english romanticism Archives - ToursMaps.com ® http://toursmaps.com/tag/english-romanticism Tue, 28 Mar 2017 15:12:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.9 English Puritanism http://toursmaps.com/english-puritanism.html http://toursmaps.com/english-puritanism.html#respond Wed, 11 May 2016 08:40:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=203865 As a reform movement, Puritanism had it roots in the earth-shaking German and Swiss reformations of Martin Luther, Ulrich Zwingli, and John Calvin. These three religious figures spoke out against the papal abuse of authority and were in favor of a return to the biblical understanding of church and church governance. King Henry VIII broke formal ties with the Roman Catholic Church because the papacy was unwilling to annul his marriage to Catherine of Aragon, his Spanish wife, who had been unable to give him an heir. In 1534, the English Parliament, in the Act of Supremacy, established the Church

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