1. The Reformation in Europe
A Sea Change in World History

2. Why did it start?
Corruption of the Catholic Church (Part I)
simony
favors for friends
indulgences
sexual relations
material vs spiritual goals
“As soon as the coin in the coffer rings, the soul from purgatory springs.”

3. Why else did it start?
• Crusades
• Black Plague
• Humanism and the temporal world
• European exploration

4. I’m a monk and
Leader of the Reformation: a professor
Martin Luther
• anger about indulgences
• 95 Theses (1517)
• salvation only through faith
• interpreting the Bible*
• opposed professional priesthood
• the printing press
• his goals

5. Impact of his Ideas
• big picture: religious revolutions throughout Europe!
• creation of new faiths
• Church services delivered in vernacular
• Bible is translated
• congregations sings
• peasant revolts!
• Counter Reformation

6. Consequences for Luther
• recant or else!
• EXCOMMUNICATION!!!
• friends in high places...

7. Reformation Part II (late 1520s)

8. Why did it start?
• “Defender of the Faith”
• political instead of theological
• King Henry VIII and Catharine
• the Pope and Charles V
• Act of Supremacy

9. Effects of the English Reformation
• creation of the Church of England It’s good to be
the king!
• guess who is the leader?
• EXCOMMUNICATION!
• key similarities/differences with Catholicism
• economic and political impact (cha ching!)

10. Henry’s Wives
imprisoned beheaded child birth
annulment beheaded outlived the king!
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Henry VIII on the dating scene
king of divorce
• irony www.pbs.org/wnet/sixwives/meet/
ca_handbook_main.html