The Pope was not in absolute power or was the head of the Catholic Church anymore, the King was and that was Henry VIII.
By the second half of the 1500's Henry was dead. He had weakened the Church and allowed its protestant enemies to grow stronger, whist the friends of the papacy were to rally under his daughter Mary with a view to rejoining the papal coalition.
But the most important impact Henry was to have was to stop or prevent the English from attending the English Clergy from attending the Council of Trent! It is interesting to see that even under his eldest daughter English Bishops appear to have stayed away! This prevented the English Church from lapsing in to schism as the continental catholics did under the leadership of the papacy!
The main industries were cloth and farming.
There relationship was harsh and did not like each other at all! Sadly but it is true..
The land was divided into huge counties... East Anglia Scotland the whole of the north wales London and Essex
it has grown over 400% since 1500's and earlier
They were conquered by the Spanish in the 1500s
The invention of the movable type writing press.
The invention of the movable type writing press.
the spanish dominated the 1500s
mid 1500
Bezant was the currency of Constantinople in the 1500s.
The Pope was not in absolute power or was the head of the Catholic Church anymore, the King was and that was Henry VIII. By the second half of the 1500's Henry was dead. He had weakened the Church and allowed its protestant enemies to grow stronger, whist the friends of the papacy were to rally under his daughter Mary with a view to rejoining the papal coalition. But the most important impact Henry was to have was to stop or prevent the English from attending the English Clergy from attending the Council of Trent! It is interesting to see that even under his eldest daughter English Bishops appear to have stayed away! This prevented the English Church from lapsing in to schism as the continental catholics did under the leadership of the papacy!
The Pope was not in absolute power or was the head of the Catholic Church anymore, the King was and that was Henry VIII. By the second half of the 1500's Henry was dead. He had weakened the Church and allowed its protestant enemies to grow stronger, whist the friends of the papacy were to rally under his daughter Mary with a view to rejoining the papal coalition. But the most important impact Henry was to have was to stop or prevent the English from attending the English Clergy from attending the Council of Trent! It is interesting to see that even under his eldest daughter English Bishops appear to have stayed away! This prevented the English Church from lapsing in to schism as the continental catholics did under the leadership of the papacy!