Page:Church and State under the Tudors.djvu/14

This page has been proofread, but needs to be validated.

X

CHURCH AND STATE UNDER THE TUDORS

	date	page
Ideal of the Papacy	—	17
Development of its Power	—	18
The Church in England—the Daughter of the Church of Rome	—	19
Papal Power in England—Not less than elsewhere, but greater	—	20
Depression of the Papacy after Boniface VIII.—Anti-papal Legislation of the Plantagenets and subsequent Kings coincident with it	—	21
Papal Power considerable throughout it—Illustrations of this	—	22
Reign of Richard II. (Wycliffe)	—	29
Statute of Præmunire	1393	30
Reign of Henry IV	—	31
He hangs an Archbishop, and is not censured	1405	32
Council of Pisa	1409	33
Reign of Henry V.—Council of Constance—Election of Martin	1414	34
⁠V.—Revival of the Papacy—Its Effect in England	1417	34
Dean Hook's Theory	—	36
Church in England Papal throughout	—	37
The Anti-papal Legislation	—	38
The Relation of the English Clergy to the Papacy and the Crown respectively	—	39
The Papal Power in France and elsewhere—Social and Moral Influence of the Clergy	—	40
CHAPTER III REIGN OF HENRY VIII
Characteristics of the Tudor Times—General Ferment of Ideas	—	44
Conditions under which Henry VIII.'s Statesmen worked	—	45
Peculiarities of the Reformation in England—Thomas Cromwell	—	46
What he learnt from Wolsey	—	48
His Aims	—	49
The Præmunire— Its Effect on the Clergy and the Laity respectively	—	50
Character of Henry VIII.	—	51
King-worship in the Sixteenth Century	—	53
Low Moral Standard of the Time	—	54
Position of the Church at the Accession of Henry VIII.	—	55

This article is issued from Wikisource. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.