Henry was the rightful heir to the throne and was named Prince of Whales in 1503. ... The king married Anne of Cleves as part of Cromwell's plan for a Protestant union with German princes, but divorced her after only six months. ... He forced his ministers to pay extreme penalties for his own mistakes, and summarily executed many with little excuse. ...
Pope Clement VI's "luxurious court and gorgeous retinue were those of a secular prince, not a prince of the church- (Kelly 220). ... Chaucer first describes a Prioress bedecked with beads, brooches and other trinkets who makes sure her little dogs are fed with "roasted flesh, or milk, or fine white bread' (151). ... In comments on medieval men's and women's convents, they are described as differing little from public brothels (Durant 20). ...
Although scholars continue to disagree on points of detail, most agree that the Protestant Reformation drew relatively little from the civilization of the Renaissance, that indeed in certain basic respects Protestant principles were completely at odds with the major assumptions of most Renaissance humanists. ... The Protestant converted German princes were in a desperate search of sovereignty. ...
Landowners who rented land to peasants started getting a little greedy and began collecting more rent for their land. ... The people that feared them can be broken down into four groups: the princes, Catholics, Lutherans, and even the non-religious... ( Knox ) The princes feared the Anabaptists, because of their political radicalism. ...
Cromwell had little sympathy with the disobedience of monastic houses, which had long ago ceased to embody the ascetic ideal. ... Cromwell had boasted that he would make Henry VIII the richest prince in Christendom; and the monasteries, with their direct dependence on the pope and their cosmopolitan organizations, were obstacles to that absolute authority of the national state. ... He negotiated the king's marriage to Anne of Cleves as a means of securing the North German princes as allies against the Catholic Holy Roman emperor Charles V. ...
There are many things that shaped and molded Europe's great history, but religion really tops the list of these factors. From the rise of Christianity, to the Reformation, Europe goes through various events that form it as it is today. When the might of the Roman Empire reached all the way to t...
Instead of relying on feudal charges for the bulk of their military power, Renaissance princes employed mercenaries in increasing numbers. ... "The "Ninety-Five Theses outlined his theological argument against the use of indulgences, which were based on the notion that Christianity is fundamentally a phenomenon of the inner world of human beings and had little or nothing to do with the outer world, such as temporal punishments. ...
He was a theologically conversant, a humanistically trained prince with facility in Latin who both read and wrote theological works and discussed them with his counsellors, and who attended mass daily. ... As long as the king opposed Luther, there was little chance that English reformers would amount to anything more than a bunch of powerless voices from intellectuals haunting Cambridge taverns. ...
