Shakespeare A to Z | The Church
The Church of England was often referred to in Shakespeare’s time as the established church of the new religion, Anglicanism. These names reflected the manner in which the church’s founding had occurred. Disagreements over the nature of the church and its authority resulted in executions and assassination plots and eventually led to civil war.
THE PROTESTANT REFORMATION. The Church of England was established by King Henry VIII in 1534, when he severed ties with the Roman Catholic pope Clement VII, who refused to grant Henry an annulment* of his marriage to Katherine of...
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