Henry VIII and the Church - The State of the Church and Monasteries before the Reformation

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Anti-clericalism

Criticism of the clergy

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Anti-papalism

Criticism of the Pope

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Erastianism

The belief that the King should be in charge of the Church

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Behavior of the clergy

Priests and monks not obeying the laws of the Church

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Heresy

Questioning the practice and rituals of the Church

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Absenteeism

Being absent from their parish or diocese

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Pluralism

A priest was in charge of more than one parish

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Simony

The sale of an ecclesiastical title

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Colet's Sermon

Sermon denouncing the state of the clergy in 1513

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Indulgences

Could lessen the time spent in purgatory

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Relics

Objects supposedly connected to a saint but oftern fake

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Hunne Case

A merchant tailor murdered by the clergy

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Chaucer - Canterbury Tales

Popular story highlighting abuses of the church

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Eamon Duffy

Suggested evidence for anti-clericalism was an optical illusion

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Benefit of the clergy

Being tired in the Church court rather than the King's court

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Criticism of the Pope

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Anti-papalism

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The belief that the King should be in charge of the Church

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Priests and monks not obeying the laws of the Church

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Card 5

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Questioning the practice and rituals of the Church

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Henry VIII and the Church - The State of the Church and Monasteries before the Reformation