Category
page 116th-century anti-Protestantism
Spanish Inquisition
ecclesiastical court system under the control of the kings of Spain (1478-1834)
Diet of Worms
diet
Pierre Gringore
French writer
Exsurge Domine
1520 papal bull by Pope Leo X threatening to excommunicate Martin Luther in response of his 95 Theses
Babington Plot
1586 plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth
Regnans in Excelsis
papal bull to excommunicate Queen Elisabeth I
Ridolfi plot
plot to assasinate Queen Elizabeth I
Throckmorton Plot
attempt by English Catholics to depose Elizabeth I