These actions were crimes in Tudor times. The 16th century saw the start of the Protestant Reformation in Europe. Protestant ideas began to spread to England and Wales in the 1520s, influencing ...

but he had captured the imagination of many in Catholic Europe. By the mid-16th century, two competing ideologies -- one Catholic, the other a burgeoning Protestantism -- warred for supremacy.

These actions were crimes in Tudor times. The 16th century saw the start of the Protestant Reformation in Europe. These Protestant ideas began to spread to England and Wales in the 1520s and ...