Week of March 20-24

Monday- absent

Chapter 17 Notes (continued)

Tara's Notes:

Response to Martin Luther's Theses 

  • Pope Leo X excommunicated Luther
  • Holy Roman Emperor Charles V issued the Edict of Worms
    • Declared Luther an outlaw and heretic and ordered his works to be burned 
    • Prince Frederick the Wise of Saxony disobeyed the emperor and hid Luther for a year in Wart burg Castle 

Peace of Augsburg 

  • After years of fighting between German Catholic and Lutheran (Protestant) princes, Charles V defeated the Lutheran princes 

England Becomes Protestant 

  • England broke away for political and personal reason, unlike Luther and Germany 
  • King Henry VII feared that his wife Catherine of Aragon was to old to bear a son for him which would leave no male heir to the throne which would lead to a civil war 
    • They only had 1 child, a daughter Mary
  • King Henry VIII wanted to divorce Catherine and have his marriage annulled by the Pope, who refused to do so  

Catherine of Aragon 

  • Daughter of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain

The Reformation Parliament 

  • Upset with the Pope, King Henry VIII took matters into his own hands 
  • King Henry VIII called Parliament into session to pass a set of laws that took the Pope's power away in England 
  • King Henry VIII married Anne Boleyn and shortly thereafter, Parliament okay-ed his divorce from Catherine 

The Act of Supremacy 

  • Called on people of England to recognize his divorce and marriage to Anne Boleyn 
  • Parliament recognized King Henry VIII as the "supreme Head of the Church of England"

Anne Boleyn's Troubles 

  • Anne gave birth to Elizabeth and then had 3 miscarriages
  • King Henry VIII started courting Jane Seymour and had to find a way to end hi marriage to Anne 
  • He charged her with treason which included adultery, incest, and plotting to kill the king 
  • Anne was found guilty and was beheaded 

Jane Seymour 

  • Married King Henry VIII shortly after Anne's death 
  • Jane did bear Henry a son- Edward 
  • Jane died 2 weeks later 
  • King Henry married 3 more times but had no more children 

King Henry VIII Video

Tuesday- King Henry VIII Video 

Wednesday-

Chapter 17 Notes (continued)

  • King Edward VI
    • In power from 1547-1553
    • King Henry VIII died in 1547 and each of his three children (King Edward VI, Queen Mary I, and Queen Elizabeth I) took the throne one after the other
    • King Edward, son of Jane Seymour, was first and was just nine when he took the throne and died six years later due to sickness
    • Edward was led by a lot of advisers who were strong Protestants and thus passed a lot of laws strengthening the religion in England 
  • Queen Mary I
    • In power from 1553-1558
    • Mary was the daughter of Catherine of Aragon 
    • First Queen of England 
    • She was a Catholic who returned the English Church to the rule of the pope 
    • Her efforts met with considerable resistance within England 
    • Mary had many Protestants executed and was called Bloody Mary as a result 
  • Queen Elizabeth I
    • In power from 1558-1603
    • Restored Protestantism to England
    • In 1559, Parliament set up the Church of England, or Anglican Church, with Elizabeth as its head
    • This was the only legal church in England 
    • Elizabeth did make some deals to appease both Protestants and Catholics when forming the Anglican Church 
    • She was queen when England began thinking about colonizing America 

Thursday-

Chapter 17 Notes (continued)

  • John Calvin and Calvinism 
  • The Anabaptists
    • As more people read the bible and started interpreting the bible for themselves, more offshoots of Christianity appeared
    • Believed only adults should be baptized 
    • The word "Anabaptists" comes from a Greek word meaning "baptize again"
    • Believed in separation of church and state 
    • Did not believe in fighting wars
    • Persecuted by both Catholics and Lutherans 
    • Became the forerunners of the Mennonites and the Amish
    • Their teachings influenced Quakers and Baptists, groups who split from the Anglican Church 
  • The Catholic Reformation
    • It is important to remember that most Europeans remained devout Roman Catholics during this time 
    • The Jesuits were a Catholic group that focused on three activities:
      • 1. They founded superb schools throughout Europe
      • 2. The Jesuits worked to convert non-Christians to Catholicism, so they sent out missionaries around the world 
      • 3. They worked to stop the spread of Protestantism 
  • Council of Trent
    • 1563
    • The Church's interpretation of the Bible was final
      • Any Christian who substituted his or her own interpretation was a heretic 
    • Christians needed faith and good works for salvation
      • They were not saved by faith alone, as Luther argued 
    • The Bible and Church tradition were equally powerful authorities for guiding Christian life 
    • Indulgences were valid expressions of faith
      • The false selling of indulgences was banned 
  • The Legacy of the Protestant Reformation 
    • Religious and Social Effects of the Reformation
      • Catholic Church is unified, Protestant denominations grow
      • Catholics and Protestants create schools throughout Europe
      • Status of women does not improve
    • Political Effects of the Reformation
      • Catholic Church's power lessens, power of monarchs and states grow
      • Reformation's questioning of beliefs brings intellectual ferment
      • Late 18th century sees a new intellectual movement- the Enlightenment 

Friday- no school 

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