Ap World History Dbq

1. Popular custom of the time was a mixture of religious and pagan practices. Belief in superstition and luck was common. Magic and religion were closely entwined while both Catholics and Protestants tried to curb customs which were considered immoral or dangerous. Festivals and Carnivals raised antagonistic objections, particularly among Protestants. Carnivals were abolished in Protestant areas, but continued in Catholic regions. Protestants eliminated convents and nunneries, as women were encouraged to learn the Bible for themselves. Even so, Protestant reformers believed that women should remain to subservient their husbands, or fathers if unmarried. John Calvin, Martin Luther's successor as the prominent Protestant theologian, made a powerful …show more content…
Over the course of his time Henry VIII’s pursuit of a male heir to fulfill this goal eventually contributed to the break of England from the Roman Catholic Church. King Henry VIII took matters into his own hands and severed England’s ties with the Catholic Church after condemning Catherine, his wife at the time, of having consummated her short-lived marriage with his brother Arthur . This would have nullified his own marriage. With the benediction of Archbishop Thomas Cranmer and lawyer Thomas Cromwell, King Henry professed himself Pope of a new church in 1534 identified as the Church of England. Using his Act of Supremacy, Henry’s first act was to grant himself a divorce. The Reformation had facilitated marriage into more of a civic than religious practice. The Vatican’s reluctance to grant Henry’s divorce led to the English Reformation. Henry’s subsequent marital life is quite impressive. The often described progressively gluttonous sociopath went through six wives total, beheading two of them, all the while failing to produce a healthy male heir to assume power upon his death. This is likely the fault of his own undiagnosed medical complications. Henry’s final count can be described as, divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived. After Henry’s passing, England leaned toward a Calvinist-infused Protestantism throughout Edward VI’s reign. His one son, Edward VI with his third wife Jane Seymour was king from the age of 9 until he died at age

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