Henry VIII and His Wives: Short Movie Presentation

• Henry VIII and the quest for international influence: relations with France, Scotland and Spain.
• The structure of government: the role of Wolsey to 1529 and his relations with King, nobility and Parliament.
• Henry’s changing relations with the Catholic Church and the break with Rome; the role of Parliament in the early stages of the Reformation; the roles of Cranmer and Cromwell.
• The Dissolution of the Monasteries: support for, and opposition to, religious change from 1529.

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