The English Reformation refers to the series of events in sixteenth-century England by which the church in
England broke away from the authority of the
Pope and the
Roman Catholic Church. These events were part of a wider process, the European
Protestant Reformation, a religious and political movement which affected the practice of Christianity across the whole of Europe during this period. Many factors contributed to the ferment: the decline of
feudalism and the rise of
nationalism, the rise of the
common law, the invention of the
printing press, the transmission of new knowledge and ideas not only amongst scholars but amongst merchants and artisans also; but the story of why and how the different states of Europe adhered to different forms of Protestantism, or remained faithful to Rome or allowed different regions within states to come to different conclusions (as they did) is specific to each state and the causes are not agreed.
See more at Wikipedia.org...
Free Download Now!
