A level History

Henry VIII: Authority, nation and religion

Section 1: Henry VIII and the quest for international influence

• Henry’s foreign policy aims 1509–11
• War against France and Scotland 1512–13
• England at Peace 1514–22
• Sidelined? England’s foreign policy 1522–29
• The Divorce and foreign policy
• The Search for a Protestant alliance 1539–40

Section 2: Structure of government

• The Rise of Thomas Wolsey
• Wolsey as Cardinal and Papal legate
• Wolsey as Lord Chancellor – the government of England 1509–29
• Relations with nobility and Parliament
• Wolsey, Parliament and attempts to raise revenue
• The Fall of Wolsey 1529–30

Section 3: Henry’s changing relations with the Catholic Church

• The King’s Great Matter
• Attempts to obtain an annulment
• From divorce to Royal Supremacy
• The role of key individuals
• Enforcing the Reformation
• Ten Articles and Six Articles

Section 4: The Dissolution of the Monasteries

• The Visitations and the Valor Ecclesiasticus of 1535
• The dissolution of the smaller monasteries, 1536
• The Pilgrimage of Grace
• The dissolution of the larger monasteries
• Faction and political infighting in Henry's Court
• Henry VIII – authority and religion