Teaching Activities

1. Draw up a table in two columns. In one column list the arguments used by Henry VIII in favour of a divorce from Catherine. In the other column list the arguments against a divorce used by Catherine and/or the Pope.
2. Draw up a table for the laws passed in 1533–1534.

LAWS	Summary of what it said	Its significance
(list of Acts passed by Parliament, 1533–1534)

3. Draw up a timeline for the story of the dissolution of the monasteries, covering the years 1536–1540. At what point in the story did the closure of ALL the monasteries become inevitable?
4. Compare the religious beliefs and attitudes of King Henry VIII:
   (a) in the 1520s after he had written his book defending the Pope and had been rewarded with the title ‘Fidei Defensor’
   (b) in the late 1530s when the political Reformation had been achieved
   (c) in the mid-1540s after the publication of the King’s Book and his marriage to Catherine Parr.
5. Summarise the effects of the political Reformation of 1529–1536 in terms of
   (a) the powers of Parliament
   (b) the power of the King
   (c) the King’s finances
   (d) Henry VIII’s foreign policy
   (e) Lutheranism in England.