reformation

The Concordat of Bologna, signed in 1516, was a cornerstone of French church policy prior to the Revolution. The French monarchy was able to negotiate for autonomy within its own territory on ecclesiastical issues such as tithing and the right of French church officials to appeal to Rome, while...

The challenge is have Queen Katherine, first wife of Henry VIII, produce a surviving son (maybe have Henry's OTL children by his other wives be born from her) but England still break ties with the Papacy and become protestant before 1650. Withouth a dynastic change or revolution (so no overtrow...

How do you think European (and later American) history could have progressed if Martin Luther, John Calvin, and other Reformers would have been butterflied away? When encountering these debates on online forums, I've read pretty mixed-bag responses. A Catholic for example told me, that a Moon...

What if, a string of Popes in Rome that are so corrupt, so incompetent, and does something so stupid (Like maybe making the Roman Papacy hereditary) that they shatter the view of the Roman Papacy. Later when the Protestant Reformation happens, the Catholic world just shatters, and New Antipopes...

During his time at the University of Erfurt, Martin Luther was initially a law student, but switched to studying theology and philosophy. What if he continued studying law and became a lawyer instead of a friar?

Many historical dramas set during the early reign of Henry VIII (The Tudors, Wolf Hall, Carlos, King and Emperor - even Borgia references it IIRC) focus on the fact that Thomas Wolsey had ambitions to become pope. But them (and most history books) are silent about just exactly Wolsey planned to...

As we know Henry IX of England and Ireland son Henry VIII Tudor and Katherine of Aragon was one of England's greatest and learned kings. Being forced on to the throne at 17 after the untimely death of his father, he remained a defender of Catholicism while also allowing Protestants who swore...

So i know this could bring up some heated debate but i find this is a really interesting topic. i have already looked for other threads on it but found nothing. this was very much inspired by the son of Aragon timeline with the reformed Catholics of England and Denmark though with a twist for...

Hello, all! I have been lurking on this forum for about 5 years now and have never posted anything - until today! I have been working on a timeline for several years now, and I want to turn it into a book, but before I started, I wanted to get some feedback from the most historically...

With no PoDs prior to 1531, how different can the Reformation in Switzerland in the short term? What I’m specifically wondering here is, can the theology of Double Predestination and Election be significantly reduced in influence during the 16th Century? Suppose, for example, that Zwingli...

IOTL, the Cologne War of the 1580's was a major religiously-motivated conflict that occured in the region of the northern Rhine river basin in Germany. It sprung as the Archbishop-Elector of Cologne, Gebhard of Waldburg, married a protestant woman and then announced a plan to secularize the...

FIRE INTO LIGHT An Alternate Bábism/Islamic Reformation TL As to those who have debarred themselves from the Revelation of God, they have indeed failed to understand the significance of a single letter of the Qur’án, nor have they obtained the slightest notion of the Faith of Islám, otherwise...

Surprise! Yeah, Martin Luther's patron did have kids (that part almost everyone knows), but after Margarethe of Austria rebuffed Friedrich's suit for her hand, he decided to make himself happy (and screw the politics). He married (in secret, since it would've been morganatic) a lady at court...

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Last Grand Master of Teutonic Order in Prussia, Albrecht Hohenzollern, converted to Lutheranism and secularised Prussian branch of the Order in 1525 and ruled the Duchy as vassal of his uncle Sigismund the Old, and then cousin Sigismund Augustus until 1568. Albrecht was ardent Lutheran and soon...

AHC: Have Norway remain Catholic throughout the reformation https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olav_Engelbrektsson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olav_Engelbrektsson https://snl.no/Olav_Engelbrektsson

“The English court held their collective breaths as both the Prince and Princess of Wales fell ill sometime during March of 1502, probably with the sweating sickness that was commonly found in England at the time. Prayers were said, doctors were summoned, and then early in April, both would...

Niccolò Machiavelli in the chapter VI of 'The Prince' pointed out that the greatest issue for Friar Girolamo Savonarola was the absence of a personal army able to support him when nobody else would. I was thinking to this when I remembered about a Sepâh. You know what I want to ask. Given that...

A Grey Dawn: Nine Day Queen No More Prologue: A Concatenation of Circumstance The year 1553 was a strange one in English history as circumstances conspired to place England under the rule of a woman for the first time since the days of Boadicea. Lady Jane Grey, the daughter-in-law of John...

I've lately been trying to find information about the Boleyn family's library, especially what Anne might have read and perhaps owned. My biggest problem is that while there are seven surviving books( going by what Prof. Ives says) of hers, only the French Bible by Jacques Lefèvre d'Etaples is...