AP European History Flashcards: Protestant Reform Continues
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Huguenots
A group of French Protestants who used their religious conflict with the Catholic monarchy as a basis for challenging the crown's control of religious institutions.
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Huguenots
A group of French Protestants who used their religious conflict with the Catholic monarchy as a basis for challenging the crown's control of religious institutions.
What was the primary effect of the printing press on religious reform?
The printing press spurred religious reform and helped it to become widely established by allowing reformers' ideas and vernacular Bibles to be disseminated quickly and broadly.
How did religious disagreements lead to political challenges for monarchs?
Religious conflicts became a basis for groups like the Huguenots and Puritans to challenge the monarchs' control over religious institutions and practices.
Vernacular Bibles
Bibles translated into the common language of the people, rather than Latin, which were disseminated using the printing press to make scripture more accessible.
What was a major point of conflict between some Protestant groups and secular rulers?
Some Protestants, such as Calvinists and Anabaptists, refused to recognize the subordination of the church to the authority of the secular state.
Puritans
A group of English Protestants who challenged the monarch's control over the Church of England, seeking to purify it of what they saw as Catholic practices.
Identify two Protestant groups that rejected the state's authority over the church.
Both the Calvinists and the Anabaptists refused to recognize the subordination of the church to the secular state.
Anabaptists
A Protestant group that, along with Calvinists, was notable for refusing to recognize the subordination of the church to the secular state.
What role did technology play in the spread of the Protestant Reformation?
Protestant reformers used the printing press to rapidly disseminate their ideas, which spurred religious reform and helped it become widely established.
Why did religious beliefs and practices change so significantly from 1450 to 1648?
Beliefs changed due to the dissemination of new ideas via the printing press, leading to religious reforms that challenged traditional church authority and practices.