from the Catholic Church and became head of the Church in England
• Anyone who refused to accept the split from Rome was executed
• Used Protestant ideas to allow his divorce but was a Catholic at heart

Edward:…