Topic 4 Reformation

• Sir Henry VIII

  • six wives in an attempt to have an heir. Edward VI

  • Mary I (bloody mary)

    • killed lots of top officials to bring Catholicism back to England

  • Elizabeth I (ruled 1558-1603)

    • Anglican

    • Poets started talking about Britannia. William Shakespeare

• The Reformation was quite bloody because every time the new ruler went from catholic to Anglican, the higher-ups that followed the other religion were eliminated.

• Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

  • 1573, matriculated at Trinity Collge, Cambridge

  • trained as a lawyer

  • 1576, Gray’s Inn

  • 1577, France, the embassy of Sir Amias Paulet

  • 1579, his father’s death, back to Gray’s Inn

  • 1581, Parliament

  • 1584, “A letter of advice to the Queen,” urging moderation in religious policies

    • This put him on bad terms with the queen and basically locked him out of getting to work for the government

  • Bacon’s opposition to Elizabeth’s Subsidy Bill in 1593 undercut his political career. He remained in the shadow until her death, despite his acknowledged legal skills

  • 1601, Earl of Essex was tried and executed for treason; Bacon took park, showing no reservation or mercy. essentially killing his friend

• 1605, Gunpowder plot by Catholics

  • attempting to blow up the parliament building while higher-ups are in there, fails because moisture gets into the gunpowder.

  • The Advancement of Learning (1605)

    • dedicated to James I

    • brings up Hermes which shows that he has been looking into alchemy and chemistry

  • wanted the power of the king in order to make a society that would execute his vision of philanthropy

restoration - restore god’s vision of the world

Francis wanted to restore Adam’s world