Developmental account attributing significance to events of the 1530's.
By constructing an account of events before, during and after the 1530's assess the significance of political power in England and Wales. You should refer to developments of approximately 200 years.
In order to attribute significance to an event, it is important to consider events alongside other developments over a long period of time. A single event can be identified as a trend, turning point, dead-end, continuity, false dawn, shooting star or discontinuity. In this essay I will identify lines of development within the essay in order to aid me in attributing significance to political power in England and Wales. They will be Religion, Powers of Parliament, Authority of Monarchy, Union of England and Wales as well as Admin, law and finance. I will start with Religion.
Religion
It could be argued that there was a trend in leading the Monarch to being head of state. Events contributing to this pace of change, at about 1517, Martin Luther, a German Monk, went to Rome and found they had women and children who were over nourished while others were hungry; the system was too hierarchical. Luther disliked this, the Bible being in Latin, and the Pope charging for indulgences (absolution of sin) and so printed 95 Reasons why the Church was wrong. He was then excommunicated by the Church and founded Protestantism. In 1518-20, Henry 8th defended Roman Catholicism and defended the Holy Sacraments against Luther's Protestation's and as a result of this he is made defender of the faith causing Luther's print to be banned. This was a trend in increasing the political stance in England, Henry being made protector of the faith. England at this point was still strongly Roman Catholic.
It could be argued that there was turning point in the religious line of development when England became a Unified Independent state. 1533, the English refor...