POLITICAL, PHILOSOPHICAL , AND RELIGIOUS CHANGES

DURING RENAISSANCE IN ENGLAND

POLITICAL CHANGES DURING RENAISSANCE

The government in England during this era was made up of three different bodies: the monarch, the Privy Council, and the Parliament. 1. The monarch was Queen Elizabeth. She was very powerful

and determined most of the laws of the land, but she did have to get approval from Parliament to implement taxes.

2. The Privy Council was made up of the queen's closest advisors. They would make recommendations and give her advice. When Elizabeth first became queen there were 50 members of the Privy Council. She reduced this over time until there were only 11 members by 1597.

3. Parliament had two groups. House of Lords and was made up of nobles and high

ranking church officials . House of Commons which was made up of commoners.

• The political authority of the Catholic Church had diminished due to internal conflicts.

• Feudal system discontinued.• Merchants raised their class. • humanism affect • banking system

PHILOSOPHICAL CHANGES DURING RENAISSANCE

The Main Ingredients of Medieval Philosophy

• Classical pagan philosophy (Greek, Roman versions)

• New Christian religion. • Season with a variety of Jewish and Islamic

intellectual heritages.

Philosophical changes

• Humanism• Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio. • Catholic Church • Physical characteristics of humans• Enlightenment

key characteristics

• Secular.• Mankind. • Classical antiquity.• Cultivation of aesthetic sense.(Platonism)

Writers of humanism period

• Erasmes (republic) • Sir Thomas (Utopia)• Sir Philip Sydney. (Defense of poetry)• Frances Bacon (essayist)• Marlow (dramatist) • Shakespeare.

RELIGIOUS CHANGES DURING RENAISSANCE

In the early 1500's the people of England practiced the

Roman Catholic religion.

In the years(1483 - 1546) German Martin Luther prompted a new religion called Protestantism.

MAIN DIFFERENCES CATHLOCISM

• Elizabethan Catholics believed that Church Services and the Bible should be in Latin, as it had been for 1000 years.

• Elizabethan Catholics firmly believed that Priests were the link between God and the people and that the Pope was ordained by God. They were viewed as special and expected to devote their lives to God and remain unmarried and wear elaborate robes

• Elizabethan Catholics believed that Priests and the Pope were able to forgive sins - at a price. Gifts, or indulgences, were given to the church.

• Catholics believed that Churches should be decorated as they celebrate God .

PROTESTAINTISM • Elizabethan Protestants believed that Church

Services and the Bible should be in the language of the people

• Elizabethan Protestants believed that people could find God without a priest or a Pope and that Ministers were ordinary people who should lead normal lives and wear ordinary robes

• Elizabethan Protestants believed that only

God could forgive sins

• Protestants believed that Churches should be plain allowing the people to concentrate on the sermons .