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The English Reformation was the series
of events in 16th century England by which
the Church of England first broke away from
the authority of the Pope and the Roman
Catholic Church.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
English Reformation
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These events were, in part, associated
with the wider process of the European Prot-
estant Reformation, a religious and political
movement which affected the practice of
Christianity across the whole of Europe dur-
ing this period. Many factors contributed to
the process: the decline of feudalism and the
rise of nationalism, the rise of the common
law, the invention of the printing press and
increased circulation of the Bible texts, the
transmission of new knowledge and ideas
amongst scholars and the upper and middle
classes. However the various phases of the
English Reformation, which also covered
Wales and Ireland, were largely drive