? starter activity

1
Any ideas what might be going on in this
picture?
? starter activity
2
Elizabeth Barton the Holy Maid of Kent lived in
Aldington (near Port Lympne Safari Park) at the
time of Henry VIII Read about her life and
highlight the things that showed she supported
the old faith. In a different colour highlight
the reasons she had to die ?Why was she so
influential?
? starter activity
3
How much opposition was there to the Reformation?

• Key words friars dissent perjury
  proscribed colporteur

? Learning objectives

• TBAT explain the nature extent of opposition to
  the Ref.
• To assess whether More was a saint or a sinner

4
? Your task

• Read about how people in the Church opposed the
  Reformation on p.108-110. For each category
  (religious orders, Fisher More) take notes on
  what they did, what happened to them and give
  them a threat rating out of five

5
Religious order

• Itinerant preachers who could spread dissent
  quickly friary next to Greenwich Palace
• Observant Houses closed down
• Friars imprisoned tortured
• 18 members of Charterhouse executed or starved to
  death
• Threat low not united

Friar
6
John Fisher, Bp of Rochester, innit

• Opposed Royal Supremacy supported Catherine
• Refused to swear Oath of Succession
• Executed
• Threat high in correspondence with Chapuys,
  CVs ambassador

7
Thomas More

• Refused to agree to Supremacy Act
• Threat high/sever well-connected respected

8
Moscow show trials, 1936-8. How similar or
different were the trials of Fisher More?
9
? Your task

• Read the two accounts of Mores life on p.109 and
  discuss the questions in the Skills Builder box.

10
? Your task

• Study the information on More on p.109-111 and
  complete a scales chart with evidence he was
  either a saint or a sinner (a man of principle or
  harsh, cruel intransigent)
• ? Include notes on what historians have said
  about his reputation and why

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Saint

• Didnt believe king had always been head of
  Church
• Respected humanist, renowned scholar Utopia
  offered a vision of a reformed Church
• More hadnt sought the Chancellorship and his
  views on the Great Matter were already known
• Tried to retire from public life Henry insisted
  he took the Oath (1534)
• Evidence against him from Sir Richard Rich was
  perjured jury rigged
• Spirited defence in court Parliament had no
  right to bind mens consciences
• Reputation for excessiveness exaggerated by
  Protestants, e..g Foxe, Book of Martyrs

12
Sinner

• Merciless persecutor of heretics
• Obvious successor to Wolsey i.e. old school
• Created index of proscribed books
• Applied full severity of Star Chamber against
  distributors of Tyndales Bible in English
  public mockery
• Reputation for saintliness exaggerated, e.g.
  Robert Bolt, Man for All Seasons

13
This House believes that Thomas More was more
sinner than saint.
14
? Extension task

• Complete a fact file on John Fisher. Include
  notes on
• His early life
• His viewson the Great Matter
• His achievements as Bishop of Rochester
• His grisly fate

15
? Homework

• Construct a plan to answer the question, Do you
  accept the view that More was a cruel man with
  little compassion for others? using Sources N,O
  P on p.112.

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How much opposition was there to the Reformation?

• Key words friars dissent perjury

? Learning objectives

• TBAT explain the nature extent of opposition to
  the Ref.