Edexcel As Unit 2 Option A1: Henry VIIIi: Authority Nation And
Religion 1509-40

Enable students to succeed in their exam with Henry VIII: Authority Nation and Religion. This study aid contains the key information that students need for Edexcel History AS Unit 2 Option A1 clearly laid out with Examiners and Essential notes. Also included are graded essays with examiner commentary on how to secure higher grades. Henry VIII: Authority Nation and Religion 1509-40 covers all the content and skills your students will need for their Edexcel AS Unit 2 Option A1 examination including: * Chapter 1: THE QUEST FOR INTERNATIONAL INFLUENCE Including - Foreign policy ambitions and aims; war and victory in France and Scotland 1513-14; early successes in diplomacy; the Hapsburg-Valois conflict; evaluating the effectiveness of foreign policy * Chapter 2:THE STRUCTURE OF GOVERNMENT
1509-29 Including - Structure of Henrys Government; the rise of Thomas Wolsey; Wolsey and the justice system; Wolsey and the strengthening of royal finances; Wolseys relationship with the King nobility and parliament; Wolsey and the Church; Wolseys fall from power * Chapter 3: CHANGING RELATIONS WITH THE CATHOLIC CHURCH Including - The annulment strategy; the Reformation Parliament; Submission of the Clergy; establishment of the Royal Supremacy and the break with Rome 1532-4 * Chapter 4: RELIGIOUS CHANGE FROM 1529 Including - Factors influencing religious change; opposition including the Pilgrimage of Grace; Thomas Cromwell and the encouragement of Protestant ideas; dissolution of the monasteries; the retreat from reform; the fall of Thomas Cromwell; was the English Reformation political
or religious? * Chapter 5: ROYAL POWER IN 1540 Including - The nature and extent of royal power * Chapter 6: EXAM SKILLS * Chapter 7: QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS * Index