History A-Level
Reformation ideas and their transmission
What Reformation ideas and their transmission means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Reformation ideas and their transmission
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Protestant ideas entered England through trade, printing and Cambridge scholars, but remained a minority before 1547.
Topics that use Reformation ideas and their transmission
- Religious changes, 1509–88 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
Related terms
- Court faction and royal patronage
- Institutional versus doctrinal change
- Official reform under Edward VI
- Popular religion and conformity
- Popular response to religious change
- Protestant and Catholic reform
- Puritan pressure and Elizabethan settlement
- Recusancy, mission and noble protection
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