Skills focus: Source analysis skills (SAS); Historiography (H);
Causation (Ca); Change & continuity (Ch); Research &
communication(R) ; Significance (Sig)
AS Unit 2 – overview
Term 1
The Tudor Dynasty
The pre-Reformation
Church in England
Introduction
to course
Who was
Henry VII?
(R)
(H)
What was
Henry VII’s
legacy to his
son?
(Ch)
Term 2
The structure of
government: the role
of Wolsey
Henry VIII & the quest
for international
influence
Term 3
Henry’s changing
relations with
the Catholic
Church
Term 4
Dissolution of
the monasteries
How Protestant
was England by
1540?
Term 5
Revision
Term 6
Cold War / Crime
& Punishment
How did
Wolsey rise to
power under
Henry VIII
(Ca)
How did
Wolsey
maintain
power in the
period 151529?
How have
historians
viewed
Wolsey?
(H)
How can we
tell that Henry
VIII was going
to rule
differently
from his
father?
How far did
Henry VIII’ s
reign begin a
new era in
Tudor
kingship?
(SAS)
(Ch)
How
successful
were Wolsey’s
domestic
policies?
Did Wolsey
carry out
meaningful
reform of the
Church?
What was
the Church
like in preReformation
England?
(SAS)
Was Henry
motivated by
lust or
pragmatism?
(Ca)
(H)
Why did
Henry lose
faith in
Wolsey?
(Ca)
(SAS)
How and why
were the
monasteries
dissolved?
(SAS) (Ch)
(Ca)
Who were
the key
players in
sixteenth
century
Europe?
What were
the causes of
dissatisfaction
with the
Catholic
Church?
What impact
did the
Reformation in
Europe have?
(Ch)
Who opposed
the Catholic
Church in
England before
the
Reformation?
(Ca)
How
successful
was Henry’s
early
foreign
policy?
Wolsey the
peacemaker?
How
successful was
Wolsey’s
foreign policy?
How was
the attack
on the
English
Church
carried out?
How did Acts
of Parliament
secure the
break with
Rome?
How serious
was opposition
to the break
with Rome?
Why were
Boleyn &
Cromwell
executed?
How far did
1539 mark a
setback for
the
evangelical
cause? (Ch)
How
important
was religion
in foreign
affairs?
(SAS)
What do
historians say
about the
Henrician
Reformation?
(H)
How successful
was foreign
policy in the
later years?
(R)
Why did
Henry have
problems
attaining a
divorce?
What was the
role of the
Reformation
Parliament?
How
important was
Thomas
Cromwell in
introducing
the Royal
Supremacy?
Why was
1532 a
turning
point?
How can I
plan the
perfect part
b answer?
(Ca)
(R) (SAS)
The
dissolution of
smaller &
greater
monasteries
What were
the effects of
the
dissolution of
the
monasteries?
How serious
a threat was
the
Pilgrimage
of Grace?
How far had
the break
with Rome
changed the
nature of
the Church?
(Ch)
(SAS)
(Sig)
(Ch)
(Ca)
What was the
condition of
monasticism
in England in
1530?
How far
was the
Church in
need of
reform?
(SAS)
(Ca)
Why did
Henry VIII
seek an
annulment?
Why was
the Catholic
Church so
important
for ordinary
people?
Was the
dissolution
of the
monasteries
preplanned?
(H) (Ca)
Thomas More:
Saint or
Sinner?
Why was there so
little opposition to
the Royal
Supremacy?
(H)
(Ca)
How far had
Catholicism
survived in
1540?
What was the
future of
religion likely to
be after Henry?
(SAS)
How
important was
Cranmer in the
English
Reformation?
(SAS) (Ch)
(H) (Sig)