The Church
The Windsor Martyrs, from John Foxe's Book of Martyrs ©
Henry VIII was initially opposed to religious reform, publishing a stinging attack on the German monk Martin Luther in 1521. In the 1530s, however, the King broke from papal authority in Rome and dissolved the monasteries, declaring himself head of the Church in England. At the end of his reign, his religious policies became closer to those of the 1510s and 1520s.
Hans Holbein the Younger (1497/8-1543)
William Warham (c.1450-1532), Archbishop of Canterbury
Hans Holbein the Younger (1497/8-1543)
John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester (c.1469-1535)
Henry VIII, King of England (1491-1547)
Assertio Septem Sacramentorum adversus Martinum Lutherum
Martin Luther (1483-1546)
Contra Henricum Regem Angliae
Henry VIII, King of England (1491-1547)
A necessary doctrine and erudition for any Christen man, set furthe by the kynges majestie of Englande &c
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