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"Explain the English Reformation in one sentence" is a pretty tall order, but it seems reasonable to wonder whether Clement VII would have allowed the annulment
by defen 6y ago
"Explain the English Reformation in one sentence" is a pretty tall order, but it seems reasonable to wonder whether Clement VII would have allowed the annulment if Catherine of Aragon's nephew hadn't just sacked Rome and taken Clement prisoner.
- Nasrudith 6y agoThe geography and logistics were wrong for either a successful covert assassination misson or installing/supporting an anti-pope to oust for one. The reason Anglicism lasted was because it was a large island such that it was hard to both have a navy capable of overcoming it, raising an army large enough to defeat it, and transport said large army after the naval fight. Anglicism was a branch born of cynical political power struggles and everyone knows it.