Over 400 years after his death, the shrine of St. Thomas Becket fell victim to the Dissolution of the Monasteries. Henry VIII seemed to take …
HENRY VIII’S TRIAL OF ST. THOMAS BECKET
Reformation
WHAT’S IN A NAME: REFORMATION IN HISTORY
The first use in the English language of ‘reformation’ to specifically refer to the religious reform movement beginning in the sixteenth century was in 1531 by William Barlow, bishop of Chichester, a supporter of the Reformation, who wrote: ‘Martyn Luther was iugged to be syngulerly chosen of god…for a dew reformacion of the hole worlde.’
MARY I AS SUPREME HEAD OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND
One issue which became emblematic of the religious tensions was the matter of the title of ‘Supreme Head of the Church of England,’ created by Henry VIII to represent his headship of the English Church rather than the Pope, and it was held as well by Edward VI. Would Mary become Supreme Head of the Church of England?
