The Tudor Period: Religious Change And Reformation

Question 1: Theme: Religious Change and reformation The Tudor period is often known for its religious changes. Religion was changed dramatically through the Tudor period from Catholicism to Henry Catholicism to Protestantism to Catholicism to Protestantism. With each new monarch to the throne, England was on edge as to what the new religion would be. The foundations that led to such a change in religion began with the reigns of the two Tudor Henrys. Through the Henrys, the religious power began to shift from the pope of the Catholic Church to the English monarch because of the obvious flaws with the Catholic Church. It is possible that change of religion would have been slower if the pope and the Catholic Church had not had, in some circumstances, …show more content…
Through the Act in Restraint of Appeals in 1533, England was now considered an empire. This meant the king could not be skirted around. The king was the ultimate power. It was also through the idea of imperial kingship that made the kings and queens to go to war against France and other European rivals such as Spain; they wanted to conquer to expand the power of England over the European World and eventually the entire world. Imperial kingship is also Renaissance period because the kings were looking at Ancient figures such as Achilles to be a guide in how to lead. Although kingship had been around far before this, the Renaissance gave it a name and it also gave justifications as to why a country should be run as an imperial kingship. One aspect that no one can deny is that the Tudors were very smart. They were able to cement their family name to the throne for 118 years which was quite achievement because they were involved with wars with France and Spain. The Tudors were able to control the religion in England, and have people announce their loyalty towards the kingship. The Tudors were able to make a broken country into a united