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Beginning in the 13th century, the university gained charters from the crown, but the religious foundations in Oxford town were suppressed during the Protestant Reformation. In 1571 an act of Parliament led to the incorporation of the university. The university’s statutes were codified by its cha...
Facts About The Tudors 1. It Takes Two, Baby It all began with one couple: Edmund Tudor and Lady Margaret Beaufort. In fact, Lady Margaret Beaufort is the stuff of historical novelist dreams. As a child during England’s Wars of the Roses between the Lancasters and the Yorks, she gave...
A religious reform movement, the Protestant Reformation, swept through Europe in the 1500s. It led to the development of a branch of Christianity known as Protestantism.
Monfasani, John. "A Description of the Sistine Chapel under Pope Sixtus IV."Artibus et Historiae4.7 (1983): 9–18. Print. Ostrow, Steven F. "Art and spirituality in Counter-Reformation Rome: the Sistine and Pauline chapels in S. Maria Maggiore." Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press...
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Since Mary was a Catholic, and Dudley a Protestant who had benefited materially from the Reformation, he was necessarily more friendly to Elizabeth. For example, Edward VI had given Dudley Hatfield House, which was currently Elizabeth’s residence. Dudley graciously returned it to her in ...
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During the Reformation, Martin Luther pushed for the Protestant canon to distinguish between books that the Jews had considered canonical and the other books that had been used by Christians along the way. These other books are called the deuterocanon (“second canon”), and were originally push...