HIST1083 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Puritans, Protestantism, Roundhead
10.4.16 Anarchy in the UK: The English Revolutions (1534-1688)
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• England got sucked into Reformation→150 year struggle between different faiths
• Political and religious overlap causes struggle
• Atht the end of this period, new Anglican Church; official state church of the English; king or
queen as the head of the church
• Side effect of this civil war and revolution
o Leads to modernity
▪ Secularization, focus on innovation, trade, and expansion
• Henry VIII (1509-1547)
o Had 6 wives, told the Pope to go to hell after one of them, burnt that bridge
o Pope efuses Heds aiage aulet euest
▪ Wanted to divorce Catherine and marry Ann Bolin
o Henry splits from Catholic Church, forms Anglican Church (1534)
o Political and personal motivations
o Refusal to recognize Henry as head of church punishable by death
• Elizabeth I (1533-1603)
o Compromised: allowed private expression of religion (as long as they still paid taxes and
respected the queen)
o Still expected total loyalty as queen
o Fought Spanish in Europe & Americas
o Rise of new commercial class challenges old order
o First real steps to world empire
• Puritans
o Loose group of Radicals within Anglican Church
o For individual & family rights—little commonwealth, or state
o If strategy not pursued: damnation & destruction
o Want o purify English Church of Catholic-like ritual & hierarchy
▪ Believed in predestination
▪ Felt that Anglican church was too close to the Catholic Church
• James I (1603-1625)
o Succeeds Elizabeth I (1603)→not like her at all
o Absolutist Style
o Hated Puritans
▪ Part of the reason why they leave Purtians→Mayflower and such
o King above the Law
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