History A-Level
Institutional versus doctrinal change
What Institutional versus doctrinal change means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Institutional versus doctrinal change
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Between 1529 and 1536 royal supremacy, dissolution of smaller monasteries and attack on papal authority altered structures, yet doctrine and much ritual survived.
Topics that use Institutional versus doctrinal change
- Religious changes, 1509–88 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
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