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The English Reformation and Catholic Counter Reformation Chapter 1 section 4

The English Reformation and Catholic Counter Reformation Chapter 1 section 4

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• 1. granted some to nobles and high-ranking citizens securing their support for the Anglican Church.

ii. The Inquisition

1. Church court set up during the Middle Ages.

2. Goal: bring people back to the faith

3. Used secret testimony, torture, and execution to root out heresy.

4. Prepared the Index of Forbidden Books.

• a. too immoral or irreligious for Catholics

• b. Books by Luther & Calvin.

• iii. Society of Jesus (Jesuits) – 1. brought back

the Catholic faith to Africa and the Americas

– 2. educated natives

III. Persecution • Catholics and Protestants

intolerant of one another• Witch hunts

– 1450-1750 thousands of women and men died.

– Why?• People saw link between

magic and heresy.• Scapegoats- ex. Midwife

blamed for an infant death

• Where? German states, Switzerland, France, and all centers of religious conflict.

– Jews• 1516 Venice ordered Jews

to live in the ghetto• refused to convert; Luther

calls for their expulsion from Christian Lands & synagogues and books to be burned– some German princes did

expel Jews; others forced them to live in ghettos and wear a yellow badge when traveling

– 1550s many Jews migrated to Poland-Lithuania and parts of the Ottoman Empire